Chris
I agree with Rick about the external hard drive. Your best bet to reduce
virtual memory swapping is to install more memory. Use your external drive
for backups.
Take care,
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 11:20 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Thoughts on External Hard Drive
Hi all, I've just ordered a Trekstor 160 GB external hard drive from
www.dabs.com. I had an idea on how to use it, but I'd like your thoughts
on
this please. I'd like to run all my software, except Windows and
associated
programmes, on the drive. What will it be like in terms of stability,
reliability, etc, because I hear that if you install and run software on
an
external hard drive, Windows won't have to use so much virtual memory and
nor will it need to access the internal hard drive much, hence the perhaps
increased stability and reliability. I'm not saying my Vista laptop isn't
stable nor reliable; it's completely the opposite, but thought maybe I
could
increase the performance and decrease the hard drive thrashing by doing
what
I plan to do. All my data will be backed up to this drive as well. Thanks
in
advance for any comments regarding this.
--
Chris Hallsworth
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