Would you install your primary working OS on the ext. FW HD?

[ddma]

If you are a PowerBook 667 user with an ext. FW 80GB (7,200rpm) HD, would you install OSX on it and for primary use?

Any idea?

 

[ulrik]

Never.

Too slow.

 

[ddma]

I am now on the ext. HD and application launching time is faster. Indeed, the Ext HD is faster than the Int HD. 7.5ms vs 12ms seek time, 7200rpm vs 4200rpm. The only different is the interface speed. Firewire vs UDMA66. But the HD won't run on full speed when it is reading small files, right? So, I think an FW HD is faster than the Int HD.

Any idea?

 

[ulrik]

Hmm...I will make some benchmarks with Harddisk Toolkit later, but the throughput of Firewire - in my experience - is always slower than IDE/ATA...

 

[ksuther]

I definitely wouldn't has my boot disk be an external drive, especially on a laptop. Can you imagine the horror you of you shifting the computer an inch or so and suddenly the firewire cable comes out? Bad times. Or say the power fails, I wouldn't want to have to deal with those problems, and the internal drive is probably faster, just because it's internal

 

[homer]

Originally posted by ulrik
Hmm...I will make some benchmarks with Harddisk Toolkit later, but the throughput of Firewire - in my experience - is always slower than IDE/ATA...

Will GigaWire change all that, or will it still lag behind ATA?

 

[dricci]

Originally posted by homer
Will GigaWire change all that, or will it still lag behind ATA?

Despite what SpyMac and MacOS Rumors, GigiWire is still unknown. It's _not_ the next firewire.

I wouldn't make my boot system a firewire disk. I'd install the system on the PowerBook and then possibly locate the home folder on the firewire drive. Although that'd still get messy.