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An internal drive would be faster because its connected by sata while most external drives are only connected through USB. other than that there shouldn't be problems with it not working

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I've been wondering this for a while if using an external hard drive is fine as a internal hard drive or is it a bad idea like if it'll stop working or any other problem. Because I've been using it on my PC to save games since my 1TB internal hard drive ran out of storage.

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An internal drive would be faster because its connected by sata while most external drives are only connected through USB. other than that there shouldn't be problems with it not working

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Well. I'd say an internal hdd would last longer, at least for me.

Not because of build reasons, but just because you aren't really going to drop an internal hdd because it's... inside.

Compared to one unlucky drop w/ an external one and it's all done.

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3 minutes ago, Linker said:

Well. I'd say an internal hdd would last longer, at least for me.

Not because of build reasons, but just because you aren't really going to drop an internal hdd because it's... inside.

Compared to one unlucky drop w/ an external one and it's all done.

yeah I know thats why i have it on top of my PC and try to be careful with it when ever I move my PC

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21 hours ago, kitsuneshrine said:

yeah I know thats why i have it on top of my PC and try to be careful with it when ever I move my PC

I put it there, didn't help me, slipped off, almost lost all my data, but I got it (mostly) off before it finally croaked.

I'm an edge case though, hah, I'm a little clumsy.

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On 1/17/2019 at 3:25 PM, MediaMan said:

It really just depends on what your use case is.

im mainly using it to install games on it because my 1TB hard drive is almost full

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It is ok if it is for video games, there are no improvements in FPS whether you use an internal or external hard drive.

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