Re: FN-FORUM: Hardware Upgrade Save all programs

date posted 29th June 2007 10:23

I guess what you're asking is, will running your programs from an
external hard-drive have a detrimental effect on performance?

External drives tend to power up/down more regularly than internal
ones, so you often experience delays while they power back up, they
also tend not to be as fast as modern internal HD's. Theres alot of
other factors which will effect speed too, such as connection type.
I'd stick with running your programs from an internal drive and using
a external drive for data storage.

If you're thinking about portability of the software - I doubt that'd
work, the programs will write entries in the registry when they're
installed, if you put the external drive on to another PC without
those reg entries I doubt any of the software would run.


On 29 Jun 2007 08:41:09 -0000, Adam Reynolds [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> Punters Power wrote:
> > I have the unfortunate task of considering a computer upgrade only 18 month
> > ago the P4 1mb ram was fine! Only fine of course. But now I want to have
> > another machine with duo core and Vista so I want move everything over to a
> > new machine, what i am considering is just having a swapable hard drive on
> > the new machine but not sure if the new machines higher spec would be
> > applied to the aplications running on the plugged in hard drive?
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> What ever you do don't go with Vista. Stick to XP if you can help it.
> Unless of course you can guarantee that all your apps and devices you
> use are Vista compatible.
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> Adam
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