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I once worked with a team that worked three 8 hour shifts and flexible seating, so there were about 3 times as many workers as there were desks and each team me
by parsimo2010 6y ago
I once worked with a team that worked three 8 hour shifts and flexible seating, so there were about 3 times as many workers as there were desks and each team member might be sitting at several possible computers. Rather than worry about syncing personal files and profiles across a network, each team member had their own external drive that they used to boot the Mac mini wherever they were sitting. There may have been better solutions for that particular team, but this certainly worked and I’d hate to throw away the option for doing something like that in the future.
And I’ve booted Linux from an external drive a zillion times on a PC. It’s fairly handy to have the option.
- Spooky23 6y agoThat’s really cool. I used to support a similar need with an enterprise tool that cost exponentially more to implement and support.
- londons_explore 6y agoPerformance kinda sucks unless you pay a lot of attention to buying the right model of drive. Most drives are simply designed for storing a few TB's of photos and videos. As soon as you are doing low latency paging to the drive and millions of flush() operations, things bog down pretty badly, even on a modern SSD. Simple things like USB not having any decent way to do shared memory with the host are a big part of it...