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Old 01-04-2007
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Question [Answered] USB 2.0 external hard drive
Has anyone installed a game on an external USB 2 hard drive? How well did it run? Is USB 2 fast enough?

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Hi blues,

You can still run games quite happily on USB 2.0. It's just the loading time that you may notice a drop in speed, such as BF2. At my last check, the maximum speed of a USB 2.0 SATA HDD is 40mb/s, where as an internal SATA drive at the moment supports speeds of up to 150mb/s.

EDIT: Shortly 6gb/s, but marks as answered.


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