Disadvantages for booting windows xp from external enclosure hard drive?
Brand: Western Digital
Series: Caviar SE16
Model :WD7500AAKS
Interface: SATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity:750GB
RPM: 7200 RPM
Cache: 16MB
Average Seek Time: 8.9ms
Average Write Time: 10.9ms
Average Latency: 4.2ms
Form Factor 3.5"
If I connect this hard drive through an external enclosure to a computer and boot it with windows xp. What kind of slowness would I experience? Would watching a video be slower if I booted it xp on this usb external enclosure hard drive and watched videos? any other disadvantages from booting it from plugged inside the computer with a sata power/data cable?
I assume all external enclosure cases for hard drives are usb’s.. If not, are there any other better? I don’t know what firewire is..?
Thanks.
Technically this will work, however I do not recommend it. USB is hot swappable (can be unplugged while in operation), but your main operating drive cannot be. If a power failure causes system shutdown, immense portions of data can be lost. This can lead to an unbootable OS, missing files, etc.
Faster forms of external data transfer would be Firewire 800, or ESATA connections. ESATA is very reliant on a solid battery backup as it does not support hot swap at all (the drivers you can download do not work!)
You will need a motherboard that supports booting to a USB device (typically more expensive)
July 31st, 2009 at 10:52 am
it shouldnt work, cause a external hard drive runs off the USB, and a usb can’t run that fast. it has to boot from within your computer
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July 31st, 2009 at 11:26 am
Technically this will work, however I do not recommend it. USB is hot swappable (can be unplugged while in operation), but your main operating drive cannot be. If a power failure causes system shutdown, immense portions of data can be lost. This can lead to an unbootable OS, missing files, etc.
Faster forms of external data transfer would be Firewire 800, or ESATA connections. ESATA is very reliant on a solid battery backup as it does not support hot swap at all (the drivers you can download do not work!)
You will need a motherboard that supports booting to a USB device (typically more expensive)
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