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advice on solid state hard drive to use for vmware sharepoint vm
I heard that using vmware and a solid state external was a good way to do some sharepoint development. I have no experience with this. Can someone please let me know what stats I should look for and a good model/place to get one?
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Techno, I want totally external and am not opposed to buying a case. What do you mean eSATA? I thought that was internal. Can you get an external connection for that? If so, could I also use usb/firewire if I wanted? So if I switched to another computer, I would be all set?
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ESX or ESXi, SSD?
My rudimentary plan (correct me if this is a terrible idea) was to buy a laptop (probably running win 7) with a lot of memory and run a server 2008 sharepoint vm on an external hard drive. I would be doing this for three reasons. 1. I have heard that having an external solid state drive would drastically improve performance. 2. I don't want to have to run server2008 as my main operating system and have hyper v running on it for my vm. 3. If I did this, my vm would be portable. If I wanted to use it someplace, just plug it in, download vmware (free) and start developing.