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It ignores any potential USB driver bugs (easy enough to test though). This does assume that you power up the external hard-drive before you boot the laptop (mounting will fail otherwise).

playing MP3’s and movies, reading config files, etc.).

How much slower depends on the connection and for many things even USB 2.0 (at ~30MB/sec) might be fast enough (i.e. Speed will be slower than a direct connection to the SATA or SAS Bus. Windows ships with a default setting which makes access a lot slower but safer, which means Your external hard-drive does not get unplugged mid operation (neither Windows nor Linux likes that). There is no problem with putting /home on an external hard-drive assuming that: If you are using USB 2.0, then you will likely see some very noticeable performance degradation. First up, acejavelin:Īssuming that you have a quality USB port, cable, and external hard-drive, it should be as safe and reliable as using an internal drive, especially if you have USB 3.0. SuperUser contributors acejavelin and Hennes have the answer for us. Is it safe to use an external USB hard-drive for the /home mount in Linux? Will it be reasonably safe and reliable compared to using an internal SATA hard-drive? Is there anything inherently wrong or bad in doing this? Because my SSD hard-drive is small, I would like to use an external USB hard-drive for /home. As I understand it, /home is where the user’s content like documents, downloads, and media will be stored. I am getting ready to give Linux Mint a whirl. The downside is obviously your Safari browser on your PC will behave quicker than on the actual device (especially in regard to javascript performance) it displays plugins and shows fonts that may not be available on the actual iPhone OS a lack of multi-touch support and "snapping" to columns while scrolling no auto-rotation no multi-touch/pinch-zoom widgets will look different etc.SuperUser reader misha256 wants to know if it is safe to use an external USB hard-drive for the /home mount in Linux:

You can also browse iPhone-specific versions of websites that catch user-agent strings directly from your PC. The upside of this is that it's quick, it works on both Windows and Mac, and you don't need the iPhone SDK installed. With this enabled, you can go to Develop > User Agent, and change the user-agent string to the device you want your browser to report to the web server as.īy resizing the window to the appropriate width, you can emulate what the site will look like on the iPhone. If you have Safari on your computer, you can enable the "Develop" menu under Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar.