Simviation Forum - Hard Drive

Sep 15^th, 2008 at 10:41pm

Brando14100 Ex Member

I am looking into getting this external hard drive:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/System_Drives/productdetail.aspx?c=u...

Does it look like something that would be good? I have an Inspiron E1705 laptop.

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Reply #1 - Sep 18^th, 2008 at 6:52pm

Brando14100 Ex Member

Okay well, I got it, and it works great. I do have a question though. I'm moving programs around, and I would like to know if I need to uninstall and reinstall on the new hard drive, or just cut and paste the main folders of the programs. Thanks.

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Reply #2 - Sep 18^th, 2008 at 7:07pm

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Okay well, I got it, and it works great. I do have a question though. I'm moving programs around, and I would like to know if I need to uninstall and reinstall on the new hard drive, or just cut and paste the main folders of the programs. Thanks.

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In my experiences, merely moving registered programs won't usually work. However benign files (photos, text, etc.) can be copied.
You could also image your entire drive and move it that way.

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Reply #3 - Sep 18^th, 2008 at 11:32pm

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It depends, some will work, some won't, and some may lose some functionality.

Because the external drive is using a USB interface, it could be as much as ten times slower than your internal drive. Take this into account where performance apps are being transferred across.

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Reply #4 - Sep 19^th, 2008 at 3:15pm

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congo wrote on Sep 18^th, 2008 at 11:32pm:

It depends, some will work, some won't, and some may lose some functionality.

Because the external drive is using a USB interface, it could be as much as ten times slower than your internal drive. Take this into account where performance apps are being transferred across.

It's a 7200 RPM I think. Might be faster than my computer, not sure.

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Reply #5 - Sep 19^th, 2008 at 4:24pm

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It's a 7200 RPM I think. Might be faster than my computer, not sure.

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Doesn't matter what speed the drive is, it's the interface bandwidth that counts.

USB: Maximum of 480 Mbits/second
SATA: Theoretical 1.5 Gbits/second
SATAII: Theoretical 3.0 Gbits/second

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