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~~Wozer~~ · 07-22-2007, 08:16 PM

while said drive may be 7,200 rpm, its still a usb device...have you ever noticed your machine hang up every now and again?....well mine does, and its because of the slow response times when talking to my WD 250GB external drive...even when actively using it, I still sometimes get said hang up when accessing files residing on that drive...

so my answer would be no, the performance associated with this drive for gaming would probably be poor...I know for a fact that using this type of drive for streaming audio samples is bogus...for real performance on an external drive you need to be using a firewire interface..

07-22-2007, 08:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
~~Wozer~~ Troubled Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,038 OS: 2kpro/XP pro/MCE	Re: Western Digital External USB 2.0 HDD while said drive may be 7,200 rpm, its still a usb device...have you ever noticed your machine hang up every now and again?....well mine does, and its because of the slow response times when talking to my WD 250GB external drive...even when actively using it, I still sometimes get said hang up when accessing files residing on that drive... so my answer would be no, the performance associated with this drive for gaming would probably be poor...I know for a fact that using this type of drive for streaming audio samples is bogus...for real performance on an external drive you need to be using a firewire interface..