Using USB 3.0 drives for program files.

Can Adobe Creative Suite programs be loaded on an external USB 3.0 Drive not to be used by other computers but to increase the speed of data transfer--if you only have a 5400 RPM drive for instance?

That would still depend on your computer and whether or not it can actualyl achieve and sustain those data rates. Just because it's USB 3, it must by no means be faster. The USB port could revert to a slower transfer mode at any time, there could be other I/O operations on your system, otehr USB devices could sahre the same bus and minimize throughput and any number of otehr things. Also of course you would have to define the drive as a swap/ cache drive in the first place and that would not be possible if it is listed as a removable drive. Photoshop and other programs only use fixed drives, meaning your USB device would have to have a specific driver to bypass this and be listed as an internal drive. So while on paper it may seem liek a good idea, in practice it's much more complicated.
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