Is thumb-drive-based Fedora slower than said operating system installed to a hard disk?
Posted on 21 March 2010 by Abidoon
I’ve finally convinced my father to let me install a Linux distribution.
The only catch? It has to be on my USB drive. So, I’m going to install Fedora Live USB.
Will there be any differences in speed compared to hard-drive located Fedora? I don’t want to have a bad impression of the operating system.
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A RAM-based drive (which is a thumb drive) is actually faster than a hard drive, which is why Vista allows you to use one as a disk cache – to speed up disk access.
The difference will be speed – you’ll gain it. (But a thumb drive has a limited number of writes, which is why that’s only a temporary solution. You’ll kill the thumb drive in a year, or a few years. An SD card may be a lot cheaper for the same size – if your computer has a card reader.)
yea it will be slower, of course.
because your using a usb drive to run the fedora live..so say if you dont use it for 5 minutes, come back 5 minutes later and click on firefox, it will have to intialize the usb drive (its all like a cd-rom drive, you put in a cd, let it sit for an hour, go back to it and it has to reload up) same thing. so if you run the live version it will be a tad slower than running the operating system installed on a hd.