Which Portable SSD is BEST for a Portable Boot Drive?

[Duzzy405]

Hello, So I work in an Enterprise environment in the IT field. Now that I see Portable SSD's at a reasonable price, I was wondering which would preform best as a Portable Boot drive. Most that I look into say they are not optimized as a boot device and I should consider a internal ssd instead. I was wondering if any one had any luck with using portable ssds as boot drives. If so which brand are you using?

[Guest]

Why would you want a portable boot drive? Only situation I can think of is being an IT guy that needs to fix really broken pc's, to acces data on a drive with a failed OS on it.

 

In my opinion, the OS should be on a drive inside your device.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What os ya booting?

 

Windows is picky about this.

 

Id just get something like this https://www.wdc.com/products/portable-storage/my-passport-ssd.html#WDBK3E2560PSL-WESN

 

also pxe boot is nomally nicer.

[Himommies]

I've had luck with Linux.

[vorticalbox]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What os ya booting?

 

Windows is picky about this.

 

Id just get something like this https://www.wdc.com/products/portable-storage/my-passport-ssd.html#WDBK3E2560PSL-WESN

 

also pxe boot is nomally nicer.

you know you can install windows on a usb right? It's called windows 2 go.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

you know you can install windows on a usb right? It's called windows 2 go.

but you need enterprise,

[vorticalbox]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

but you need enterprise,

nope, you can use windows2usb to make one. 

[Duzzy405]

So the image is win 7 soon to be moved to win 10. Nothing too serious, just playing around with some ideas. Such as, since most of the laptops we provide are the same models I was thinking if we were waiting on parts to repair a users machine. We could use the portable ssd to load the users image via USMT so they continue to function as if they were on there own machine while on a loaner laptop. I know that USB3 is still slower than Esata but not to the point where I believe the end user would notice. I'm not sure if the performance  of the ssd would out weigh that comparied to a HD on esata.

[Electronics Wizardy]

19 minutes ago, Duzzy405 said:

So the image is win 7 soon to be moved to win 10. Nothing too serious, just playing around with some ideas. Such as, since most of the laptops we provide are the same models I was thinking if we were waiting on parts to repair a users machine. We could use the portable ssd to load the users image via USMT so they continue to function as if they were on there own machine while on a loaner laptop. I know that USB3 is still slower than Esata but not to the point where I believe the end user would notice. I'm not sure if the performance  of the ssd would out weigh that comparied to a HD on esata.

Pxe boot seems easier though. Do you have that setup?

[NumLock21]

Standard Windows OS cannot be installed on to a external drive.