I have a .iso on my C drive. Does it take longer to install if it's to another drive? If so, would it take even longer if the .iso was on an external drive?
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Anonymous2008-01-25 16:05
Longer than what? And what kind of external drive?
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Anonymous2008-01-25 21:12
if the iso is on your C drive and you're trying to 'install' it to your C drive, it'll be significantly slower because your drive will be busy switching from read/write throughout the install. best to install it from another drive. if using parallel ATA drives, use one on a different controller if at all possible.
external drives are slow as fuck, no matter what you're trying to do with them.
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Anonymous2008-01-26 7:27
>>3
O RLY WELL THANKS I'VE BEEN WONDERING WHY MY EXTERNAL SAS DRIVE IS SO SLOW.
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Anonymous2008-01-27 14:07
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Alright, thanks. In my initial post I said that I had an .iso on my C drive, from it I installed to another drive, E.
So I guess I did the fastest thing. But doesn't that mean that data is moved between the drives which slows the installation process down?
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Anonymous2008-01-27 14:21
Is your E drive on another physical hard disc or just another partition on the same one?
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Anonymous2008-01-27 17:14
reading from one physical drive and writing to a second physical drive can be done simultaneously since they both spin independently. the data transmission speed of moving data from one drive to another drive is negligible compared to the physical constraints of reading and writing to the same drive, where the drive actually has to wait to read the data in the first place, then wait to write it.