Putting WOW on a usb key?

[magwo]

My experience with this was poor performance.

[Skuggomann]

If you want fast and stable reading, maby you shud look into Solid State discs (SSD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_drive

you can get a PCI-e expansion slot for them (if i remember correctly), not sure if it supports RAID but if it does XD lolz

[Hachoo]

Yeah sorry, USB2 speed might be 480Mb/s, but the speed of the sticks themselves is way lower than that. Performance on a regular USB stick is going to be horrible as the actual read/write speed will be slow as hell.

[-silencer-]

If you want fast and stable reading, maby you shud look into Solid State discs (SSD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_drive

you can get a PCI-e expansion slot for them (if i remember correctly), not sure if it supports RAID but if it does XD lolz

Huh? SSDs use the same SATA connector as a standard magnetic hard drive - no need to use expansion slots, and yes they can be in a RAID array.

[Pocalypse]

I have a 32gb Corsair USB stick, I always keep a current copy of wow on it and transfer it over to whichever computer I'm using at the time.

I've never tried to play straight off it though, as the stick itself is pretty slow.

It's still a great way to carry a copy with you.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Like all computer hardware, USB keys are not made the same see the following link

http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/revie...-and-compared/

If you look at the second to bottom chart where they have the read throughput, some keys are abysmal and are less than a 3rd the transfer rate of a stat 2 drive, but the quality ones are pushing the theoretical limits of USB2.0 at 462Mbps. Read is really all that should matter for WOW, you don't write to the files while playing. Being a USB drive you also remove all the seek time that traditional hdds add to the equation as well increasing performance.

The comments of it sucks to its fine seem to confirm this as well.

A neat solution would be something like a 5.25 ram drive and raid 0 it. But that is an expensive solution.

[moosejaw]

Thanks for the link Starbuck. I imagine that if a drive passes the Vista ready boost test that it would be good to go for playing Wow on. Playable for one instance only to get you by if you were not at home and wanted to get your fix in. hehe

[Sam DeathWalker]

I used a 16G ozc rally 2.

Of course my application was for 5 wow's not one.