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    HP Media External 160 GB Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'HP' started by wedge86, Jun 6, 2005.

  1. wedge86

    wedge86 Newbie

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    I'm looking at an external hard drive and this one caught my interest for my soon to own zd8000. Will I be able to slap 4 butt loads of games and be able to play the high end ones (like HL2)?

    It says 7200 RPMs... But I'm just wandering if USB 2.0 will slow it down..
    Thanks!
     
    wedge86, Jun 6, 2005
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  2. southbark

    southbark Notebook Guru

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    USB 2.0 will not slow it down at all as a matter of fact you can use the external drive to hold and boot your operating system and it will be a lot faster then the drive you have now.i would not buy an external drive from hp though you can get a external enclosure (even faster with firewire 800)and a hard drive way cheaper then buying from hp

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    southbark, Jun 6, 2005
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  3. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    Yes, that drive from HP is overpriced, for the same price, you can get a larger hard drive. The USB 2.0 will not slow your gaming down.
     
    Rahul, Jun 7, 2005
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