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  1. 27th Nov 2007 18:50 #1
    Xenogear900
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    There's about 600gb of Roms/isos that I wanna play on emulators (Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and PSX mostly). If I put these games on a big external USB hard drive, will it affect the speed at which these games play?

    Will it be as fast as if it were on my normal Hard Drive?

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    I haven't tried the PSX emus, but I get full speed on all the other ones on a USB2 drive. I've used just about all of them, from Nester to KGen to MAME and all between. The only ones I haven't tried are the "Next Gen" ones, like PS2, Gamecube, etc.
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    Will USB affect the speed: Likely.

    Will you notice it: Maybe.

    It depends on the quality of the external drive's interface board. If you have a crappy enclosure, it will likely fail. Quality stuff, likely not.

    Will it be as fast as your internal hard drive: I kinda doubt it - but you still may never notice it during play.
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  4. 28th Nov 2007 17:31 #4
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    It may depend on the emu. Some have to be installed whereas some are stand-alone.
    I run SNES, Genesis, TG-16, and NES emulators at work from a thumb drive with no problems.

    PSX and PS2 emulators most likely will not work well on your USB drive...
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