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From: BertieBigBollox on 13 May 2010 10:42 Is this going to be too slow? Compared to say an internal IDE (PATA) or SATA drive?
From: Doug W. on 13 May 2010 11:36 "BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com" <bertiebigbollox(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:0ffa8ca9-9c8f-40ab-a4c2-8a52a8e12b69(a)o8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com... > Is this going to be too slow? > > Compared to say an internal IDE (PATA) or SATA drive? == I think you know what the answer is already. ==
From: Mark Adams on 13 May 2010 12:07 "BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com" wrote: > Is this going to be too slow? > > Compared to say an internal IDE (PATA) or SATA drive? > . > Depends on what the apps are. Only you can decide what is "too slow".
From: spamlet on 13 May 2010 14:13 "BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com" <bertiebigbollox(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:0ffa8ca9-9c8f-40ab-a4c2-8a52a8e12b69(a)o8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com... > Is this going to be too slow? > > Compared to say an internal IDE (PATA) or SATA drive? Depends how old, how full, and how big, your internal drive is. I was amazed at how fast files transfer to our usb 'MyBook' 500gig drives. These are much faster than our on board 40 gig drive. S
From: Twayne on 13 May 2010 15:52
In news:0ffa8ca9-9c8f-40ab-a4c2-8a52a8e12b69(a)o8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com, BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com <bertiebigbollox(a)gmail.com> typed: > Is this going to be too slow? > > Compared to say an internal IDE (PATA) or SATA drive? It's going to vary. I thought it would be painfully slow but my sister started doing it as she began running out of disk space. Most programs worked fine with only a longer time to get started than otherwise. Once the program is read into RAM, it all worked fine. So, it will work, but it's a bandaid solution. The proper solution is to either get a larger drive or add another drive to the system. An external drive is much better put to use as a backup holder so your backups are off the computer and can be completely disconnected from the computer. Backups should never reside on an internal drive. And if you aren't doing any kind of backups, you're definitly making a mistake there as you'll find out when you have to manually reinstall everything when something finally trashes that drive on your or it simply dies of old age. This is a subject with a lot of ymmv and differing opinions; everyone has to decide for themselves what they want to do. Personally I'd urge you to get a larger drive or install and additional drive and not use the external drive to install programs to. Caveat: Even though you install program/s to the external drive, that does not mean that it is ALL on the external drive. Certain parts of programs HAVE to reside on the boot drive, and those will still be put on the boot drive. Plus of course, your computer now becomes dependent on the external drive and cannot run those programs withou it. It's just one more piece of junk to bring along to have it worked on, adjusted, repaired, moved to another room, whatever. HTH, Twayne` |