Installing Games & Heavy Software Via the Media Bay (E6410)

Hello,

I am trying to snap in a 160gb 7200RPM into the media modular bay and install 3D games like Call of Duty, Battlefield 3, etc and Adobe softwares. So I can snap in and out when I need it.

Now it looks like if I choose the path correctly into the drive, the installation will work. I am assuming that the speed won't be much of an issue since it is directly connected to SATA (though yes, speed is a bit lower than the SATA for HDD).

Should I expect the speed of the program to be same as if I installed into a main 7200RPM HDD? If I install on a 5400RPM, will I see a bottleneck due to HDD and connection?

Thanks in advance!

 

The interface of the media bay won't bottleneck a conventional HDD... it's standard SATA2 afaik.

 

If you're doing this on a work laptop, I would suggest installing your own OS on there first, and then installing to that OS. Otherwise it'll get written on the registry of the OS on your internal HDD, regardless of install directory...

 

Ryko,

Ah I see. All I am trying to do is save HDD space. Looks like the registry doesn't take much data at all.

I just want to be able to swap in and out without having to reboot the system.

 

Ok, just wanted to save you a potential distaster.

I don't think there'll be any problem doing it your way.

 

God I really miss the days I had fully tricked out M17x R2 and M6600. Those were the good days, I could do anything with them.