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Mame on an external?
« on: June 18, 2008, 09:16:44 AM »
I have a 1/2 TB (500gb) external HD and I was wondering if I put MAME (with all the roms and stuff) would their be any real slowdown as compared to putting on my internal computer hard drive....I'd put it on there, but I dont really have to much room to play with.

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Re: Mame on an external?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2008, 10:09:00 AM »
No, there would be zero slowdown.  For things such as MAME, hard drive speed is irrelevant because you are dealing with small files and you're not accessing a ton in a short period of time.