01-19-2009, 05:18 PM

ok i'm not sure exactly what an external is..
but say i get an external harddrive.. that is for both win. and mac..and i decide to put 90% of my things off my comp onto there..

having it connected to the comp or w.e will i have to constantly move it from my ExHD to the comp or no??

example: burning a DVD, if the file is on the ExHD, can it burn from that to the empty disc?? or do i have to re put it back onto the comp in order to burn?

01-19-2009, 05:50 PM

if you have files on an external, they will act pretty much as they would as if they were on your computer. you may experience a slight performance hit when dealing with very large, or large bunches of files depending on what you're doing with them. so anything you normally use a lot, you should probably keep local.

01-21-2009, 11:58 AM

Further to what Eric has advised, using firewire vs USB will also make a difference. To your specific example, you will almost certainly find that burning a file from the external HD to a blank DVD will be slower than directly from the internal HD. How much slower? Depends on a number of things, but if you're not in a hurry, it'll work okay.