New external usb drive

[Christian G]

my sister bought me an external usb drive (seagate ultra touch backup plus 2 tb) and i want to use it as my new drive, for boot, os, and games/apps. what usb port; color. should i plug it into? i have a sabertooth 990 fx motherboard and my current drive is an internal hdd.  (ST500DM0 02-1BC142 SATA Disk Device 500 GB) or should i just not use the external drive at all? any help needed, thanks!

[HQuan]

USB can be really useful to your commputer, like:

• Make your computer boot faster (ReadyBoost)
• Recover your password
• Recover your entire OS in case something goes wrong (espically with the damm HDD)
• Use as an unlock key for your computer

But the USB drive you say is too large, just install 16GB recovery on the disk is not worth. You can use it as a second drive!

 

[BondiBlue]

That's a mechanical hard drive, so it would be no better than your current hard drive. In fact, your internal drive is a 7200 RPM drive, so it could outperform the external drive, not to mention the fact that it's an internal drive and it can't accidentally be unplugged. 

 

If you're looking to speed up your computer then you'll need to get an SSD for your boot drive. 

[Christian G]

4 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

That's a mechanical hard drive, so it would be no better than your current hard drive. In fact, your internal drive is a 7200 RPM drive, so it could outperform the external drive, not to mention the fact that it's an internal drive and it can't accidentally be unplugged. 

 

If you're looking to speed up your computer then you'll need to get an SSD for your boot drive. 

oh okay, so the external drive is pretty much useless for just using it as my main. i'll buy an ssd later and just store this one away somewhere if i ever use backups. the ssd someone told me to get a while back was the "870 QVO SATA III 2.5" SSD 2TB" so i'll get that. thanks though!

[dizmo]

22 hours ago, Christian G said:

oh okay, so the external drive is pretty much useless for just using it as my main. i'll buy an ssd later and just store this one away somewhere if i ever use backups. the ssd someone told me to get a while back was the "870 QVO SATA III 2.5" SSD 2TB" so i'll get that. thanks though!

Curious, why would you want to use a USB external drive as your boot drive?