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12-07-2005, 06:01 PM
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Disadvantage of external hard drive?
almost every price for external hard drives i have seen are cheaper than the internal hard drives. is the any disadvantage to using a external. Im talking about no even having internal hard drives.
EDIT- i may be wrong i wasn't comparing brands. |
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12-07-2005, 06:08 PM
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Actually an external hard drive will be more expensive than the same hard drive as an internal drive. I don't know for sure if you can use just an external HD without an internal one, but I doubt it.
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12-07-2005, 06:10 PM
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What are you going to use it for?
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12-09-2005, 02:20 PM
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I dont think you can boot from an external HD
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12-09-2005, 03:22 PM
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You cannot install an operating system on an external harddrive (well you can try, but it wont boot from it
 ) because the HD is connect via USB and not connected to the IDE/SATA port on the motherboard.I use my WD external for storage and such (mainly movies and music - all of which I own). Or if i need to some spring cleaning, I'll transfer important files to there and reinstall the OS to clean all the junk out.
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12-09-2005, 03:23 PM
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Actually I *think* on some systems you might be able to boot from a USB device. I've got an option on mine for that. But for obvious reasons, it's not really a good idea. Imagine accidentally unplugging the hard drive.
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12-09-2005, 03:33 PM
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12-09-2005, 03:39 PM
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you can definently boot from usb on some systems
dont know anyone that does it though |
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