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SD card used for an SSD
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all this technical jibber-jabber is great. can't we all just agree that this is a silly idea?
If you search the forums you will find several users who are running a SSD in a FW 800 enclosure and they are very happy with the results. If this is not a setup you would prefer, so be it, but that is no reason to dismiss it as a "silly idea" and give people the :roll eyes:.
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I am one of the people who use an FW800+SSD as my boot drive (not an SD card though ). I have to post this explanation at least once a day:
The thing about SSDs that makes the computer feel so much more responsive is their random read and write speed, which on average is around 30-40MB/s as opposed to 1-2MB/s for a traditional hard drive. FW800 maxes out at about 80MB/s, which is more than enough to handle the 30-40MB/s from the SSD. The only things FW800 will be limiting are long sequential reads and writes, but in reality those are not too common for the average user anyway.
). I have to post this explanation at least once a day:The thing about SSDs that makes the computer feel so much more responsive is their random read and write speed, which on average is around 30-40MB/s as opposed to 1-2MB/s for a traditional hard drive. FW800 maxes out at about 80MB/s, which is more than enough to handle the 30-40MB/s from the SSD. The only things FW800 will be limiting are long sequential reads and writes, but in reality those are not too common for the average user anyway.
No, because it isn't.all this technical jibber-jabber is great. can't we all just agree that this is a silly idea?
The paragraph about SSD+FW800 was also quoted.
In short:
Memory card as a boot drive = Silly idea (for a normal computer).
SSD over FW800 = NOT a silly idea.
Yeah
Somehow this thread reminds me of people who were copying OS X to their 20 gig 4th generation iPod units as boot drives.
An interesting, though not necessarily great idea.
Somehow this thread reminds me of people who were copying OS X to their 20 gig 4th generation iPod units as boot drives.
An interesting, though not necessarily great idea.
a class 10 (fastest type) 32 gb sd card goes at about ~20 mb/s read speeds.
A conventional 3.5" 7200rpm hd goes at about 90 mb/s.
An ssd goes at 200+ mb/s.