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I am planning to install Ubuntu 11.04 on a portable hard drive (no external power supply, typically 5400 rpm, USB 2.0, 250 GB). This way I wont have to install apps on every machine I work on. I will just boot off this HDD whenever I am working. I have seen lot of similar questions and have gained some idea of how to do it.



What i need to know is -




  1. What will be the os boot speed, and response time of general applications like firefox, eclipse/netbeans, gimp, inkscape etc? Will there be noticeable difference than internal hard drives? At least it should not drag as it does with live-USB using a regular usb stick.

  2. Given that I will be using it heavily, are portable HDD more prone to wear and tear?

  3. I will make atleast 3 partitions, one for OS (ubuntu), one for home, and one for other data that I want to be visible from windows (like media, photos etc). If I format the external hard drive's 1st two partitions in ext4 and 3rd in NTFS, will that be fine with windows and linux?

  4. Should I create swap space?

  5. Is there any particular ubuntu distro, thats optimized for such (by storing all caches on RAM and mimimizing HDD writes)



references:




  1. Installing Ubuntu on external hard disk

  2. Modification on USB bootable drive

  3. External USB hard drives - what speeds should be expected?


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I've my Ubuntu installed on 500GB external drive and here are my observations:
My computer specs: 2.4 GHz 8600 stepping processor and 4GB DDR2 RAM




  1. I didn't see any significant difference for boot time until I switched to development branch kernel however even then booting time never been more than 2 minutes. As for applications I don't use InkSpace however I use gimp and there is no noticeable difference there either.


  2. I don't know yet -- using it for last 6-8 months.


  3. Partitions should be no problem.


  4. I don't have swap as I've 4GB RAM and I never overuse it, depends on how much RAM you have.


  5. I don't know. I'm using Ubuntu11.04 its working good for me as of now.




In any case its portable HD we are talking about you can try installing it use it for a while if you don't like it just format it and use for general purpose :)



Good luck :)


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