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Using an external hard drive as primary drive
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Depends, as bcastner say if it were a removable drive i.e. a hdd on a removable hdd rack then yes. An external SCSI drive - yes.
You only have to tell the BIOS the boot device priority, then everything will be fine. If your BIOS supports boot from a USB device then an external USB HDD might work, not sure about this though coz i haven't much success over the endeavor.
Here at work, I have the system drive of one of my file servers on a removable HDD, which I also configured the unit to boot via an external SCSI HDD in the event that the system drive fails. Could have used raid but I had an extra SCSI card lying on my shelf so I just plugged it in and used that. Well I'm like that - use available resources first before buying something that's not on my inventory.
That's my take on the subject.
You only have to tell the BIOS the boot device priority, then everything will be fine. If your BIOS supports boot from a USB device then an external USB HDD might work, not sure about this though coz i haven't much success over the endeavor.
Here at work, I have the system drive of one of my file servers on a removable HDD, which I also configured the unit to boot via an external SCSI HDD in the event that the system drive fails. Could have used raid but I had an extra SCSI card lying on my shelf so I just plugged it in and used that. Well I'm like that - use available resources first before buying something that's not on my inventory.
That's my take on the subject.
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