Hi all,
I just got a pretty fast laptop (2Ghz core2duo, radeon x1700, etc) and as usual, the laptop hard drive is the bottleneck. I'd like to remedy that with an external drive. I've determined that the best currently-available connection between an external drive and the laptop is eSATA. That's no problem-I can easily get an eSATA expresscard adapter, and I can easily get an external hard drive housing to hold a sata internal drive of my choice. Here's where it gets tricky: I'd like to have the external drive be bootable, and NO ONE seems to make an eSATA expresscard that supports booting.
Unless I severely misunderstand, that means that I can't get the speed boost benefits of the 7200 rpm drive for the operating system (XP pro). Short load times for windows files are one of the main reasons I want a fast external drive in the first place. Does such a card even exist, or am I stuck with the OS on the laptop's slow internal drive?
I just got a pretty fast laptop (2Ghz core2duo, radeon x1700, etc) and as usual, the laptop hard drive is the bottleneck. I'd like to remedy that with an external drive. I've determined that the best currently-available connection between an external drive and the laptop is eSATA. That's no problem-I can easily get an eSATA expresscard adapter, and I can easily get an external hard drive housing to hold a sata internal drive of my choice. Here's where it gets tricky: I'd like to have the external drive be bootable, and NO ONE seems to make an eSATA expresscard that supports booting.
Unless I severely misunderstand, that means that I can't get the speed boost benefits of the 7200 rpm drive for the operating system (XP pro). Short load times for windows files are one of the main reasons I want a fast external drive in the first place. Does such a card even exist, or am I stuck with the OS on the laptop's slow internal drive?