External harddrive Q's

My 320GB hardrive on my computer is down to 50GB because of lots of movies on games I record the the amount of games I have on my computer. the first thing I want to do is my all my video files over which should remove about 20GB of memory. My next question is it safe to move/install games to an external harddrive, and if so, how do you do it. Are there any risks of the game not working? thanks

Well for one you wouldn't be able to copy the games from your hard drive to the other one because they wouldn't work. you would have to reinstall them to the new hard drive. Also with external hard-drives I don't think you would want to run games off of them because if its a USB or fire-wire connection then your loading times would increase. If you want to be able to run games off of a external hard-drive then you would want to use an esata connection. Which is the same speeds as an internal sata drive. But for the most part external drives are more ideal for just backing up and storing your data.

So if you can fit another hard-drive in your case then getting an internal hard-drive would be a better solution I think.

My 320GB hardrive on my computer is down to 50GB because of lots of movies on games I record the the amount of games I have on my computer. the first thing I want to do is my all my video files over which should remove about 20GB of memory. My next question is it safe to move/install games to an external harddrive, and if so, how do you do it. Are there any risks of the game not working? thanks

gamerguy845

wat

I'd not try to run/load games from external hdds unless you dont mind waiting hours for installation and everytime you want to play, you gotta wait for teh slow loading.. If you like the idea of External HDD and you find it better than new internal one, then move all of your data/videos/movies/songs to the new HDD and keep applications and games

ok, so games aren't really a good idea on an External HDD, but what I might do is move a bunch of old games over there, so I still have them, but I have more space. Is it possible to put an external harddrive into your computer to make it an "internal harddrive"?

ok, so games aren't really a good idea on an External HDD, but what I might do is move a bunch of old games over there, so I still have them, but I have more space. Is it possible to put an external harddrive into your computer to make it an "internal harddrive"?

gamerguy845

It is still an external hard drive not "interanl hard drive"

ok, so games aren't really a good idea on an External HDD, but what I might do is move a bunch of old games over there, so I still have them, but I have more space. Is it possible to put an external harddrive into your computer to make it an "internal harddrive"?

gamerguy845

haha that's funny. u can't really make an external hard drive to internal. if u plug in a hard drive thru USB, that's external. except in the case of eSATA because they run at the same speed of internal SATA hard drives