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GGKoul:

Hello

Just wondering if anyone is using a USB HD in there cabinet?  As I'm interested in purchasing one so I can hold everything romset I have and easliy move the drive from machine to machine.

But I'm wondering if anyone is running the game from the USB drive?  As I would like to know if there is any proformance loss by using a USB HD during gameplay.

Thanks!
-GG


Hoagie_one:

i gotta think that the load times would be a hair slower, but almost not noticable on older games.  But i dont speak from experience

GGKoul:

I think so too... but how bad of a loss...

Santoro:

I would imagine that the only *in-game* issues you might experience would be with .CHD games.  Even then, I doubt you would notice it much if at all.  (this assumes USB2.0 connectivity.)

The smaller ROMs will be in RAM once loaded.

I am sure someone who has tried it will chime in.

Trimoor:

I played around with one once, and I was able to get two streams of 720x480 DV video playing simultaneously with no lag.

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