I have this hard drive for general storage and a separate SSD for my OS and various programs. My question is whether I can play the games stored on my hard drive while recording to the same drive without causing issues. I've never really recorded before, and I want to test Nvidia ShadowPlay, which I heard is amazing and only requires 15 megabits per second of write speed. So, what are the effects of simultaneously recording and playing off one hard drive?
Yes, you can, but over time it will significantly slow down your main drive, which you do not want. I personally did this for a year in my laptop (which, granted, had terrible build quality), and the drive slowed down so much that I could no longer record to it because it couldn't write the file fast enough for it to be above 20 fps (which is bad). If it's in your budget, I recommend getting this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007FQNLR6/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. It's a very fast, affordable, and compact USB3 drive that can hold more than enough footage at one time. Using this will assure you do not damage the performance of your internal drive, which will make your computer last a lot longer between OS reinstalls.
Yes, you can, but over time it will significantly slow down your main drive, which you do not want. I personally did this for a year in my laptop (which, granted, had terrible build quality), and the drive slowed down so much that I could no longer record to it because it couldn't write the file fast enough for it to be above 20 fps (which is bad). If it's in your budget, I recommend getting this: http://www.amazon.co...0?ie=UTF8&psc=1. It's a very fast, affordable, and compact USB3 drive that can hold more than enough footage at one time. Using this will assure you do not damage the performance of your internal drive, which will make your computer last a lot longer between OS reinstalls.
This only works if he has a USB3 port. If he does not, the speed of USB2.0 won't be enough.
Those wd external drives are just scorpio blue drives with a sata to usb converter. I found this out when my wd passport broke and i took it apart. Inside was the converter dongle and the hdd. hdd worked fine still but the converter was broken. I threw it in my main rig and found out it was fat32. so i had to re format it in ntfs.
Those wd external drives are just scorpio blue drives with a sata to usb converter. I found this out when my wd passport broke and i took it apart. Inside was the converter dongle and the hdd. hdd worked fine still but the converter was broken. I threw it in my main rig and found out it was fat32. so i had to re format it in ntfs.
Yes, you can, but over time it will significantly slow down your main drive, which you do not want. I personally did this for a year in my laptop (which, granted, had terrible build quality), and the drive slowed down so much that I could no longer record to it because it couldn't write the file fast enough for it to be above 20 fps (which is bad). If it's in your budget, I recommend getting this: http://www.amazon.co...0?ie=UTF8&psc=1. It's a very fast, affordable, and compact USB3 drive that can hold more than enough footage at one time. Using this will assure you do not damage the performance of your internal drive, which will make your computer last a lot longer between OS reinstalls.
This is EXACTLY what I wanted to know. Thanks! But by the way, what are these OS reinstalls you speak of?
Those wd external drives are just scorpio blue drives with a sata to usb converter. I found this out when my wd passport broke and i took it apart. Inside was the converter dongle and the hdd. hdd worked fine still but the converter was broken. I threw it in my main rig and found out it was fat32. so i had to re format it in ntfs.
Well, is that good or bad for the product he recommended?
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fm87!This is EXACTLY what I wanted to know. Thanks! But by the way, what are these OS reinstalls you speak of?
Yes, I have USB3's.
Well, is that good or bad for the product he recommended?