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Planning a portable bootable disk

Planning a portable bootable disk - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

Planning a portable bootable disk

- [Instructor] You can create a portable Linux environment to take with you and use on different computers. But before we start that process, there are a few things to consider. First of all, booting an entire operating system from USB will not be as fast as booting from an internal disk. Even with USB 3 the bandwidth you'll have for your disk is much lower than an internal bus. So thing will be a little bit laggy or sticky, and that can be annoying. But there's not really any way around that. Using a slower bus like USB 2 will be even slower. And I wouldn't recommend using a system booted from USB 1 if you can avoid it. The flash storage in USB thumb drives is much slower than regular SSD media, and even slower than a regular hard drive. So you can get a little better experience putting in SSD or magnetic hard drive in the USB enclosure. But that's bulkier than a nice little USB drive. So my recommendation here is to use…

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