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[Jakerz]

Well I was installing WoW and I am out of space on my hard drive. I wanted to buy an external hard drive but it says usb 2.0 is required. I'm not sure what usb or whatever this computer has It's quite old. Anyone know how to check if the external hard drive will work on this computer or what type of usb this computer has?

Thanks a lot

Edit: I was looking at something like this http://www.futuresho...i...8944&catid=

Edited by Jakerz, 17 October 2008 - 09:18 AM.

[The Dirty Filipino]

Typically something running on 2.0 technology will downgrade to 1.1, but that would make the transfer rate incredibly slow.

You shouldn't have a problem but if you do you can pick up a PCI card with USB 2.0 for a couple of bucks.

[Jakerz]

Ah alright thanks.. Any idea how I'd go about using it to install WoW? Would I install WoW onto it or? O

[The Dirty Filipino]

If you're going to boot WoW I'd do it off the main disk drive. You can install it completely on the portable drive, you'd just need to make sure you have a fast enough transfer speed, else it'll take ages for it to load.

[Sida]

Like TEI said, it'd be a lot better if you could shift some crap onto the portable drive and install WoW to your main drive. If not though, you can install it to the portable drive and run the exe just fine but you'll get a lack in performance.

[SteWieH]

as in slowdown in game play, drop of framerates, very laggy play.. Just to name a few. playing wow on usb 1.1 is not recommanded kthk. install to your main drive

[Jakerz]

Alright I'll try to move some stuff to the External then.. No idea what's taking up so much space though :\ I'll try moving all my music/videos to the external one.

Thanks

[Mr. Hobo]

windirstat helps me find out what is clogging up my hd

http://windirstat.info/

[Kyle]

Just throwing this out there, you could get twice the capacity for the same price if you went with another internal drive.

[Sida]

Just throwing this out there, you could get twice the capacity for the same price if you went with another internal drive.

And you won't need to free up another plug socket.

[Jakerz]

Went out to buy a $100 hard drive when I realized I could get a brand new computer with more ram, 350g hard drive, better graphics card, for $650, bought that Now I gotta reinstall WoW AGAIN though

[Kyle]

Went out to buy a $100 hard drive when I realized I could get a brand new computer with more ram, 350g hard drive, better graphics card, for $650, bought that Now I gotta reinstall WoW AGAIN though

lol wow. That is a surprising turn of events

[Sida]

Went out to buy a $100 hard drive when I realized I could get a brand new computer with more ram, 350g hard drive, better graphics card, for $650, bought that Now I gotta reinstall WoW AGAIN though

Shoulda built one yourself. I guarantee it'd be better.

[Jakerz]

Not skilled enough/no time

[Mr. Hobo]

They're easy to put together (like legos kind of), takes like >1 hour, saves you money and will have better specs. I'm hoping you at least made sure you weren't over-paying by too much? What're the specs

[Jakerz]

3 gigs of ram, 500 gig hard drive, ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics card, blu ray player, dvd burner/player

[Sida]

3 gigs of ram, 500 gig hard drive, ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics card, blu ray player, dvd burner/player

You said 350gb hdd earlier lol. Make up your mind.

[Jakerz]

Says 500 on the sticker but only 350 when I go to "My Computer"

Oo and Intel Core 2 Quad processor.. Q6600

Seems to be working alright so far

[Mr. Hobo]

150 gigs lost to formatting is high, I lost >50gb. (on my 500gb one)

That video card is like 50$, it will be a huge bottle neck if you're planning to play video games at decent settings

[Jakerz]

Meh my old hard drive was only 40 gigs Yea I'm trying to find out if this video card will be good enough for WoW or not. My old one was worst then this one though and I'm use to playing WoW with that so

[Mr. Hobo]

Ya it'll be fine. My geforce2 ran wow smoothly

[Jakerz]

Sweet Just gotta wait till it installs again now Just started the patch from 2.4.3 to 3.0.2