I am going to get a MacBook Air but the hard drive space is fairly small. I just wanted some clarification on installing games onto a hard drive. If I install steam on my hard drive will the downloaded games also install onto it? And will they run ok off it?
Steam – If I install Steam on the hard drive will the downloaded games also install onto it
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Best Answer
Yes and sort of. External hard drives tend to run slower because of their interface/cable (usually USB).
As far as installing games go, you can install steam anywhere on your laptop and set up the game libraries/install locations somewhere else, like an external drive. Go to
Settings > Downloadsto set up game libraries. Keep in mind you need to have read/write and execute permissions (don't know if OSX gives you execute permissions on external drives).