I've been tracking this topic just out of couriosity. I did see in another forum/topic that an external HD does not run or otherwise operate nearly as fast as the OS HD. FYI.
Ken
I was wondering for a similar reason! I dont game that much but have no room on my onboard HD so was thinking about adding games to the external one.
I'm a long time gamer who is quickly running out of HD space for games. With games coming out that take up a whopping 6-7 gigs of HD space, I find myself with only 10 gigs of HD space left and my motherboard cant handle another HD.
So I was wondering, is it possible to play games on an external HD with no "significant" loss to performance? I'm planning on getting an external HD with USB2.0 support, and a 7200 RPM drive. It's reported that these drives can read up to 480 Mb/sec. that seems proficient.
more importantly, will "modern" games like Doom3 and HL2 be significantly affected?

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