Timeline for Harddisk advice: Run Visual Studio in Windows 7 in Parallels on external drive
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| Aug 1, 2012 at 20:51 | vote | accept | Adam | ||
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| Jul 31, 2012 at 22:15 | comment | added | Adam | Would I need a separate power supply? | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 21:43 | comment | added | Chad Harrison | That would be a good option. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 21:31 | comment | added | Adam | Ok, so something likes this? bing.com/shopping/… But for that I would need a separate power supply wouldn't I? (I'm looking for an option as lightweight as my MBA :) | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 21:04 | comment | added | Chad Harrison | No, I am saying that you can purchase an INTERNAL SATA 7200 RPM laptop drive where you only option is SATA. They make USB to SATA cable if you are unable to find an EXTERNAL USB HD that is better than 5200 RPM. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 20:58 | comment | added | Adam | Wait! Are you saying I can have a USB powered external drive that connects via my MBA USB3.0 port through a USB3.0->SATA convertor cable to a SATA external drive? If so, that would be great and I didn't know that was available :) | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 20:58 | history | edited | Chad Harrison | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2012 at 20:54 | comment | added | Chad Harrison | I will admit that there is a noticeable difference between 5400 and 7200 RPM drives. The smaller/portable externals HD usually have laptop hard drives that is powered by the usb port. I have a 7200 RPM laptop hard drive in my laptop right now, so at the very least, you can use a USB to SATA cable using to make an internal hard drive do the same thing. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 20:45 | comment | added | Adam | Ah, thanks. So the only time I would really notice the difference between SSD and HDD would be at startup of the VM and starting applications such as Visual Studio? Only problem left then is that there don't seem to be too many small 7200RPM external HDD's out there, just the 5400 :( | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 19:57 | history | answered | Chad Harrison | CC BY-SA 3.0 |