[OnTheKeys]

I have a bootcamp'd XP partition, but it's only 32GB and I have programs like ProTools, Cubase SX, Dark Age of Camelot which are taking up a lot of space. I have about 3GB left on the drive, which slows down read and write speeds. How efficient is it to run these programs from a USB 2.0 drive? I know Firewire is a lot better, but I have a 250GB external drive that runs on USB 2.0 I'd like to have the Windows Partition as free as possible.

[ginoledesma]

In terms of running the application, there shouldn't be too much of a speed issue, unless you're constantly working with the files on the USB drive. I put most of my games on an external hard drive, and the only slowdown I get is during the load sequences (e.g. new campaign/stage/environment), but during run time it's not much of a deal since the application has been loaded in memory.