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toasty:
has anyone ever considered locating mame and the relevant roms on an external usb drive?  I've got one sitting around that would be large enough to hold everything, which would eliminate ther need to install a new hard drive in my computer, but I don't want to go that route if I'm going to see a drop in performance...

thanks for any input

lcddream:
if you use usb 2.0 i don't think there will be much of a problem.

why not just drop mame and a couple larger roms on there and give it a shot?

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: toasty on January 07, 2006, 12:32:38 pm ---... but I don't want to go that route if I'm going to see a drop in performance...

--- End quote ---

You might see a game load speed slow down (only noticable one huge ROMs), and maybe slower CHD reads (but USB 2.0 probably still is faster than the old arcade harddrives).  (Mame reads all the game's ROMs to memory at game start, but reads the CHD part by part as needed.)

But as said above, you probably won't notice it if you use USB 2.0 or firewire.

NIVO:
ive done it on countless occasions, ive never noticed ay difference. they load fine, play fine. excellent way to hook up to pc to update set, and use amongst your cabinet(s)

Frosty:
I'll endorse the Mac side of things, having used a removable FireWire drive with no problems...

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