External HDD connect to my bourd..

hi.
i would  like to know if i connect Ann external hdd to my MB (usb2?) can i get good performance? i want to use this HDD epically for games but not only.
or do you recommend me to buy another internal hdd?

USB is never fast enough to get good performance.
It's fast enough for backup and such, as USB can do about 40MB/s tops, where a harddisk can do about twice that speed on raw transfer if you forget the caching.

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