Loading big roms from portable drive

[eriols]

is there any performance penalty if you load your roms from portable drive, say for emulators like dolphin, cemu, or pcsx2?

 

[Mikemk]

Well, it'll be slower than your hard drive, but still faster than a spinning disc, so go ahead.

 

[Deleted User]

other than load times and the risk of accidentally disconnecting it while in use, not really

 

[FAST6191]

I presume these emulators have not taken to loading ROMs (or ISOs as the case may be) into RAM. If not I also assume they don't emulate load times. What type of external drive -- if you are for some reason rocking a USB2.0 drive here then the 30 megs a second it will rock (also with CPU penalty) will possibly make a difference (though it is still just about what some reckon the Wii U's speeds are).
If so then yeah look to find some lower load times than internal hard drives.

 

[Deleted User]

I presume these emulators have not taken to loading ROMs (or ISOs as the case may be) into RAM. If not I also assume they don't emulate load times. What type of external drive -- if you are for some reason rocking a USB2.0 drive here then the 30 megs a second it will rock (also with CPU penalty) will possibly make a difference (though it is still just about what some reckon the Wii U's speeds are).
If so then yeah look to find some lower load times than internal hard drives.

i think dolphin is the only one that preloads to ram

 

[Mikemk]

I also assume they don't emulate load times

Dolphin supports emulating DVD read speeds & timings, though I think (would hope) it's disabled by default.