On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
It boots off of the SD card every time. Think of the SD card as the "hard disk".
SSD ... got it, thanks.
What made me wonder is Raspbian seemed to take a long time to get started.
Don't confuse an SD card with an SSD. While both are flash based solid state storage, an SSD can be several orders of magnitude faster than an SD card. A typical consumer grade SSD can do around 500 MB/s. A typical off the shelf SD card will do 10 MB/s. There are SD cards which are faster, if you're willing to pay the price, but even at the highest bracket you're still only talking about 90 MB/s Here's a quick breakdown of the various SD card speed classes: https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/speed_class/index.html Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com