External Hard drive

[Stalkzor]

Can I run DAOC from an external USB Hard drive ? WOuld that work fine ?

Thanks

Hemorragie

 

[youngbaba]

would work but loading times would be slow, so would on the fly caching

in other words, loooong load times and lots of ingame pausing/freezing

 

[Stalkzor]

would work but loading times would be slow, so would on the fly caching

in other words, loooong load times and lots of ingame pausing/freezing

Even using a 7200 rpm hard drive ?

 

[UndyingAngel]

Useing a USB1 Woulds be insane ... its its a USB2 external HDD its might be ok.. but still slow.. the 7200RPM doesnt mean shit when its an external HDD, you are still limited by the Bus Speed..

 

[Jaem-]

Best using an internal drive, nicer speeds.

IDE or even better SATA, but dunno much about SCSI heard its pricey.

 

[UndyingAngel]

SCSI heard its pricey.

SCSI is pricey if you go for the nice stuff not as pricey as it used to be tho but that proberly 5x to 10x the price of IDE, I carnt remember I just order the stuff I dont buy it when I need it @ work

 

[youngbaba]

yeah spin speed is fine and small files wont be a problem, but daoc caches a LOT which means lots of using the hard drive for large files. USB2 is something like 480mbps which is around 52MB a sec optimally, but depending on cpu useage for USB bus aswel as looking at realistic speed would prolly be around the same speed as an ATA33 drive, which wouldnt be bad for a bot but no way could you stand playing rvr from it

 

[Mr.Brand]

Speed of the harddrive doesn't matter, as you can't rely on getting full
theoretical USB2 speeds. I have an external USB drive which I've tinkered
with on several systems (including PS2), and it's slow. Slug-speed.

Try firewire. My WD external is writing at a nice 40 megabytes per second
peak speed, dropping down to 23 occasionally. YMMV etc.

 

[cHodAX]

USB2 will be ok for playing the game off it as long as you are running the O/S of another internal drive and the system pagefile is stored on the O/S drive or a secondary internal drive. If you are planning to run the whole shebang off the USB2 drive though forget it, USB2 just can't cope with the stresses of running an O/S and a highly demanding game like DAoC.

 

[Honza]

Running via USB will take much more CPU load than IDE... Although nowadays you can get motherboards with external S-ATA ports (with those ofc you'd not have any problems)...

It's runnable with USB2 but the price is high. And, you have to count with another fact - this device (even when it is so fast) is not designed to run for a long time with such a load...