External USB Caddies?

Motleycrue05 · April 21, 2006, 12:05pm

Hi,

Does anyone know if programs can be run from a USB Caddie Drive. It uses a standard HDD and plugs into USB 2?

If so is there loss in speed etc?

Thanks

Big_B · April 21, 2006, 1:11pm

Yes. The physical location of a drive doesn’t matter. Now, you’ll only be able to run the apps installed on the drive when it’s plugged in, of course. USB2.0 transfer speeds aren’t quite at the same level as internal ATA drives. Video playback would be fine, but some disk hammering scenario like a high-end game or video editing would be less than ideal on the external USB drive.

Motleycrue05 · April 21, 2006, 2:14pm

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. When you say high end games would games like World Of Warcraft struggle?

Thanks again

Joe

system · April 23, 2006, 8:52pm

I dont know WOW but I used to play WarcraftIII from USB Hard Drive and it was working fine for me.

Big_B · April 23, 2006, 9:26pm

If it’s a game/app that hits the disk heavily, everything else being equal—the amount of RAM in particular—you’re going to have a greater delay with the external USB drive vs that same drive connected to the motherboard.

Motleycrue05 · April 24, 2006, 2:08pm

Ahh thanks Big B that has helped alot

Thankyou!