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Playing from a jump drive....
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A Thumb-drive, Jump-drive, USB-Key, whatever you call it, will not work properly with the game. For one, it may be expensive to get one that is big enough to hold the game. Another reason is that most Flash drives like that are not fast enough with I/O.
I suggest working from an external hard-drive. Those drives are big enough and built to hold and run programs. eSATA is the best choice if you can use it. Firewire is the second choice, and USB is the third. If your laptop only has a USB port, make sure its 2.0.
Also, find out if you can play the game on work time. Most businesses frown upon that, and it can get you fired. I dont know your business, so check into that before taking the risk.
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My WoW Folder on my laptop clocks in at 16.4GB. Consider that a 16GB flash card will probably have closer to 12-14GB depending on how its measured (1000 bytes vs 1024 bytes) as well as how big the "table of contents" is once its formatted.
I think you could do it, the latest flash drives are probably about as fast as older notebook drives in terms of read/write performance, WoW does mostly reading, I wouldn't try using the /combatlog command thats for sure. And like Federalagent mentioned the IO performace of standard flash is kinda bad. For
close to $100
you can buy the small 30GB SSD drives, and those are blazing fast. I would recommend buying one for your main rig even if you just drop WoW on the disk.
A test on my computer of SSD vs HDD for WoW load times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dt-y27eYk
"table of contents"! Haha.. Don't you mean. "FAT" as in File Allocation Table?
As for the game, it should be more around 14Gb... you larger amount is just because you have all the stupid Patch installation files. Those can be deleted without a problem.
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Wanderingfox
Just play it off an ipod. That's what I used to do XD
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I agree. but these days most people know what a File table is. Especially people who play this game, being the subject is standard in schools these days.
and BTW... if it be NTFS or FAT or any other, its still a File Allocation Table. That's always standard, just different technology that does the same thing.
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