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would installing a live cd to a usb drive be faster or slower than using the hard drive, because flash is faster than hd, but its a livecd, would it be slower? Join or Log In to answer.

-dbasner (90Q / 5A)
Fri May 23, 2008 7:27pm

The absence of moving parts in USB flash devices allows for faster seek time than is possible with hard drives or optical media, meaning small programs will start faster from a USB flash drive than from a local hard drive or Live CD.

-Kitteh (0Q / 641A) Fri May 23, 2008 7:30pm

However, as USB devices typically achieve lower data transfer rates than internal hard drives, booting from a computer lacking USB 2.0 support can be very slow.

-Kitteh (0Q / 641A) Fri May 23, 2008 7:31pm

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