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Old November 18th, 2006, 06:01 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Purchased a "METAL GEAR BOX Substance II". Has a Maxtor HDD. Can I install
an OS on same. I do not know with a USB connection. Thanks.
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Old November 20th, 2006, 02:48 PM     #2 (permalink)
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It depnds on your motherboard. Windows should recognize it as a drive, but your motherboard has to support booting from USB.

Also, it will be super slow by doing that...just a warning.

USB = 60MB/s max
SATA = 150MB-300MB/s max with much lower CPU usage and latency.
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Old November 20th, 2006, 02:52 PM     #3 (permalink)
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Are these HHD SATA?
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