Can you run an OS on an external harddrive??? Please help!?!

[Coin-Girl 123]

Hello all,

I am still a bit fuzzy and really need some clarification. Can I boot OS from a jump drive, then install it to an external USB 1TB hard drive and run the OS off of the external hard drive, just for a month or two? Would it still function properly and mine the exact same? I have plenty of external hard drives and jump drives, just no standard HDD or SDD.

If I am correct this will be fine, just a bit hard on the hard drive, but shouldn't affect any speeds or hash rates, right?

If you could please help I would be very grateful

 

[jonnybravo0411]

Hello all,

I am still a bit fuzzy and really need some clarification. Can I boot OS from a jump drive, then install it to an external USB 1TB hard drive and run the OS off of the external hard drive, just for a month or two? Would it still function properly and mine the exact same? I have plenty of external hard drives and jump drives, just no standard HDD or SDD.

If I am correct this will be fine, just a bit hard on the hard drive, but shouldn't affect any speeds or hash rates, right?

If you could please help I would be very grateful

 

Honestly, I did not understand what the external hard drive means is SSd Disk. Or what does the transition disk mean. You can explain more clearly.

[Coin-Girl 123]

Like an external USB hard drive -- like this (below). Rather than an internal hard drive like you find in a PC tower.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-my-passport-1tb-external-usb-3-0-portable-hard-drive-blue/5605506.p?skuId=5605506&cmp=RMX&extStoreId=27&ref=212&loc=1&ksid=ce6081f9-7b0b-44f3-8340-ed06bcb3cb24&ksprof_id=8&ksaffcode=pg199138&ksdevice=c&lsft=ref:212,loc:2

[Rodrigo Santos]

With USB 3.1 you almost reach the same read and write speeds of an internal hard drive, but with previous USB versions, the SO will run very slowly.

[dothebeats]

Yes, I'm currently using Ubuntu 14.04 off of a USB drive with a capacity of 256GB on exFat partition. It seems to do most of the basic things you'd do on a PC however I wouldn't recommend it that much if you're looking for fast write speeds since most of the USB drives they ship today don't deliver speeds same as the traditional hard disk drives, especially 2.0 USB sticks. It can work, though you need to switch to a traditional drive in order to prevent corrupted data (which happens frequently on USB sticks) in the future.

[Coin-Girl 123]

ah i see thank you all. It won't affect mining speeds and hash rates for now though correct? Or at least not majorly so, right?

[kahc]

ah i see thank you all. It won't affect mining speeds and hash rates for now though correct? Or at least not majorly so, right?

If you are using the same hardwares then the performance wont change much, however if your external driver is fucked up and run really really really slow. Then it may have a problem catching up.