Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hard drive (installation)

[David Klann]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:50:48 -0700 you corralled some electrons and wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Henry W. Peters <hwpeters@××××××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Hope this is a good list for my question/problem (please someone direct me
> > to another list, if not).
> >
> > I purchased a HP Pavillion desktop, AMD64 computer on the premise that I
> > could add an additional HD (verified by an HP "technician")... on which I
> > plan to install Gentoo... I (finally) got the additional hard drive... but
> > now it appears that you CANNOT add an additional internal HD... (no room, no
> > slot, unless perhaps one does modifications, then (most likely, there goes
> > the warantee?)).
> >
> > So my question is: will an external HD work (I do audio
> > editing/recording/graphics) as a system/work space? & more importantly, will
> > Gentoo install on such a HD (external, usb 3))
> >
> > Thanks much for any advice/help.
> >
> > Henry
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>    If you really need a new drive (i.e. - the one that came with your
> machine is just too small, etc.) then I'd look at imaging the drive
> that's currently installed, putting in a larger drive, partitioning
> this larger drive to hold both Gentoo and what ever M$ OS you might be
> using, and then just work to get both OS's working but keep the
> current drive on the shelf as a backup. This way you could always go
> back to what you have.
>
>    Just an idea.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>

To the point of the original poster: I currently use a Lenovo W520 laptop.
I have a USB3 external hard drive that I mostly use for backup, but I have
occasionally edited some audio (small audio files using Audacity) directly
on the external drive. Again, it's not the OS drive, so temp files and such
are most likely stored on the internal drive, but I know that Audacity
operates in the directory in which the project is located, so it's still
doing a fair bit of I/O to that external drive.

Hope this helps!

  ~David