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Marcus G. Daniels

USB 3.1 is really annoying in some ways.  For large drives with USB C connectors, adapter cables don’t work, and even those USB 3.1 host adapters (PCI cards) may not work if they have USB-A outputs instead of USB-C.   New laptops that have USB-C natively should be ok, and when it works it is fast and quite slick.

 

If the only goal is to have Windows as an option, I suggest one of the virtualization packages.  For Macs, VMware Fusion is about perfect.

 

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Russell Standish-2
For Linux, VirtualBox works a treat. I would say Windows 10 works better on
Virtual Box than on real hardware, at least according to people I know
who do the latter.

NB Windows 10 has some known DHCP issues. I generally just end up
configuring a manual IP on a private network or a NAT just to get
around connectivity problems. But such things are almost trivially
easy to do on the fly with Virtual Box.

Cheers


On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 04:02:54PM +0000, Marcus Daniels wrote:

> USB 3.1 is really annoying in some ways.  For large drives with USB C connectors, adapter cables don’t work, and even those USB 3.1 host adapters (PCI cards) may not work if they have USB-A outputs instead of USB-C.   New laptops that have USB-C natively should be ok, and when it works it is fast and quite slick.
>
> If the only goal is to have Windows as an option, I suggest one of the virtualization packages.  For Macs, VMware Fusion is about perfect.
>
> From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 9:55 AM
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> Subject: [FRIAM] How to install Windows on an external drive | TechConnect
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> Interesting idea.
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