“Can I download my games from Steam and play them off this drive? My laptop is running out of hard drive space because I have so many games and videos on it and have been considering buying this portable drive to resolve that problem.”
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Yes you can, but there might be performance issues with running a game off a sub hdd because of the slower read and write speeds. It's plausible but not ideal. Id recommend going with an internal hdd and expanding and upgrading your internal computer components. It would run better and be an easier setup. Source: Best Buy Computer Associate
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes you can, a external hard drive is just like a external one, I myself have two forms of steam on both my SSD and HDD. If you read online though there is a way to trick steam into thinking that the location of Ultra 1TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive is actually your main disk, if you search how to trick steam into running games from a different location you will find some more info.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.yes, this device installs as a hard drive so you can install to it. Just when you install your software, you need to point your installation software to this "hard drive."
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, just point your steam game directory to the install path on your external drive and there will be an option to install all future games to the drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.All depends by the install options of the specific game, if it's a decompress and play it's work.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.you would have to first install STEAM to that drive and always point to it when asked where to install games/add ons, etc.. If STEAM is not installed on that drive, it might not work the way you want it to.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes go to your steam acct choose option to download games straight to your external HD then just boot them. Load time will be slower so things like A sata drive or usb 3.0 will be very useful.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Works great as an external drive. It's fast and large capacity. I have had no problems with it so far.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.not sure about games but i transfer all my videos to this device and then plug in to watch them either on my computer or my tv that has a usb port.
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