Hi Everyone,
So I'm going through a similar situation as described above.
My go is- I own an ASUS laptop and I'm pretty sure my memory is all full. So, I've now gone and bought a USB hardrive of 2 TBs, and with the sims 4 coming out tomorrow, I am eager to play it. So! What should I do? Should I uninstall all ym sims 3 expansions and game and put it on my USB Hardrive? or downloard my sims 4 straight onto my USB? becauase I've read that putting the sims game onto the USB hardrive will game the game slower?
Now I don't know if anyone will actually help me or see this, but if anyone has relevant feedback,it would help me hopefully 🙂
an external usb storage device is going to be slower (much slower) then a storage device that is directly connected. You need free space on the system drive for the operating system to work correctly. I recommend 20% of the capacity of the system drive be free. The best way to get more storage is to purchase a larger storage device (hard drive) and image the old drive to the new drive then remove the old drive and install the larger drive. Imaging only works with like devices (sata to sata, pata to pata, etc). There are shareware programs that will do this. I use Norton Ghost only because I bought it a long time ago and it works. With Seagate now shipping 8tb drives there is no excuse to run out of storage. Running programs from an external usb drive can be troublesome. Usb drives are good for mass storage like for music, movies, pictures, etc but not to execute from. The trouble with usb drives is that the drive letter can get reassigned and that usually stops the program from working correctly. Like the startup icon - that is a fancy short cut to the program executable and if the drive is re assigned the program will not be found (just one example). There are other ways (nas box?) but none are as good as using a bigger system drive.
