Using an external HD dock to run a computer.

[joelwisch2]

I want to run my hard drive outside of my computer in a hard drive doc. Use to be you could do that with a e-sata setup. Can you still do such things in Win10.

 

[Calvin7]

Windows 10 (along with versions of 8 and 8.1) has a feature called Windows to Go. This feature is specific to the Enterprise and Education versions of the OS and allows them to be installed onto a USB drive as a portable Windows Environment.

 

[joelwisch2]

Windows 10 (along with versions of 8 and 8.1) has a feature called Windows to Go. This feature is specific to the Enterprise and Education versions of the OS and allows them to be installed onto a USB drive as a portable Windows Environment.

 

[joelwisch2]

Thank you Calvin.
I want that external hard drive docking point for the purposes of keeping the HD handy, and cool. I use three hard drives.. One for the bank, one for Amazon and Walmart, and one to surf. My Bank and Shopping HD's NEVER see the Emails and I run checks galore to protect them. My surfing HD winds up with a bug a month/ bug a week and picking up notifications is an excellent way to get bugs. In any case I want my HD's out side my computer because the Internal HD Slots are NOT running Sata 6 coupling devices, and I want my WD's to run cooler (faster) with a direct 6 gb SATA connection running out of my MoBo. I have to build the rack, but it is here:
Fenlink 2.5" to 3.5" Internal SSD Hard Drive SATA Drive Converter
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ELRRKW8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
ALL of the HD mounts they are selling connect USB and I don't have experience with it. SATA's I do. AND, I am also reasonably sure the cable has to be a SATA 3 cable to get all you can get. And buy the grey for 6gbs, and the black for the 3.1 connection. When you are fixing.. it helps a lot.

 

[joelwisch2]

Also.. I am now reasonably sure everything upstream and downstream from the HD is hindered with the old SATA 2 connections/connectors. Go SATA 3, and make SURE, you read the part description and that it says it is a SATA 3 connector. It is enormously fast.