Re: FN-FORUM: Hardware Upgrade Save all programs

date posted 29th June 2007 15:08


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

that's the one :)

> 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.

got it, stikc the same machine and make sure there is a good data storage
on the machine so it's clean