On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: > >> Anybody have some success stories they can share? Ideas? > > > > I did, long ago, use a portable hard drive, with a straight > > installation onto it, through a firewire connection into a friend's > > Mac. > > > > A hard drive, or SSD these days, would seem better than flash drives, > > they're notorious for quick death. > > SSDs die quickly, too, with little or no warning (had to replace at > least 10 in various Macbooks over the years--glad we had backups!) > > I don't know how well that kind of thing would work through USB into > > any computer, though. My experience with USB is that it's not good for > > continual and prolonged sessions. It nearly always hiccups. > > Running a system via USB is, well, awful. Firewire, thunderbolt or ESATA > would be far better. There are a lot of ESATA drives out there...not > so many systems that have ESATA ports, unfortunately. > My last laptop had ESATA but there doesn't seem to be any ESATA SSD's available anymore, it looks like one company made one but they're discontinued. I don't want to deal with an actual HD (SSD or laptop HDD) if I can help it. I don't want something on a cable dangling from the laptop when I have have a system on a stick. Thanks, Richard
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