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But surely no one stores games on flash drives :) (Why would anyone?) They are to be installed on disk and work from them. Also I don't see much point in storing episodes on SSD when HDD would be enough (unless you do some video editing).

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With combined capacity and transfer rates (via USB 3.0) like these, I don't see any reason not to store games on a flash drive like this.

Why would someone? A lot of people are now using SSDs as their system drives. Given the cost of SSDs, a lot of people end up with 128/256GB system drives, which doesn't give them much space for non-system storage.

Transferring, for instance, the steamapps directory between machines is an utter pain over anything other than a very fast network. It's not that I want to store big stuff there, it's that I want a fast conduit.

I like putting games on flash drives, be it for transferring or sharing with friends. DRM and installation requirements nowadays (ie "unportable" games) make that impossible though. I don't buy modern games.

edit: oops, the op talked about modern games.

ahh but you don't live in Canada, $50+ a month of 75gb of bandwidth, its much cheaper to store steam backups on drive, especially if your friend already has a local backup, then to download again.

Additionally moving from university, internet came with residence, to moving back home, I find myself reverting back to using usb, before I used to stream all my music/video via youtube and other networks, now I download, used dropbox a lot of files, but the now I've gone back to usb. It's like travelling back in time...

Switch to Teksavvy/Acanac. $35-45 for unlimited 6-15 Mb.

I switched to teksavvy and it's great. It was twice as fast a Rogers and cheaper. I routinely use about 250GB/month on teksavvy.

I had a lot of problems with quota when I was on Rogers because my VPN connection to work could use up 30G/month when working remotely for long periods of time doing 60-70 hour weeks.

are you on teksavvy cable or dsl? they setup cost is so high around $180, that i dont want to take cable which is at higher speed in my area 28mbs, while dsl is 15mbs, and realize there is too much congestion in the shared hub, $180 down the drain

Try Acanac, they don't have a setup fee, and they have a 30 day money-back guarantee. Their customer service is pretty bad though, so be prepared to be persistent if you have issues. Once it's up though... works great.

Setup was free when transferring from Rogers cable, I just had to buy a cable modem which I bought from Canada Computers.

Teksavvy has never been to my house, it was just a phone call to set up the cable modem.

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