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Hi Hiede,
Yes you can, and not so much with CFS2, but there may be slow downs and hesitations with other bigger, more demanding flight sims as the data transfer speeds of a memory stick are not up to the data transfer rates of a HDD.
The problem with memory sticks are that they're susceptible to static shock, physical damage and ultimately aimple loss. (Just ask my wife who lost her 6000 word degree dissertation some 20 years ago and it cost us £600/$800 to get it back then! And all because she trusted only a memory stick....that just went phut. ). Melodramatic example, yes, but I would hate him to lose all his good work and set-ups/installs through a simple glitch.
I'm not spending your money, but external HDD's are not a lot of money eg US Ebay 500Gb internal or external HDD new for about $24.00 or 1TB for $52, or if you're brave, a refurbished HDD for about $10-15 less.
Yes to having another back-up copy on a memory stick, but using a HDD for your primary storage is a much better idea.
Cheers
Shessi
Yes you can, and not so much with CFS2, but there may be slow downs and hesitations with other bigger, more demanding flight sims as the data transfer speeds of a memory stick are not up to the data transfer rates of a HDD.
The problem with memory sticks are that they're susceptible to static shock, physical damage and ultimately aimple loss. (Just ask my wife who lost her 6000 word degree dissertation some 20 years ago and it cost us £600/$800 to get it back then! And all because she trusted only a memory stick....that just went phut. ). Melodramatic example, yes, but I would hate him to lose all his good work and set-ups/installs through a simple glitch.
I'm not spending your money, but external HDD's are not a lot of money eg US Ebay 500Gb internal or external HDD new for about $24.00 or 1TB for $52, or if you're brave, a refurbished HDD for about $10-15 less.
Yes to having another back-up copy on a memory stick, but using a HDD for your primary storage is a much better idea.
Cheers
Shessi
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Cfs2 on usb sticks.....
Hiedi:
I have several different sticks for CFS2. The problem I found was keeping track of what was on what stick. I have used the game itself on a stick but I did find that using the game on the stick resulted in lag and, as others have already stated ,lately some external HD's have become really cheap and work better. I even formatted some old drives I had and in external USB enclosures have put the games with no problem. Also keep in mind that not all USB sticks are equal in quality and can lose their data over a period of time.
Hiedi:
I have several different sticks for CFS2. The problem I found was keeping track of what was on what stick. I have used the game itself on a stick but I did find that using the game on the stick resulted in lag and, as others have already stated ,lately some external HD's have become really cheap and work better. I even formatted some old drives I had and in external USB enclosures have put the games with no problem. Also keep in mind that not all USB sticks are equal in quality and can lose their data over a period of time.
Hiede
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Hiede,
I have CFS2 on my backup hard drives....I'm able to free up a lot of space on my hard drives by running it off my backup drive.
Guess you and others didn't read the post where I said I had external HD's.Or maybe it was just ignored.
Hiede