Guest hippotech Posted January 13, 2008 Report Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) I have a 8Gb class 4 SDHC card and the write speed is very slow. I partitioned the card while I was playing around with Ubuntu on my eee and it now seems even slower - I'm back with XP BTW. Anyone noticed this or have any ideas what I can do to speed it up a bit. Thanks Hippo Edited January 13, 2008 by hippotech
Guest EdinKali Posted January 13, 2008 Report Posted January 13, 2008 I have a 8Gb class 4 SDHC card and the write speed is very slow. If I am not mistaken, class 4 write speed is only 4MB/sec. You'll want to pick up a class 6 SDHC card if you want faster write speeds.
Guest hippotech Posted January 13, 2008 Report Posted January 13, 2008 You are correct, but I don't think I'm even getting that.....
Guest EdinKali Posted January 13, 2008 Report Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) You are correct, but I don't think I'm even getting that..... Hmm, what is the card formatted as at the moment? NTFS or FAT? Edited January 13, 2008 by EdinKali
Guest hippotech Posted January 13, 2008 Report Posted January 13, 2008 Hi - it is formatted as FAT32 at the moment. It didn't seem to have any other option. It's purely anecdotal, I haven't performed any specific tests, just doesn't seem to cut it. I have temporary internet files on there for example and websites take an age to load. If I move this data back to SSD then it is as fast as my desktop. Hippo
Guest EdinKali Posted January 13, 2008 Report Posted January 13, 2008 Hi - it is formatted as FAT32 at the moment. It didn't seem to have any other option. It's purely anecdotal, I haven't performed any specific tests, just doesn't seem to cut it. I have temporary internet files on there for example and websites take an age to load. If I move this data back to SSD then it is as fast as my desktop. Hippo Well, FAT32 should be faster than NTFS on volumes of 8G or less. I would run some timed write tests with a specified set of files and see what speeds you are getting.
Guest EdinKali Posted January 16, 2008 Report Posted January 16, 2008 Well, FAT32 should be faster than NTFS on volumes of 8G or less. I would run some timed write tests with a specified set of files and see what speeds you are getting. Yo hippotech, I found the info below on the eeeuser forum. You may want to check your bios settings. "I noticed when I set BIOS to OS Installed = Start then HDTune reports about 1MB/s flat. But, when switched to OS Installed = Finished then HDTune reports about 16-25MB/s on the same card."
Guest hippotech Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 Tried this and mine is also showing 16Mb/s - seems my speed issues are just in my head..... :) On my travels though I found that setting the OS Installed to start changes the USB to 1.1. When on finished, USB 2 is restored. The idea, apparently, is to use the lowest common denominator for installation. Hippo
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