On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent:
>> Anybody have some success stories they can share? Ideas?
>
> I did, long ago, use a portable hard drive, with a straight
> installation onto it, through a firewire connection into a friend's
> Mac.
>
> A hard drive, or SSD these days, would seem better than flash drives,
> they're notorious for quick death.

SSDs die quickly, too, with little or no warning (had to replace at
least 10 in various Macbooks over the years--glad we had backups!) 

> I don't know how well that kind of thing would work through USB into
> any computer, though.  My experience with USB is that it's not good for
> continual and prolonged sessions.  It nearly always hiccups.

Running a system via USB is, well, awful. Firewire, thunderbolt or ESATA
would be far better. There are a lot of ESATA drives out there...not
so many systems that have ESATA ports, unfortunately.