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Herr Ball
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I have just ordered a Sata to SD drive converter for my mini itx board and had a couple of questions for those out there that have gone this route.
The converter can handle up to a 32gb card (which I also ordered), I feel this is plenty for the OS, EZ Robot software and my sound files, any input here?
I should be able to run Windows 7 on these cards, right?
Anyone have any trouble with them or any thing that I should know before trying to get it working, I would be grateful for you advice.
Herr
Also i had a link to a website,that has a lot of info on using SATA TO SD with testing a lot of flash cards,and SATA TO SD conveters and witch ones are the best,plus on how to load them,will need to find the link (i guess i have over 1000 ) to find it
@Herr Ball, it'll also pay to google SSD "dos and don'ts" which will greatly increase the life of the drive and, in some cases, get even more speed out of it.
SSD is the way to go, the speed increase on my PC which runs an SSD is insane (both boot speed and access speed, download speeds are greatly increased too) but there are things that should be avoided with SSDs (i.e. don't defrag it ever, move the temporary file location off of it to a different drive if possible, check TRIM functions...)
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/storage/12-ssd-tips-to-optimise-your-drives-performance-943984
Thanks Rich. I saved that link for future reference.
I seem to like SSD better too.faster acess times and read times consair is the brand i like a lot and 32gb or higher is your best bet
BEST to go with the highest you can get newegg is great place to find them and amazon,last one i got was from amazon,same type as neweegg was sellling only $51 cheaper
Agreed, mine is a Corsair Force GT, only 60Gb as it just holds the OS and program files and I cannot fault it, had the best read/write times I could find at the time I bought it too (Read 555MB/s Write 495MB/s & 80k IOPS). Plus it's red so looks awesome (despite being hidden in a big black metal case).
It works out at around 1 per Gb but it's worth it.
Those on a tighter budget, from what I've seen the fastest USB sticks are Corsair too, Sandisk have good reviews too.
SD Card wise, you want a class 10, Transcend, Kingston or Sandisk are all pretty reliable. Class isn't too important if you find a good deal on a decent name brand SD card like a class 4 Kingston should be OK... but remember it wont be as fast as SSD, Sata or even Pata. There are a lot of sites out there with tests on these things, specifically the Raspberry Pi community, it's always worth a quick google before you buy.
same one i bought,found at amazoin had the best proce on 60GB at $63 shipped,now price gone up,lucky i bought 4 of them
update now its $89 at amazon and $85 at newegg