<DIV>I'm running my desktop computer completely off a USB hard drive with no problems. As long as you have a USB2.0 port and drive then the maximum transfer rate is 480MBPs. When you consider a standard PATA connection is only 133MBPs it's more than enough. Firewire connections are also faster then hard drives can throughput so you should have no problems with a firewire or USB2 HDD. ----- Original Message ----- From: Albert Vilella <avilella@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 2:03 pm Subject: [ubuntu-uk] fast external hard drive To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Hi, > > I am in the market for a fast external hard drive that I could > potentially use to have more than one Linux distro/version on my > laptop. > > Has anyone had good experiences with firewire devices? > > My idea would be to put the most essential IO-intensive parts of the > OS in the internal hard-drive, and put the rest of the stuff on the > external one. > > Any pointers? > > Cheers, > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > </DIV>