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| Storing Steam games on an external drive I have an external drive with USB3 and another with eSata, I'm wondering what kind of performance loss (if any) I'd be looking at by running my games from an external drive.
I'd also be interested in moving my library from my Desktop to my laptop. Is it possible? Is it a good idea? Your thoughts?
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kudos:8 | I do it on my laptop (internal SSD, external 1TB USB3). It works fine. |
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| said by Krisnatharok:I do it on my laptop (internal SSD, external 1TB USB3). It works fine.
Good to know, can you transfer your gaming library between your laptop and desktop?
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kudos:8 | I believe there may be mods or programs that do that, I just have the whole application stored on my external. |
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| said by Krisnatharok:I believe there may be mods or programs that do that, I just have the whole application stored on my external.
Is the USB3 install for your laptop only?
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kudos:8 | Yeah. It only has space for one internal drive, so I opted for a 120GB SSD boot drive, and slide the 1TB external into a space in the laptop cooler beneath the laptop, so I can still pick the whole thing up and move it as one piece of equipment.
When I'm on the road, I have this setup ritual where I connect the USB hub, the laptop cooler, HDD inside the cooler, the mouse, the headphones, and the tether to my Droid so I get free internet. 
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kudos:2 | That's an excellent setup, I think I'm going to emulate a least some parts of it.
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Yes, it will work fine. |
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| said by 27600969:Yes, it will work fine.
I'll report back when I have it all set up.
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You generally can move your steam folder around without a problem. I have had steam for years and have it on a separate partition and moved it around to different computers without any problem. Some games in steam might have issues, but all the games I have never gave me a single problem. |
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| said by cpsycho:You generally can move your steam folder around without a problem. I have had steam for years and have it on a separate partition and moved it around to different computers without any problem. Some games in steam might have issues, but all the games I have never gave me a single problem.
Thanks for letting me know.
I've done this on internal drives, I wanted to make sure that USB3 was fast enough to deliver a good gaming experience, all sings point to yes so far which is good, because I have limited space on my laptop, but I just got a new 3TB USB3 drive.
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