[access-uk] Re: Question on external hard drive

  • From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:04:39 +0100

I'll remember that next time I need a new one.  Thanks.

--
Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi Carol,

If you get one of those nice 250GB Toughbook Pro hard disks, you
don't need no mains.  Just plug into the USB and go.

All the best

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carol Pearson
Sent: Friday 3 October 2008 13:22
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Question on external hard drive

Chris,

I wouldn't advise it either.  I have an external USB drive and from
time to time the mains plug just falls out of drive so it doesn't
show till I give it some power etc.  Wouldn't want you to get caught
not being able to get in
...


George Bell wrote:
Hi Chris,

For what it's worth, my own preference, if you can, would be
to split the laptop drive into two partitions.

1) For Operating system and Programs.
2) For Data.

I'd then create an image of the first drive, since this
would only suffer major changes when you added or removed
programs. You could even keep that image on the external
drive if needs be.

The external drive can then be used as a total backup of the
Data drive.

To be honest, I very much doubt that running programs from
the external drive will be any quicker.  A USB 2 drive is
certainly not faster in terms of data transfer than an
internal drive.

And to cap it all, if you did configure things that way,
you'd then be essentially married to the external drive and
have to take it with you if you wanted to travel anywhere.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
Hallsworth
Sent: 01 October 2008 16:19
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Question on external hard drive

Hi all, I've just ordered a Trekstor 160 GB external hard
drive from
www.dabs.com. I had an idea on how to use it, but I'd like
your thoughts on
this please. I'd like to run all my software, except Windows
and associated
programmes, on the drive. What will it be like in terms of
stability,
reliability, etc, because I hear that if you install and run
software on an
external hard drive, Windows won't have to use so much
virtual memory and
nor will it need to access the internal hard drive much,
hence the perhaps
increased stability and reliability. I'm not saying my Vista
laptop isn't
stable nor reliable; it's completely the opposite, but
thought maybe I could
increase the performance and decrease the hard drive
thrashing by doing what
I plan to do. All my data will be backed up to this drive as
well. Thanks in
advance for any comments regarding this.

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