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Sep 15
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Brando14100
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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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Sep 18
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Brando14100
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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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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.
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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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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congo wrote
on Sep 18
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, 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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Sep 19
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It's a 7200 RPM I think. Might be faster than my computer, not sure.
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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