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Which Drive is Better for Games?

Post Date: 2008-07-02
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    Posted: 02 Jul 2008 at 3:40pm
Hello--
 
Noob here. My new DS rig will be in here shortly! I (will) have two identical hard drives and just wondered if installing a game on the same HDD as the operating system makes any difference? If it doesn't then that is what the 2nd hard drive can be used for.
 
Just curious.
 
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Yea, if it doesn't matter, that's what I want to do. Just OS and drivers on the primary drive and games and programs on the secondary.
 
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Hmmm. Games will run without an OS on the drive?
 
So I could get a 64 MB SSD and load nothing on it but the games? What prevents viruses from hitting that hard drive? I obviously know nothing about having 2 hard drives.
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Wo, that is interesting. I think I would try that with an external SCSI or eSATA, but a USB or firewire seems like it would be too slow.
 
Well, I have a new game (new to me) that will only launch properly when launched from Vista's Game Explorer. I searched online for a solution, and that worked for me. FYI, the game is Gears of War with the current patch.
 
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