Great News! New HD

I'm hoping to get my first External Harddrive!
(Not for Christmas, already a bit pricey , hopefully Jan '17)

So this thread dosen't sound like boasting, what I really want to say is thank you to the forum!

I was looking at this thread last night, so I looked into external hard drives and was delighted to find there's no fiddling about with my PC Case, it's as simple as plugging in a few cables!

The thread really made me think, for one, I have the Ffestiniog Route, which took WEEKS(being non first class ticket holder mind you. Not bad internet.. :heheto download.

It would be a nightmare redownloading it all again..

Anyway, so I don't ramble, I just want to say thank you to the community for opening my eyes.

If your PC jacks are USB 3.0, an external HD may work ... as a USB 2.0 through a regular USB cable may not transmit data fast enough, causing stuttering framerates, and pauses

I would not advise trying to run Trainz from an external drive but it will be very good for backups. I use an external drive for that, I keep three backups, deleting the oldest one every time I do a new backup.

Cheers,
Bill69

Bill69 said:

I would not advise trying to run Trainz from an external drive but it will be very good for backups.

Cheers,
Bill69

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That's EXACTLY what I'm using it for, backups.

Of course, running it would be foolish as it's designed to STORE data only, not run programs like a normal PC.