Sorry for the late reply. Our DSL line was down for five days.
marbux wrote:
> Are read/write speeds comparable? I have a vague recollection of
> someone saying USB hard drives suffer from lower data transfer rates.
USB is slightly slower but not enough to matter, IMO. That's assuming
the drive inside has good performance and is not El Cheapo.
Today's fastest desktop drives can sustain 100 MB/sec. High Speed USB
2.0's speed of light is 60 MB/sec. But "typical use" doesn't use full
bandwidth often. Seek speed matters more, and that's effectively
equal for USB and SATA.
> I'd appreciate a short list of major losses in functionality. Running
> Kubuntu Hardy on Virtual Box/WinXP has worked for me thus far, but I
> haven't tried everything I might want to do and wouldn't want to box
> myself in too tightly. And my fantasy is to in effect swap what is
> host and what is guest.
Things that might not work on a guest VM: video playback, 3D, special
USB devices such as webcams, phones or cameras, switching monitor
resolution, multiple monitors. I'm a hardware junkie -- I always have
something in my configuration that the original developers didn't
think of.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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