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    Application in external HDD performance

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Douten, Oct 30, 2008.

  1. Douten

    Douten Notebook Consultant

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    Hi! If I were to put an application, such as a game in an external HD connected through USB2 (Is Firewire800 recommended?) will the performance be slow?
    Like let's say I want to install Sims2 on an external HDD. I understand that internal HDD will allow the application -much- faster access to the data, but does most application take full advantage of that? or is it native.

    So basically will application performance still run at a reasonable pace if it's from an external HDD. I don't mind if launch time is longer btw.[/s]
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  2. RogueMonk

    RogueMonk Notebook Deity

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    It all depends on the application. If it is a disk-dependant application (game), than your performance will noticeably suffer. If it is an application, that simply loads into memory, than only your load times will be affected.

    As for Sims2, I would not recomend it.
     
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  3. Douten

    Douten Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the reply Rogue!

    I have a problem so I'll just post it here instead of making a new thread. My Bluetooth freezes up when I disconnect my mouse after waking it from sleeping mode. What I do is turn the MBP up from sleeping and go to the bluetooth icon on the top of the bar and go down to my travel mouse and choose disconnect. Then the color wheel spins forever for the icons of wireless, volume, and other stuff too. I tried to go to system preference to disconnect it there and the color wheel showed up again. So I restart the system but it doesn't work.. I left it for like 10 minute and it's still restarting, so I'm guessing it's the bluetooth.

    Is this a common problem, does anyone have a solution? Many thanks : )
     
    Douten, Oct 30, 2008
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