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I currently have a laptop with a 5400rpm drive. It has visual studio installed and whilst it’s just ok for working on, I’ve read plenty of places that you can get a pretty nice performance boost from VS just by increasing the drive speed.
I don’t have that luxury, but I was wondering if I might be able to get some performance benefit from storing my visual studio projects on an external USB or FireWire drive and loading them from there, rather than from the internal disk?
The USB disk protocols have terrible performance. I have a 3.5-inch SATA disk that gives me 80MB/s read speeds when mounted through my case. The same disk gives me about 30MB/s when in an external USB enclosure. The limiting factor is the protocol, which can deliver only about half the 480Mb/s you might expect. (I have this from a guy who writes USB stacks for a living.) I’d suggest you borrow a drive and measure to see if you get a noticeable improvement.