games on external drive, any problems?

grandpatzer · Post by **grandpatzer** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:29 pm

ok, so my solution to avoiding the noise from mechanical drive during office work is to sipmle buy a eSata cage slap the internal sata drive in there.

When I'm doing low cpu power stuff the only disc on will be a Intel 40gb SSD, once I want to play games I will turn on the eSata harddrive and start playing.

As far as I can see this is the optimal solution.

Now to my question:
1: Does anyone see any trouble with this setup?

Hardware: Phenom II X4 965BE at 1.20v, 785G mobo, 4gb or 6gb DDR2 800, SSD 40gb, GPU 5850 +S1 R2, PSU 650TX Corsair, a passive eSata enclosure +WERY old spinpoint harddrive.

syrian_gamer · Post by **syrian_gamer** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:39 pm

It shouldnt be a problem since the speed of eSata is the same as Sata. Although why not just buy an internal drive and use HOTSWAP to turn off the drive?

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