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john_the_papito
By john_the_papito
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Hi Guys i have a lot of old cd-Rom games and i like to have them at one place so if i pust it on my ExternalHarddrive well it Work does it make the any slowwer  my external drive i a 1 TB USB 2.0

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It should not be that bad, Linus has an external hard drive that he uses with his test bench for bench marking I believe it is a  seagate go flex drive. Considering that you are using cd-Rom games, there should not be any issues.

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The speeds aren't going to be much slower, though loading times won't quite as quick as other solutions. 

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Yeah im using a cheapo 3TB external hard drive for most of my steam library...

 

yeah the load times are slow, but it's pretty convenient and cheap :)

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a usb 3.0 or Esata exturnal would cut the load times significantly if you are willing to upgrade

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If they are old, are load times going to be an issue?

 

Also, you might want to consider a digital medium like Steam. It could be better.

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