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student000
I am considering buying a portable external hard drive to put music, videos and games on, but i have heard that games may either run slowly or not at all due to problems with the regisry or something.
Also, can i run other programs such as audio editing programs or winrar etc.
I am ultimately trying to make room on my small, and slow internal hard drive on my windows xp computer.
Basically, will games be playable if they are already kinda slow on my interanal hard drive from an external portable hard drive.
Thanks for any help you could offer.
Answer
If the game program is located entirely on the portable drive, you are OK. If not, such things as registry settings can get in the way. How can you tell? Good luck in trying. Other than asking the game manufacturer, if they respond to your inquiry, there are few reliable sources. Trial and error is up to you. Small games may be worth trying. Large games that take too long to load in the first place would be really frustrating if they fail.
Videos and audio editing use standard file types and therefore are portable. You can use one editor on one PC and another on another PC and not have to worry about compatibility.
Games on the other hand are usually on the bleeding edge of technology and much is non-standard or proprietary. If you were a game manufacturer, would you tell how you did things to anyone while you are trying to stay in the forefront of gaming technology? So if you don't want to install it twice, think twice about installing it on the portable drive.
I have a second, larger internal drive, on my PC. If I upgrade to a new PC, it can change the operating system on the new primary drive, but all I have to do is move the second drive to the new machine and 90% of reloading the game is done.
Why not consider a second internal drive for the games and a writeable DVD player for the videos and audio editing. The DVD player takes longer to write, but you can move the files to the faster second drive for editing until you get it right and then let it burn to the DVD drive unattended.
If the game program is located entirely on the portable drive, you are OK. If not, such things as registry settings can get in the way. How can you tell? Good luck in trying. Other than asking the game manufacturer, if they respond to your inquiry, there are few reliable sources. Trial and error is up to you. Small games may be worth trying. Large games that take too long to load in the first place would be really frustrating if they fail.
Videos and audio editing use standard file types and therefore are portable. You can use one editor on one PC and another on another PC and not have to worry about compatibility.
Games on the other hand are usually on the bleeding edge of technology and much is non-standard or proprietary. If you were a game manufacturer, would you tell how you did things to anyone while you are trying to stay in the forefront of gaming technology? So if you don't want to install it twice, think twice about installing it on the portable drive.
I have a second, larger internal drive, on my PC. If I upgrade to a new PC, it can change the operating system on the new primary drive, but all I have to do is move the second drive to the new machine and 90% of reloading the game is done.
Why not consider a second internal drive for the games and a writeable DVD player for the videos and audio editing. The DVD player takes longer to write, but you can move the files to the faster second drive for editing until you get it right and then let it burn to the DVD drive unattended.
Is it possible to play music from an external hard drive without a computer?
Some Guy
I never seem to have enough space on my mp3 or phone to store all my music and videos.
So I was wondering if there wasn't something that allowed me to play music and/or videos directly from my portable hard drive.
Maybe, an adapter to female 3,5 mm jack? An android app?
I've used Google but couldn't find anything.
Answer
We were just talking about that. There is at least one speaker unit out there that takes USB input. I know that our local geek shop has SD card and flashdrive players, but I don't have one so can't tell you how well they work.
We were just talking about that. There is at least one speaker unit out there that takes USB input. I know that our local geek shop has SD card and flashdrive players, but I don't have one so can't tell you how well they work.
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