-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partitioning
- From: dsw32952 <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:16:39 -0400
Low end laptops typically have 4500 or 5400 RPM hard drives. All my
externals are at least that fast so I doubt the performance suffers too
much. In high end laptops you pay extra for better cooling systems so
you can have faster hard drives and processors.
Flash drives are indeed S L O W. That is why you don't see
read/write speeds listed on the packaging. You also don't see
"Optimized for Vista Ready Boost" very often either. I wonder if one of
those Hi Speed SD memory cards sold in the photo center would be any
faster. I have a card reader built in to my new desktop and a portable
one for the other computers.
EddieB wrote:
> Also you should weigh the performance of the portable device and how often
> you are going to access it. Many portable HD's are slower than the average
> internal HD's. Also, the performace of some flash memory sticks are
> surprisingly slow, especially when writing. I'm not sure why, but writing
> large amounts of data to my memory sticks are really slow unless I tell my
> anti-virus program to skip USB portable devices.
>
> Ed
>
>
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