Im looking at getting an external hard drive, just had a couple of questions,
1) Will it be able to Store and play games fine?
2) Any specific specs I should look out for? (RPM, etc)
3) Any particular brands to watch out for?
Cheers
External Hard Drives
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2LO
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Re: External Hard Drives
Im not sure if you can get this brand in External HDD's but i've heard from a few people that Western Digital HDD's are a good brand and are quite popular 
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scrapper44
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Re: External Hard Drives
Yup I have a Western Digital , so does my old man and we haven't had any problem's with them.
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Re: External Hard Drives
ive got a 150gb one i think its called a passport i run games off it , it seems to be good so far had it since Xmas
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Re: External Hard Drives
Get an external 3.5 inch enclosure and put the biggest HD in it you can find.
I just bought a dual bay with 2 x 1TB WD 7,200rpm should do me for a while, but it's only USB.
Purely just for file storage.
If you are using it as a normal HD in your system that happens to be outside your PC,
then E-SATA would be better, as USB peaks at about 30MB/s, whereas with E-SATA
the bottleneck will be the HD at around 50-70MB/s.
If your motherboard doesn't have an E-SATA port on the back, I think you can still run a SATA cable inside to a spare port?
Forget about 2.5 inch portables, they are for girls.
I just bought a dual bay with 2 x 1TB WD 7,200rpm should do me for a while, but it's only USB.
Purely just for file storage.
If you are using it as a normal HD in your system that happens to be outside your PC,
then E-SATA would be better, as USB peaks at about 30MB/s, whereas with E-SATA
the bottleneck will be the HD at around 50-70MB/s.
If your motherboard doesn't have an E-SATA port on the back, I think you can still run a SATA cable inside to a spare port?
Forget about 2.5 inch portables, they are for girls.
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Aaron
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Re: External Hard Drives
^^Heppy wrote:Get an external 3.5 inch enclosure and put the biggest HD in it you can find.
I just bought a dual bay with 2 x 1TB WD 7,200rpm should do me for a while, but it's only USB.
Purely just for file storage.
If you are using it as a normal HD in your system that happens to be outside your PC,
then E-SATA would be better, as USB peaks at about 30MB/s, whereas with E-SATA
the bottleneck will be the HD at around 50-70MB/s.
If your motherboard doesn't have an E-SATA port on the back, I think you can still run a SATA cable inside to a spare port?
Forget about 2.5 inch portables, they are for girls.
Yeah stick with the likes of WD as the cheaper ones I would be careful of the quality, up at xlan a company there was selling some cheap HDs... 2 of the group of 12 I went up with ended up with them crapping out (i think about 5-6 bought HD of the 12).