External HDD question

[impemonk]

I'm considering putting a game (operation flashpoint) on my computer but don't have enough room or money to buy a new Internal HDD. I figured for the time being I would use my brother's external HDD and play from there. It has the firewire 800s (so close to 800mb/s). You think I would experience any performance issues such as slow down??? I mean, it's an OLLLLD game so it shouldn't be too demanding on my computer.

thanks

 

[jkresh]

it should work ok, (firewire 800 will be slower then an internal drive but fast enough for most games), it is likely that some part of it will still need to install on your c drive and in order to uninstall it you will need to have that external drive attached (also if you remove the drive and plug it back in and it changes letters you may have trouble running the game).

 

[Paperdoc]

In some tests I've seen, an external HDD connected by Firewire 800 (aka IEEE 1394b) were faster than any other connection systems, and even sometimes faster than an internal HDD. Of course, that could depend on just how super-fast your HDD is. But bottom line, Firewire 800 is not really going to limit your speed - it just might be faster than your HDD can keep up to.