SD card used for an SSD

[Stan Mikulenka]

The same like offering to plug a video card in the TB...

 

[Weaselboy]

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:.

 

[admanimal]

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.

 

[sth]

all this technical jibber-jabber is great. can't we all just agree that this is a silly idea? 🙄

No, because it isn't.

 

[admanimal]

No, because it isn't.

I think he was talking about using an SD card as an SSD.

 

[sth]

I think he was talking about using an SD card as an SSD.

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.

 

[aliensporebomb]

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.

 

[Freyqq]

You mean slower?

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.