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| Thread ID: 127129 | 2012-10-05 04:13:00 | SSD vs USB Flash Drive mounted OS | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 1305319 | 2012-10-05 04:13:00 | I'm using a 40GB Intel SSDSA2CT040G3 solid state drive in my laptop. Needless to say I like the performance but keep running out of space. Instead of buying a larger SSD, could I buy, say, a 16gb low profile USB Flash Drive and run my OS (Windows 7 Home Premium) off that, and just use the SSD for storage? What would be the performance penalty? |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 1305320 | 2012-10-05 04:27:00 | *rolls up newspaper* No, bad boy. Um i would not advise it due to these reasons. A. the flash drive will be slow... very slow B. it is highly unreliable and has a much more limited no. of read/writes to it especialy if you leave the page file on it and you regularly use all your ram (with 8gb that shouldnt be a problem) c. you will need to have more data than just the os on it. i have a 60gb SSD as my c drive and i try to use it as only that but still i somehow have only 15gb of free space, as im fairly certain programs still use the drive for storing some files d. say you have 2 identical flash drives pluged into your pc next to eachother, 1 contains your c drive and the other contains your important files. you wake up late for your presentation and quickly grab your USB... but its the wrong one DUNDUN DUUUUUUUUN. then your pc is screwed. e. you will have to format it to ntfs as fat32 is limited to 4gb and who wants to go though the hassle of formatting. in conclusion: NO |
Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305321 | 2012-10-05 05:42:00 | I'll second that. Store your data on a spare HDD, just keep the OS and core apps that you want to start up quickly on there. MP3s and pictures and documents etc go on a slower normal HDD :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1305322 | 2012-10-05 05:58:00 | Thirded. While you could run your OS from a USB drive, it's not advisable. You will also find it to be horribly slow. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1305323 | 2012-10-05 06:05:00 | DON'T DO IT MAN. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305324 | 2012-10-05 06:18:00 | Well, you could do what I did. I have a 32GB SSD and with dual boot Win 7 and Ubuntu. SO I bought myself a 32GB SD Card for storing data, provided your laptop has a SD card slot. www.trademe.co.nz |
ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1305325 | 2012-10-05 06:56:00 | no mention on the avg read/writes it gets? | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305326 | 2012-10-05 07:03:00 | You'd be better using a USB or other media device for your storage. The performance penalty of running your OS off a USB stick is ridiculous, especially for windows. You'd be better off with a current-gen mechanical drive, to be frank, rather than a USB2.0 drive. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1305327 | 2012-10-05 07:24:00 | Windows To Go USB key in Windows 8 could be an option, the UFD keys are not really low profile though. Speed and perf is fine off these drives, they are basically SSD drives in a USB key interface | nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1305328 | 2012-10-05 08:07:00 | Windows To Go USB key in Windows 8 could be an option, the UFD keys are not really low profile though. Speed and perf is fine off these drives, they are basically SSD drives in a USB key interface Presumably you're talking about using USB3.0 devices? Because if you're referring to running it off USB2.0, we have very different opinions on "fine" performance :P Not to mention, as far as I'm aware, this function requires Windows 8 Enterprise, which most home users won't have. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
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