I really like the idea of
WinToGo so carried out some quick tests which highlighted a few interesting
results I thought I’d take the time to quickly share.
Many technical notes explain how
to create a two partition USB stick ready for WinToGo, on many machines a
single partition stick works just fine, it depends on the BIOS format of the
device. Booting from WinToGo does take 60 seconds more than booting from a
locally installed Win8, but once booted performance on some USB 2.0 devices was
fine, while on other (5 year old) PC USB 2.0 speed wasn’t usable.
The USB 3.0 machines tested have
all shown adequate speed but I still need to complete some real world testing
around performance.
What I did like was the idea of
trying this on a HP thin client T610 2GB device. These devices out of the box
attempt to boot from USB first to support flashing the onboard ROM, and have
blue USB 3.0 ports on the rear. First attempt booting to WinToGo using the USB
3.0 port failed. So I booted into safe mode and disabled the option to create a
page file on the local device internal drive. Next reboot worked, so I suspect
the default write cache on the thin client was too small and amended this to 600MB which solved the problem.
What I don’t like is the idea of giving
this to users for use on a home PC, which would require the user entering the
PC BIOS and changing the boot order!
I hope to carry out some more testing
across different PC and load up the full set of applications and enable hibernation mode (shutting down the WinToGo machine isn't very user friendly)
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