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Castiel23 26 Nov, 2012 @ 2:21pm
Plannin to play Steam trough External HardDriveDisk USB
Im planning to play Steam via External HDD USB
My laptop is: 2.0 usb, 500 gig space, planning to buy 2TB HDD
My qeustion is: is it allright to play steam via hdd on laptop?
No problems?
Cuz im stuck with gb on hdd on my laptop
K thanks!
J Burridge
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Zef 26 Nov, 2012 @ 2:22pm 
Why?

Everything will go slower (game load times for example) and you will get worse performance since everything has to go over that usb 2.0 connection.

Why don't you get a bigger hdd for your laptop instead?
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DarkCrystalMethod 26 Nov, 2012 @ 2:29pm 
Move your non-steam stuff to the external drive?
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Castiel23 26 Nov, 2012 @ 3:09pm 
Well if i do so, whats the diff between a 2TB USB HDD and HDD for laptop (2TB) ? price category?
Thanks
Originally posted by Caelistas:
Why?

Everything will go slower (game load times for example) and you will get worse performance since everything has to go over that usb 2.0 connection.

Why don't you get a bigger hdd for your laptop instead?
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Castiel23 26 Nov, 2012 @ 3:10pm 
Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:
Move your non-steam stuff to the external drive?
Well, my laptop with all files crashed, so i bought this pc for just steam, only has steam, opera, and few pictures from my phone.. not much.. thats the point.. all the files is 100 steam games..
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Castiel23 26 Nov, 2012 @ 3:21pm 
can you tell me also how i can know which USB ports i have? How do you see it?
Originally posted by Caelistas:
Why?

Everything will go slower (game load times for example) and you will get worse performance since everything has to go over that usb 2.0 connection.

Why don't you get a bigger hdd for your laptop instead?
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Kesac 26 Nov, 2012 @ 3:28pm 
Just looking at newegg, there aren't many 2TB 2.5" internal hard drives (laptop drives) -- only one I see is $209.99 (here)[www.newegg.com] (which is comparable to a mid-range USB external). A 1TB internal drive would run under $100. (link to 1TB drives)[www.newegg.com].

However, a 1TB drive dedicated to Steam will work for a while. I installed a 3TB in my desktop for steam/games/apps, and I've used less than 200GB with 60 games installed. 1TB will store around 150-180 5GB games.

Also take into account the transfer speeds. USB 2.0 is 480MBit/second maximum transfer rate (60MByte/sec), SATA is 3.0 GBit/second (375MByte/sec)
Last edited by Kesac; 26 Nov, 2012 @ 3:31pm
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