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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Zacherof on August 18, 2015, 04:16:35 PM

Title: Flash drives, and external hard drives
Post by: Zacherof on August 18, 2015, 04:16:35 PM

Any of you guys have AH downloaded on to a flash drive or an external hard drive?
Or is this a bad idea  :uhoh :uhoh

Title: Re: Flash drives, and external hard drives
Post by: kvuo75 on August 18, 2015, 04:27:49 PM

Quote from: Zacherof on August 18, 2015, 04:16:35 PM

Any of you guys have AH downloaded on to a flash drive or an external hard drive?
Or is this a bad idea  :uhoh :uhoh

and actually run it from one? i doubt they're fast enough.

Title: Re: Flash drives, and external hard drives
Post by: Zacherof on August 18, 2015, 04:43:31 PM

Quote from: kvuo75 on August 18, 2015, 04:27:49 PM

and actually run it from one? i doubt they're fast enough.

Hmmm kinda makes sense I guess. Was fiddling with an xbox 360 and flash drives and wondered if it would actually work

Title: Re: Flash drives, and external hard drives
Post by: save on August 19, 2015, 03:00:30 AM

AH write to files , you do not want to have a slow unit doing that.

Title: Re: Flash drives, and external hard drives
Post by: Bizman on August 19, 2015, 04:34:04 AM

The last time I was studying IT last winter, the teachers tested whether some application could be run from a USB3 hard drive. Might have been Adobe Connect or something, anyway it was nothing too simple and lightweight. It worked. USB2 will definitely be too slow. Also, as Save said, there's lots of writing done.

Are you running out of hard disk space?

Title: Re: Flash drives, and external hard drives
Post by: Krusty on August 19, 2015, 08:09:38 AM

A flash drive is not a flash drive is not a flash drive. The ones with architecture that responds to read/writes fast enough to run programs will be prohibitively expensive and are not just your everyday "transfer files to other computers" jump drives.

You are better off running it off your internal hard drive.

Title: Re: Flash drives, and external hard drives
Post by: ebfd11 on August 19, 2015, 09:31:05 AM

The only thing I save to external hard drive is my skins, terrains, maps and settings.

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