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Aelius
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Is anyone taking advantage of this? if so how are the speeds with booting and running the system?
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i dont think no one runs windows on a USB Stick,,,
However, many run Linux on USB...
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Two reasons to avoid USB booting windows:
- Windows is far too large to boot from USB. USB3 booting is sketchy anyway, and USB2 speeds would give boot times of a few minutes, and that's if the full 480MB/s is used, which is rare.
- Windows also likes to access the disk without you asking; USB drives are not designed for constant r/w access like that.
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Cheers guys,
Solid state HDD it is. Was thinking of ways to eliminate the use of a SATA port for the OS, might use E-SATA instead.