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I just got a Western Digital External harddrive, and I was wondering if I would beable to put games on it and have them run the same way if they were on the internal one? The external is usb by the way.
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Yes, you can. When you are on the installation process, just change the path from C: to a folder on your external drive.
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Well I know how to go it, I was just wondering if it would run slower or anything? I had a 80gb eh that I got like two years ago, but I used it when I had a older computer and it was only usb 1.1 or whatever know I had 2.0, When I had 1.1 I couldn't even watch movies off from it, it lagged, I watched a movie of this one and it was fine. I got this harddrive because the one in my computer is only 80gb and with all the games on it it was full (like 10 games not even) so I decided to get another harddrive, and I didn't feel like getting another internal one (I know how to put it in and everything but wanted something that I could take with me if I had to.) so I got a external one.
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Nah, it will be about the same speed with USB 2.0. Possible a tad higher latency. You'll be fine.
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ok thats good. It is 500gb by the way
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nice half a tera... excellent.
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I was going to get the 1tb one but I knew 500gb was plenty so I just went with the 500gb one.
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I have a 320gb my book....I love it

I keep all my games on it cus I need to keep C: close to empty to have enough space for all my other stuff...oh yea and I got vista last week...4.1 for a performance rating xD
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Yeah same here, I have everything on my book except for programs.
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I still haven't used up my 250 gb internal from a couple of years ago. I don't understand what people put on those that fill up a terabyte. Crazy... But then, I don't do porn, so maybe that's it
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