Hard Drive

[Brando14100]

I am looking into getting this external hard drive:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... u=A1289088

Does it look like something that would be good? I have an Inspiron E1705 laptop.

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[Brando14100]

Okay well, I got it, and it works great. I do have a question though. I'm moving programs around, and I would like to know if I need to uninstall and reinstall on the new hard drive, or just cut and paste the main folders of the programs. Thanks.

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[Mushroom_Farmer]

Okay well, I got it, and it works great. I do have a question though. I'm moving programs around, and I would like to know if I need to uninstall and reinstall on the new hard drive, or just cut and paste the main folders of the programs. Thanks.

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In my experiences, merely moving registered programs won't usually work. However benign files (photos, text, etc.) can be copied.
 You could also image your entire drive and move it that way.

[congo]

It depends, some will work, some won't, and some may lose some functionality.

Because the external drive is using a USB interface, it could be as much as ten times slower than your internal drive. Take this into account where performance apps are being transferred across.

[Brando14100]

It depends, some will work, some won't, and some may lose some functionality.

Because the external drive is using a USB interface, it could be as much as ten times slower than your internal drive. Take this into account where performance apps are being transferred across.

It's a 7200 RPM I think. Might be faster than my computer, not sure.

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[MWISimmer]

It's a 7200 RPM I think. Might be faster than my computer, not sure.

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Doesn't matter what speed the drive is, it's the interface bandwidth that counts.

USB: Maximum of 480 Mbits/second
SATA: Theoretical 1.5 Gbits/second
SATAII: Theoretical 3.0 Gbits/second