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 caughtnot 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.** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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