I am going to uni in the summer and going to switch to laptop. However, I want to keep this HDD as it has anti-virus, all my saved games, music, movies etc.etc.etc. so I have looked at a few enclosures and found a decent USB 2.0 enclosure for my SATA II drive. Now, thing is, I am going to get my laptop from Dell (maybe - hate them but i want a customised one - other company ideas welcome.....) but I have heard not all laptops are useful loading OS from USB as the slowness and the compatability. Basically I want some ideas of what I should do, go ahead with the plan? Screw the plan, transfer data to laptop and use that? Thanks!
how much data needs to be transfered, if there isn't too much you could transfer to data with either DVD or USB pen, or if you want to transfer a huge amount of data you will probably be better off buying a cheap NIC (Network Interface Card) for your desktop system[ot]any laptop you buy will probably have a NIC built in[/ot]
My advice, find a way to get your desktop to uni - i carted two with me while at uni, i'd have gone crazy on a laptop Failing that use the sata drive to hold data but i wouldnt load the OS from it, HUGE bottleneck.
How are you planning on loading the OS from the drive? Why not just use the internal HD as the OS drive (which will work, since transferring the windows installation isn't possible) and use the drive purely for data.
Well I was planning on getting it in September but obviously I am going to have Vista on it, so if I wanted to go back to XP I thought using this SATA drive would be useful as I can then use it when I want to be bugless. I was planning on building a new rig and taking that with me, but I don't particularly want it in the Halls, rather leave it till 2nd year + when i'm out in the town. As for the transferring - 50GB will take an awfully long time. I have heard that some mobo's allow you to boot from USB, which is why I first considered the option.
