Booting with a SATA3 - USB Cable

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thoward

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Is it feasible to have an OS on an SSD (Windows, Ubuntu, whatever), connect it to my desktop via USB (a SATAIII - USB adapter cable), and permanently boot the OS that way?

Would this take advantage of the increased SSD boot speeds, or would the odd USB middle-man introduce some kind of bottleneck?

Let me know what you think!
 
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Phillip Corcoran
The first major hurdle is getting Windows installed on an external drive as Windows installer doesn't support this.

You could of course install Windows on an internal drive, then make that drive an external one, that's where the second major hurdle presents itself as the drive letter will change - - hence boot failure.

Overcome that & Windows will take ages to load, as would any applications installed on that drive. Windows will run very slowly as well, even after it's finished loading.

All in all it's a very bad idea (some would say stupid idea). Forget it.
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The first major hurdle is getting Windows installed on an external drive as Windows installer doesn't support this.

You could of course install Windows on an internal drive, then make that drive an external one, that's where the second major hurdle presents itself as the drive letter will change - - hence boot failure.

Overcome that & Windows will take ages to load, as would any applications installed on that drive. Windows will run very slowly as well, even after it's finished loading.

All in all it's a very bad idea (some would say stupid idea). Forget it.
 
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