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LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0Posted Nov 26, 2005 0:26 UTC (Sat) by thoffman (subscriber, #3063)In reply to: LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0 by lamikr Parent article: LaCie and Mandriva Introduce GlobeTrotter 2.0
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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