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I've ran portable browsers off USB thumb drives, no problem. But running an OS off of a USB drive is just an absolute nightmare. Tried running Ubuntu on a 3.0 pny, disaster. Slow, unstable, waiting forever to load basic things. Plus, thumb drives was not meant to read/write so many times like a hard drive, do best thing is to use a 3.0 USB external hard drive for vmware imo.

miketyson

05-27-2016 12:46 PM

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3.0 USB external hard drive
SSD? is pretty expensive

glacier922

05-27-2016 02:44 PM

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No, for me, just standard hdd 3.0 works great with my VMware/OS, but I guess u can just buy the 240gb standard ssd and put a 3.0 enclosure, should not be more than 160 bucks. 1tb standard hdd 3.0 is about 60 bucks.

miketyson

05-27-2016 02:50 PM

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ssd 3.0 1TB is about $300 on ebay

glacier922

05-27-2016 02:58 PM

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I was talking about standard hdd 3.0 not ssd. 60 bucks on Amazon.

MM78	05-27-2016 03:24 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Play (Post 775027)

Is there a difference in terms of performance - if running VMware from an external hard drive, as oppose to the internal hard drive?

I would assume considering your using USB, that initself caps performance. But I am curious...

So lets say you can run 5 VM's simultaneously from an internal hard drive, can you do the same form external? Without any drawbacks in performance?

There are several factors that come into play:
1. What type of OS is running on the VMWare
2. Speed of External HDD
3. What Programs are running on the VMWare

miketyson

05-27-2016 05:34 PM

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So do you add win 7 on the external hd and run vmware on there using xp on vmware?

MM78	05-27-2016 05:39 PM

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My main OS on my PC/Laptop is Windows 7 64bit, all my VMWares are Windows XP.

miketyson

05-27-2016 06:55 PM

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So do you have to load OS on external hard drive? Or just the folders?

nnah	05-27-2016 07:06 PM

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Ive made accounts with success without vmware just new user on pc and fresh dedicated ip.

MM78	05-27-2016 07:59 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by miketyson (Post 775162)

So do you have to load OS on external hard drive? Or just the folders?

So the way I have my VMWares is each VMWare gets it's own folder, inside that folder are the VMWare files.

Here is how it looks on my External HDD:
http://i64.tinypic.com/5yudlz.jpg

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