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I just got my first portable hard drive (WD Elements SE 500GB USB 2.0) and I guess I'll be using it for quite a while. So, I just wanted to ask whether I should or should not partition the hard drive. Will partitioning make it slower?
Also, I wanted to know if I could install Linux on the portable hard drive. Is it possible and if yes, is it recommended?
2Well, to be fair, there is one pretty large difference: USB 2.0 is quite a bit slower than internal drives, even with rotating media. Not that it matters a ton after everything is loaded into RAM, but it makes starting up pretty slow. Now if it was USB 3.0, that would be another story, but USB 3.0 is still pretty rare on computers. – farfromhome – 2011-01-30T18:25:10.807
@ grawity, Running an OS from USB 2.0 is dog slow, you did say "installing" though, you might do an edit to clarify that statement. – Moab – 2011-01-30T19:39:13.433