G+_Talky Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Whats up Padre(and Hippo I didn't forget you)on the last episode of KH you said that USB 3 is faster than the SATA port,then why don't we just ditch the internel HD,you can buy a $176 External USB 3 HD with 4TB and a $27 USB 3 flash drive with 32GB for the OS,now I know that the flash drive isn't as fast as an ssd but it's cheaper you can get one with 250Mb W/R speed,and I know that a flash drive will start losing speed faster but they're cheap and you can replace them without selling youre children and sole and if you are using linux you can get an even cheaper one becouse windows nedds 20GB and and linux only 6GB,Now I know that an ssd is faster and more reliable becouse a usb is NOT made for a lot of R/W seasions but you can use the flash drive for the OS and when it starts to lose speed just buy a new one and clone the old one,I know that it is annoying to replace it(but I think that you can get half an year on it),and while i was writing this I saw that a 32Gb ssd is $40 but I started it and I'm going to finnish,so my question is can you use a USB for the OS and an external HD for storage over an internal HD and/or ssd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Quick point of clarification. USB 3.0 is not faster than a SATA port. It's IS faster then the maximum transfer rate of hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Talky Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 But can it be done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Monte Bourque Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Yes it can. I'm currently testing Mac OSX Yosemite from an external drive over USB 3.0. Works great. A little slower than SATA but works fine nonetheless. I'm using a spinning drive not a thumb drive. A thumb drive would be faster again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 ESXi (Vmware's type-1 hypervisor platform) is actually recommended to be installed on either a USB or Flash drive. The only time things are read from it is when booting, and the only time anything is written to it is when a VM is added or changed. Hyper-V and XenServer can also be setup this way, with those it's recommended to keep the log files on different storage. I've got a USB stick at work that has all of my troubleshooting tools available via different "live" operating systems. Great way to have something portable that gives you more abilities than the computer you happen to be sitting in front of would normally have...... DON'T use it for equipment you don't own! You must be forever vigilant, least the dark side tempt you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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