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I just bought the latest MacBook Air. I'm running Parallels with Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010. Since I'm running out of disk space, I want to move the VM to an external drive. Since I will be developing in Visual Studio 2010 within the VM the performance of course needs to be good. I assigned 2GB memory to the VM, but now I need to decide what hard disk I need.
I though it might be wise to go for USB3.0, since the MBA supports this. But I can't decide whether I need an SSD drive (which is way more costly) or just a regular drive.
Does anyone have any experience or intelligent thoughts on this?
1Really close to a shopping question... – Chad Harrison – 2012-07-31T19:53:10.397
So, you want to put your VM on an external HDD, which you want to connect via USB3, and you want to know about possible performance differences between using an SSD or a regular HDD as the external drive? – Der Hochstapler – 2012-07-31T20:33:20.243