USB Flash Drives

Quote from gnome:

What are you afraid of the other people stealing... your Holy Grail trading system? :D
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Yeah...that and my super-colossol trading account with my high dollar brand spanking new trade-modified supercomputer! :D

* EDIT: My high dollar brand spanking new trade-modified supercomputer sure didn't keep the ES from blowing through my stop. Bitch!
 
Quote from bronks:

I'm quite ignorant on this subject having never used one. My question is:

Would it be possible to run all my trading apps off of a USB device? I'll be moving into a shared office space environment and even though I will have my own "office" complete with locking door, I still have some reservations about leaving my PC unattended. If I could just take my programs with me, security probably wouldn't be an issue even if my PC get's ripped off or broken into.

Is this possible?
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Yes its quite possible (as long as the apps in quesiton allow you to chose where they get installed). Be sure to chose a USB drive that is fast, they do vary (look at the read and write specs in MB/sec)

The next version of Windows (Vista) will automatically take advantage of any attached flash drives for performance reasons since a solid state drive is usually going to be faster then a traditional hard drive: http://www.everythingusb.com/windows_vista.html

Now, Microsoft wants to give USB an even application-critical task. The company's idea, called SuperFetch, is to accelerate startup times of most used local applications & files by pre-loading them onto a USB stick.

This is technically a way of outsourcing virtual memory to fast NAND memory via USB bus. By enabling the SuperFetch, application will reportedly load 80% faster. This is definitely a novel idea since USB has super fast access time and by the time Vista ships, flash drives are well on their way to hit 50MB/s, plenty fast for caching any files.
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