Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - External Harddrive vs. computer

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | External Harddrive vs. computer

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Posted onPost created on December 20 2010 14:15 ET by Graham Ritz

Keep in mind: I am not a computer expect. Quick question, if I have an external hard drive and load everything on it (ie FS9 and FSX), will that help my FPS at all?

Thanks in advance,
Graham

Graham Ritz

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Posted onPost created on December 20 2010 14:19 ET by Robert Armstrong

No, the data transfer rate of a USB External Hard Drive is much less than that of the internal Hard Drives connected via SATA

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Posted onPost created on December 20 2010 15:27 ET by Paul Barnhill

I used an external HD when I was running FS off my old laptop, and it actually hurt the frames and loading time a lot. If you absolutely must use an external HD dude to space issues, you can, but I highly recommend using your internal HD if you have the space for your FS files.

Paul Barnhill

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