Would an external HDD work with RetroPie

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probably has been asked before, sorry about that.

will the retroPI kit work with an external HDD for more storage? if so, would it be better to get a smaller portable external HDD or a powered external HDD so its not putting too much strain on the USB port, or would it be better to just get a fairly big sized SD card and swap ROMs around when i want to play a certain games?

am new to this and curious to know, thanks in advance

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Hi Zohan,

The best thing to do would be to setup RetroPie on a bigger uSD card, should you need the space. This isn’t typical, as ROMs are often very small.

If you want to though, there is an official guide here:

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some of the games ill be playing are fairly big, 1GB-5GB big

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Nice, with the above guide you are all set to go then!

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