On 10/05/2017 03:30 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: > >> Anybody have some success stories they can share? Ideas? > > > > I did, long ago, use a portable hard drive, with a straight > > installation onto it, through a firewire connection into a friend's > > Mac. > > > > A hard drive, or SSD these days, would seem better than flash drives, > > they're notorious for quick death. > > SSDs die quickly, too, with little or no warning (had to replace at > least 10 in various Macbooks over the years--glad we had backups!) > > > > I don't know how well that kind of thing would work through USB into > > any computer, though. My experience with USB is that it's not > good for > > continual and prolonged sessions. It nearly always hiccups. > > Running a system via USB is, well, awful. Firewire, thunderbolt or ESATA > would be far better. There are a lot of ESATA drives out there...not > so many systems that have ESATA ports, unfortunately. > > > My last laptop had ESATA but there doesn't seem to be any ESATA SSD's > available anymore, it looks like one company made one but they're > discontinued. Newegg lists several ESATA SSDs. Yes, they're (relatively) large boxes that need a cable. > I don't want to deal with an actual HD (SSD or laptop HDD) > if I can help it. I don't want something on a cable dangling from the > laptop when I have have a system on a stick. That's what industrial-strength Velcro is for, my son! :-) My laptop gets the occasional cellular modem stuck to its lid that way. It isn't pretty, but gets the job done. Seriously, I'm just saying that running an OS from any USB device that's on anything older than USB3 is going to suck, speed-wise--and I'm not sure that USB3 is going to improve things a lot. I've never tried it, but I've had no reason to do so. If that risk doesn't bother you, well, have at it! There are some inexpensive, smaller USB SSDs out there you can try. Most do want USB3, but will probably run on USB1.1 and USB2.0. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
