Poll: external harddrives
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From my experience with playing games off of my external hard drive. It is usually slower. For example, when I did it with Just Cause 2, I couldn't even run the game on lowest graphics at a decent fps but then I tried it on my internal hard drive and it ran a lot better.
EDIT: Since you have a laptop. Your hard drive will most likely be 5400rpm. If you got one of those brick external hard drives. (the one that plugs into the wall for power) They should be 7200rpm which is faster but, I don't know if you would notice any speed up considering it has to all go through the external hard drive and then through the USB port and so on. I wouldn't expect any improvement but, it might be worth a shot.
From my experience with playing games off of my external hard drive. It is usually slower. For example, when I did it with Just Cause 2, I couldn't even run the game on lowest graphics at a decent fps but then I tried it on my internal hard drive and it ran a lot better.
EDIT: Since you have a laptop. Your hard drive will most likely be 5400rpm. If you got one of those brick external hard drives. (the one that plugs into the wall for power) They should be 7200rpm which is faster but, I don't know if you would notice any speed up considering it has to all go through the external hard drive and then through the USB port and so on. I wouldn't expect any improvement but, it might be worth a shot.
No.
Most external drives run via USB which isn't as fast internal connection like SATA. Most likely the problems with you laptop is it has a crappy graphics system or you just have lots of programs running in the background.
Most external drives run via USB which isn't as fast internal connection like SATA. Most likely the problems with you laptop is it has a crappy graphics system or you just have lots of programs running in the background.
Decent memory and processor but what about graphics card? is it an onboard graphics chip? They tend to be too weak for modern games.
Depends on the type of XHD, 'cos if it runs off the laptop's power, then it'll definitely be slower (and markedly). If it has a power source of its own, then it should be better, but by virtue of being connect via USB, performance is always going to be impaired.
And I don't think you can get SSD's large enough to be worth it. (might be wrong on that count)
And I don't think you can get SSD's large enough to be worth it. (might be wrong on that count)