I need help really bad. Plz help me.?

Question

Ok I just bought a 500GB external hard drive and I installed my fav. game Everquest 2 ok well I was installing the patch and I noticed it said it was going to take 100 + hours to download the patches for it. So is it my broadband or what? please I need help because I cannot play my drug :'( lol..

Thanks In Advance.

-Dave-

Answer 1

It is doubt full that the download time has anything at all to do with your drive internal, external or otherwise. Download speed reports are estimated based on the bandwidth of your Internet connection speed, or baud rate, You have a very slow dial up connection, or too much traffic on your high speed connection. Either wait and try when traffic is lighter, or ask the server people to sent you the patch in the mail- on a CD if it is that big, Myself, I wouldn't mess with any piece of software that required that much fixing just to run, but that's me, external drives can certainly serve to slow down execution of programs if a lot of disk accesses are required, but some of that can be ameliorated by adequate read ahead buffering and so forth. it depends on the amount of and frequency of disk accesses required by the program, often you can split things up, setting some data file spaces that require fast loading on your internal drive, and leaving main loading sections on the external drive, for example your word processor might be OK on the internal drive, but you could use the external drive to load and dump your text files. try downloading the patch as a file to your internal drive as a file, instead of clicking on install, them move your file to the external drive and run it (install it), But I don't think the download has squat to do with your drive, the Internet doesn't poll your PC to see what size, speed or data bus it has installed, it just goes by the connection speed that your system reports, and test results.

Answer 2

External hard drives communicate with your computer via USB or Firewire: Both are very, very slow compared to the data transfer rates of internal hard drives.

External drives should only be used for backup, not as a solution for running programs from.

Sorry for the news, considering the great price of these drives lately!