I wouldn't say that it IS recommended to run recon-all on an external hard-disk, but in theory this should be fine. There may be a bit of an I/O bottleneck but I would think with the USB3.0 interface it wouldn't be too bad.

On 02/17/2017 03:06 PM, Shane Schofield wrote:

Hello,

I am new to image analysis and I have a basic question: is it recommended to run recon-all on external hard-disks (USB3.0) to save space on my laptop? Will there be any issues with regards to the performance of recon-all? I have just finished a recon-all on 1 subject and it took me 10 hours. System spec is Mac Book Pro 13” 2016 model: 2 ghz Intel core i5. 8GB ram.

Thank you.

Shane

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