The local gurus claim the USB code in Linux kernel isn't written well enough to be used as a main disk replacement. Unreliable. It deadlocks. YMMV -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
> Sorry for the late reply. Our DSL line was down for five days. > > marbux wrote: > >> Are read/write speeds comparable? I have a vague recollection of >> someone saying USB hard drives suffer from lower data transfer rates. > > USB is slightly slower but not enough to matter, IMO. That's assuming > the drive inside has good performance and is not El Cheapo. > > Today's fastest desktop drives can sustain 100 MB/sec. High Speed USB > 2.0's speed of light is 60 MB/sec. But "typical use" doesn't use full > bandwidth often. Seek speed matters more, and that's effectively > equal for USB and SATA. > >> I'd appreciate a short list of major losses in functionality. Running >> Kubuntu Hardy on Virtual Box/WinXP has worked for me thus far, but I >> haven't tried everything I might want to do and wouldn't want to box >> myself in too tightly. And my fantasy is to in effect swap what is >> host and what is guest. > > Things that might not work on a guest VM: video playback, 3D, special > USB devices such as webcams, phones or cameras, switching monitor > resolution, multiple monitors. I'm a hardware junkie -- I always have > something in my configuration that the original developers didn't > think of. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
