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LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0Posted Nov 25, 2005 22:13 UTC (Fri) by lamikr (guest, #2289)Parent article: LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0
This looks from exactly that what I want. I have a work laptop where I can not install Linux. The idea of carrying two laptops while traveling or buying another harddrive that to change are not appealing me. (it is not easy to change hd from my model). So if this relly works then I may buy this...
Has anybody any experiences from the performance of this kind of system?
Mika
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LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0 Posted Nov 26, 2005 0:26 UTC (Sat) by thoffman (subscriber, #3063) [Link] I have a bus-powered USB hard drive. I don't run Linux from it directly, but my experiences with it may be relevant to you.
First of all, you can get a very small, reasonably attractive, external, USB, bus-powered laptop hard drive case with no drive included for very little money. Mine was about $10, to which I added a Toshiba 40 GB laptop drive I had lying around. So, if you want to try this, it can be done very cheaply.
Second, USB2 is pretty fast. It's certainly faster than a live CD on machines with less than 1 GB of RAM. And of course it's nice to be able to save your data.
But the problems are: Not every computer you'd like to do this with supports both USB2 and bus-powered hard drives. Your laptop might not put enough power out on it's USB port to run a hard drive.
And even if your computer supplies enough power, if it doesn't have USB2, it will be very slow in USB 1 fallback mode.
If those are issues for you, a better approach may be a live CD combined with a small USB key just for storing your /home directory. And upgrade the memory in your work laptop to 1 GB if possible.
Best wishes,
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