Comments on: Is thumb-drive-based Fedora slower than said operating system installed to a hard disk? http://www.weez.com/2010/03/is-thumb-drive-based-fedora-slower-than-said-operating-system-installed-to-a-hard-disk/ Solving everyday practical LAMP problems... one at a time Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:54:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jesse http://www.weez.com/2010/03/is-thumb-drive-based-fedora-slower-than-said-operating-system-installed-to-a-hard-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-7082 jesse Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:56:39 +0000 http://www.weez.com/2010/03/is-thumb-drive-based-fedora-slower-than-said-operating-system-installed-to-a-hard-disk/#comment-7082 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. 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.

]]> By: colanth http://www.weez.com/2010/03/is-thumb-drive-based-fedora-slower-than-said-operating-system-installed-to-a-hard-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-7081 colanth Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:11:42 +0000 http://www.weez.com/2010/03/is-thumb-drive-based-fedora-slower-than-said-operating-system-installed-to-a-hard-disk/#comment-7081 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.) 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.)

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