MojoPac can be installed on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device. However, for the best performance we recommend using spindle-based (hard disk) drives. While MojoPac itself has only 0.4% overhead, the lower performance of most flash drives can make running applications less than optimal.
Best performance
The best performing drives are 7200 rpm 2.5” hard disk drives. In particular, the following two models perform well with MojoPac:
- Western Digital Passport 2.5”
- Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition 2.5"
Highest capacity
These drives won’t perform quite as well as those above, but offer much greater capacity:
- Toshiba 2.5” 250 GB
- Buffalo MiniStation 2.5” 300 GB
Balance between performance and form factor
The following 1.8” hard drive gives adequate performance in a pocket-size form factor
- Apricorn Aegis Mini Hard Drive
- Apple iPod Classic (Hard Disk Drive iPods)
Flash drives
While flash drives have near zero data access times, their sustained read/write times cannot match those of portable hard disk drives. However, if you are committed to using flash drives please look for drives marked “Vista ReadyBoost capable”. In addition, we have found the following drives are adequate:
- SanDisk Cruzer Professional or Cruzer Enterprise
- Corsair Flash Voyager GT (It must be the black & red GT model, not the regular black & blue model.)
- Corsair Flash Survivor GT
- Apacer Handy Steno HT203
- Kingston DataTraverler II Plus
- Patriot Xporter XT
