Is this overkill? Sd w/ 95 mbs

[IriDium]

(10th Aug, 2013 01:39 AM)Liggerstuxin Wrote:  

(10th Aug, 2013 01:16 AM)IriDium Wrote:  For my money I'd get a small 2.5" external HDD and install onto that. (see post USB installation)

The speeds quoted are usually for sequential read, and as Xbian is mainly short I/O read and writes, you'd never really notice the difference.

So what I needed was one with the fastest short I/o r/w... Hopefully this one is fast at that too...

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(10th Aug, 2013 01:16 AM)IriDium Wrote:  For my money I'd get a small 2.5" external HDD and install onto that. (see post USB installation)

The speeds quoted are usually for sequential read, and as Xbian is mainly short I/O read and writes, you'd never really notice the difference.

Are you recommending this for reliability? Cause I don't need any space beyond what xbian needs.

There have been a lot of issues with corrupt SD cards. Many of these problems should be reduced with the *new* btrfs file system.

However, by moving the O/S off of the SD card onto external media means the SD card is only read at boot, then no longer touched. For that simple case, a class 4 will suffice.

A small USB powered HDD in the UK is only £30 for 100Gb and as it is USB powered it will only draw a max of 500ma - so as green as grass :-)

Obviously a solid state HDD would be better but my first name is not Sheik!