Flash Drive Vs. External Hard Drive?

[bigstrickler]

What is the difference between a Flash drive and external hard drive besides external hard drives having more space? Also could you install a program onto a external hard drive seeing its big enough and run that from the external harddrive? if so could you unplug the external hard drive and go to a different computer and run the program on there also? thanks guys

 

[corkyg]

An external hard drive is the same as an internal hard drive. It is an electro-mechnical device with precision moving parts and circuitry.

A flash drive is a piece of non-volatile, solid state memory with controlling electronics. No moving parts.

YUes, I run several programs off of an external drive. And , it can be loved to a different computer and run provided it has been installed on the different computer.

There are some programs that are self contained, and all you need is a link to them.

 

[Aluvus]

An external hard drive is probably larger, can probably store more, and can definitely handle more read/write cycles.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
An external hard drive is probably larger, can probably store more, and can definitely handle more read/write cycles.

I thought that was the OP's premise:

"What is the difference between a Flash drive and external hard drive besides external hard drives having more space?"

 

[bigstrickler]

yeah corkyg your correct and thanks for your knowledge! they're too expensive for me though I thought they'd be a lot cheapier heh