External Harddrive is that what there called?

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#1 Wolfetan
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Ok so I like to be organized :P and i hav equite a few games (about 20) and i was wondering if the external harddrive i could just place all my games on there I know its weird but thats me :P andif so what would be the nicest easiest to use harddrive (Im thinking 500 gb and only like $80 if thats not enough go up like 10$ thx!)

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#2 somegtalover
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if you wanna play em off an external hard drive, it would be bad. Things would run alot slower because how its hooked up (probably by USB) so your loading will be limited by the speed of USB which is slower than SATA. get a big INTERNAL HDD and install it, its not hard at all

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#3 Wolfetan
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no thats not what a meant this'll sound weird but i just wanna have it on the drive to have it on the drive im weird i know.

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#4 somegtalover
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Id still just buy an internal drive. all you do is put it in a drive bay, plug it in to your mobo's sata connectors and format it by selecting format in whatever windows your using. they are cheaper and faster. better price/performance

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#5 Wolfetan
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can u answer what i asked CMON

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#6 Wolfetan
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#7 shadowbmx790
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are you saying that you want to store the games as backups on the hdd?

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#8 Wolfetan
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yes...

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#9 swehunt
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yes...

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You know that even if you have them games on the external you still just can play them on the PC you installed the game with?
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#10 Wolfetan
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Ive already stated im weird i just want to have it on the harddrive to have it on the harddrive.

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#11 swehunt
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Ive already stated im weird

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Yeah you did... XP
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#12 Wolfetan
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just would i be able to put games on it and how would i do this?

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#14 swehunt
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just would i be able to put games on it and how would i do this?

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two way to do it.

A) Install the games on the external instead of your main HDD. (whenever you will play games you have to use the external.)

B) just copy the files and put it on your external. (doing it this way would make anything but the savefiles usless.)

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#15 Wolfetan
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So the b option i could put games on there and it could just be on there :P no save files?

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#16 NLahren
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u can buy this if u have enough esata connectors or this to back up your files