TrolliOlli
March 3rd, 2014, 08:32 AM
Hi all,
So I recently purchased a My Passport Ultra 1 TB USB 3.0 HD (http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra-Portable-External-Backup/dp/B00E055H5O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393831352&sr=8-1&keywords=my+passport+ultra) and my intention is to partition ~200g of it as simple space to store and swap files between Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and then use the rest of the space to install Ubuntu.
This hard drive will almost entirely be booted off of my desktop computer, but there is the chance that I'll carry it around and boot it off other machines. This is where I am in a bit of a dilemma I know I can install a live USB version of ubuntu to make it easy to run off any machine I plug the HD into, but don't these live versions run quite a bit slower than normal installs?
If I were to install ubuntu on this drive just like I would on an internal drive, would I run into issues trying to boot it off machines other than the one I originally had it connected to when ubuntu was installed? My knowledge here is lacking but from the research I've done, this would cause issues as the HD would have all the drivers from my original machine, and thus this would cause issues when it was connected to different hardware.
In the end, I am a C.S. student and I already do a lot of programming work on my laptop (currently running fedora), and I simply want this HD to be a linux system I can run on my desktop. Ideally I want to get the best performance out of this HD, so if it's not really possible to have this be a portable copy of linux while still maintaining performance, I'd be fine leaving this as a "permanent" external hard drive to my desktop.
Thanks for the help, and I appreciate your time.
So I recently purchased a My Passport Ultra 1 TB USB 3.0 HD (http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra-Portable-External-Backup/dp/B00E055H5O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393831352&sr=8-1&keywords=my+passport+ultra) and my intention is to partition ~200g of it as simple space to store and swap files between Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and then use the rest of the space to install Ubuntu.
This hard drive will almost entirely be booted off of my desktop computer, but there is the chance that I'll carry it around and boot it off other machines. This is where I am in a bit of a dilemma I know I can install a live USB version of ubuntu to make it easy to run off any machine I plug the HD into, but don't these live versions run quite a bit slower than normal installs?
If I were to install ubuntu on this drive just like I would on an internal drive, would I run into issues trying to boot it off machines other than the one I originally had it connected to when ubuntu was installed? My knowledge here is lacking but from the research I've done, this would cause issues as the HD would have all the drivers from my original machine, and thus this would cause issues when it was connected to different hardware.
In the end, I am a C.S. student and I already do a lot of programming work on my laptop (currently running fedora), and I simply want this HD to be a linux system I can run on my desktop. Ideally I want to get the best performance out of this HD, so if it's not really possible to have this be a portable copy of linux while still maintaining performance, I'd be fine leaving this as a "permanent" external hard drive to my desktop.
Thanks for the help, and I appreciate your time.