I am tired of running low on disk space on the mac internal hard drive and I was thinking I should just put the VM on an external drive (preferablly firewire). The down side of course will be that I can't just flip the cover of my macbook pro open and start working on a virtual machine, I'd have to plug in the external drive. Worse yet, if it needs external power, I would have to find a power outlet. I did find portable firewire drives powered by a USB cable, which may be a good option (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822186191)
I just wanted to ask if anyone made the switch to an external drive and what the performance difference has been? If you have been happy or unhappy about a certain brand external drive, that may also help me and others.
Thank you.