[access-uk] Re: Question on external hard drive
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:16:20 +0100
Hi Chris,
I've had mine about a year now and it was 79 pounds then, so I don't think
it will be much now.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Hallsworth
Sent: Friday 3 October 2008 14:00
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Question on external hard drive
Ah but how much are they? Mine was £29.99.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 1:51 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Question on external hard drive
> 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
>
> ...
>
> --
> Carol
> carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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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