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I have a laptop with a spare microSD card. I am planning to install Ubuntu 16.04 on that card and use it alongside Windows. What are the pros and cons of running Ubuntu from a SD card? I don't think there are any pros apart from not having to disturb the Windows partitions. I assume lower read and write speed is one drawback. How slow would it be in layman terms? And what are the other drawbacks.
Any recommendations on the card will also be appreciated.
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I have a laptop with a spare microSD card. I am planning to install Ubuntu 16.04 on that card and use it alongside Windows. What are the pros and cons of running Ubuntu from a SD card? I don't think there are any pros apart from not having to disturb the Windows partitions. I assume lower read and write speed is one drawback. How slow would it be in layman terms? And what are the other drawbacks.
Any recommendations on the card will also be appreciated.
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To put it in to perspective, a class 6 SD Card will get speeds of about 10MB/s. A mechanical hard drive should get around 200MB/s. In essence, an SD Card will be so slow, you're probably going to end up throwing it out of the window.
– Lewis Smith
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The only benefit is that you don't need extra cable and box, just an SD. But an external SATA SSD with UASP box will be far more better.
– Alvin Liang
1 hour ago
@LewisSmith The card (class 10) is advertised as up to 100 MB/s. Does that make any difference?
– SDAdam
1 hour ago
@SDAdam - Real world speeds will certainly be below that. I'd argue that it would still be too slow to be worthwhile, but that is just my personal opinion. You'd be better grabbing a USB3 portable hard drive from somewhere and installing Ubuntu to that.
– Lewis Smith
1 hour ago
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I have a laptop with a spare microSD card. I am planning to install Ubuntu 16.04 on that card and use it alongside Windows. What are the pros and cons of running Ubuntu from a SD card? I don't think there are any pros apart from not having to disturb the Windows partitions. I assume lower read and write speed is one drawback. How slow would it be in layman terms? And what are the other drawbacks.
Any recommendations on the card will also be appreciated.
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I have a laptop with a spare microSD card. I am planning to install Ubuntu 16.04 on that card and use it alongside Windows. What are the pros and cons of running Ubuntu from a SD card? I don't think there are any pros apart from not having to disturb the Windows partitions. I assume lower read and write speed is one drawback. How slow would it be in layman terms? And what are the other drawbacks.
Any recommendations on the card will also be appreciated.
dual-boot sd-card micro-sd
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To put it in to perspective, a class 6 SD Card will get speeds of about 10MB/s. A mechanical hard drive should get around 200MB/s. In essence, an SD Card will be so slow, you're probably going to end up throwing it out of the window.
– Lewis Smith
2 hours ago
1
The only benefit is that you don't need extra cable and box, just an SD. But an external SATA SSD with UASP box will be far more better.
– Alvin Liang
1 hour ago
@LewisSmith The card (class 10) is advertised as up to 100 MB/s. Does that make any difference?
– SDAdam
1 hour ago
@SDAdam - Real world speeds will certainly be below that. I'd argue that it would still be too slow to be worthwhile, but that is just my personal opinion. You'd be better grabbing a USB3 portable hard drive from somewhere and installing Ubuntu to that.
– Lewis Smith
1 hour ago
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To put it in to perspective, a class 6 SD Card will get speeds of about 10MB/s. A mechanical hard drive should get around 200MB/s. In essence, an SD Card will be so slow, you're probably going to end up throwing it out of the window.
– Lewis Smith
2 hours ago
1
The only benefit is that you don't need extra cable and box, just an SD. But an external SATA SSD with UASP box will be far more better.
– Alvin Liang
1 hour ago
@LewisSmith The card (class 10) is advertised as up to 100 MB/s. Does that make any difference?
– SDAdam
1 hour ago
@SDAdam - Real world speeds will certainly be below that. I'd argue that it would still be too slow to be worthwhile, but that is just my personal opinion. You'd be better grabbing a USB3 portable hard drive from somewhere and installing Ubuntu to that.
– Lewis Smith
1 hour ago
To put it in to perspective, a class 6 SD Card will get speeds of about 10MB/s. A mechanical hard drive should get around 200MB/s. In essence, an SD Card will be so slow, you're probably going to end up throwing it out of the window.
– Lewis Smith
2 hours ago
To put it in to perspective, a class 6 SD Card will get speeds of about 10MB/s. A mechanical hard drive should get around 200MB/s. In essence, an SD Card will be so slow, you're probably going to end up throwing it out of the window.
– Lewis Smith
2 hours ago
1
1
The only benefit is that you don't need extra cable and box, just an SD. But an external SATA SSD with UASP box will be far more better.
– Alvin Liang
1 hour ago
The only benefit is that you don't need extra cable and box, just an SD. But an external SATA SSD with UASP box will be far more better.
– Alvin Liang
1 hour ago
@LewisSmith The card (class 10) is advertised as up to 100 MB/s. Does that make any difference?
– SDAdam
1 hour ago
@LewisSmith The card (class 10) is advertised as up to 100 MB/s. Does that make any difference?
– SDAdam
1 hour ago
@SDAdam - Real world speeds will certainly be below that. I'd argue that it would still be too slow to be worthwhile, but that is just my personal opinion. You'd be better grabbing a USB3 portable hard drive from somewhere and installing Ubuntu to that.
– Lewis Smith
1 hour ago
@SDAdam - Real world speeds will certainly be below that. I'd argue that it would still be too slow to be worthwhile, but that is just my personal opinion. You'd be better grabbing a USB3 portable hard drive from somewhere and installing Ubuntu to that.
– Lewis Smith
1 hour ago
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I think the limit is the card reader and not the card.
But how about you install a persistent system an that card. This way it's like a live system and more parts are loaded into memory. The boot takes longer but should be faster in use.
Writing to the card won't be very fast. But I think that's an option to try.
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
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Speeds are the only main drawbacks considering SD cards but it can be handled minorly.
Actually, you can improve the performance(speeds) of the SD card through the following steps:-
- Know the read and write speeds of your SD card.
- Download SD card booster app, increase the cache size value and check the box "Set on boot" to avoid the rest of the same.
You could see some improvements.
The other drawback than reading/writing speeds could be:-
- microSD Cards are often affected by electronic corruption, which makes them unreadable, eventually losing your OS.
and I recommend the SD card of good class(Class 10 or above) and a USB 3.0 card reader if at all you want to achieve your goal.
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you please edit your answer and provide the steps to install the SD card booster appplication and how to configure it? Useto format as code.
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I think the limit is the card reader and not the card.
But how about you install a persistent system an that card. This way it's like a live system and more parts are loaded into memory. The boot takes longer but should be faster in use.
Writing to the card won't be very fast. But I think that's an option to try.
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
678311
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
I think the limit is the card reader and not the card.
But how about you install a persistent system an that card. This way it's like a live system and more parts are loaded into memory. The boot takes longer but should be faster in use.
Writing to the card won't be very fast. But I think that's an option to try.
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
678311
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
I think the limit is the card reader and not the card.
But how about you install a persistent system an that card. This way it's like a live system and more parts are loaded into memory. The boot takes longer but should be faster in use.
Writing to the card won't be very fast. But I think that's an option to try.
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
678311
I think the limit is the card reader and not the card.
But how about you install a persistent system an that card. This way it's like a live system and more parts are loaded into memory. The boot takes longer but should be faster in use.
Writing to the card won't be very fast. But I think that's an option to try.
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
678311
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
678311
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
678311
answered 1 hour ago
Kev Inski
678311
678311
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Speeds are the only main drawbacks considering SD cards but it can be handled minorly.
Actually, you can improve the performance(speeds) of the SD card through the following steps:-
- Know the read and write speeds of your SD card.
- Download SD card booster app, increase the cache size value and check the box "Set on boot" to avoid the rest of the same.
You could see some improvements.
The other drawback than reading/writing speeds could be:-
- microSD Cards are often affected by electronic corruption, which makes them unreadable, eventually losing your OS.
and I recommend the SD card of good class(Class 10 or above) and a USB 3.0 card reader if at all you want to achieve your goal.
answered 49 mins ago
Abhinav Kinagi
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you please edit your answer and provide the steps to install the SD card booster appplication and how to configure it? Useto format as code.
– Fabby
12 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
Speeds are the only main drawbacks considering SD cards but it can be handled minorly.
Actually, you can improve the performance(speeds) of the SD card through the following steps:-
- Know the read and write speeds of your SD card.
- Download SD card booster app, increase the cache size value and check the box "Set on boot" to avoid the rest of the same.
You could see some improvements.
The other drawback than reading/writing speeds could be:-
- microSD Cards are often affected by electronic corruption, which makes them unreadable, eventually losing your OS.
and I recommend the SD card of good class(Class 10 or above) and a USB 3.0 card reader if at all you want to achieve your goal.
answered 49 mins ago
Abhinav Kinagi
113
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you please edit your answer and provide the steps to install the SD card booster appplication and how to configure it? Useto format as code.
– Fabby
12 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
Speeds are the only main drawbacks considering SD cards but it can be handled minorly.
Actually, you can improve the performance(speeds) of the SD card through the following steps:-
- Know the read and write speeds of your SD card.
- Download SD card booster app, increase the cache size value and check the box "Set on boot" to avoid the rest of the same.
You could see some improvements.
The other drawback than reading/writing speeds could be:-
- microSD Cards are often affected by electronic corruption, which makes them unreadable, eventually losing your OS.
and I recommend the SD card of good class(Class 10 or above) and a USB 3.0 card reader if at all you want to achieve your goal.
answered 49 mins ago
Abhinav Kinagi
113
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Speeds are the only main drawbacks considering SD cards but it can be handled minorly.
Actually, you can improve the performance(speeds) of the SD card through the following steps:-
- Know the read and write speeds of your SD card.
- Download SD card booster app, increase the cache size value and check the box "Set on boot" to avoid the rest of the same.
You could see some improvements.
The other drawback than reading/writing speeds could be:-
- microSD Cards are often affected by electronic corruption, which makes them unreadable, eventually losing your OS.
and I recommend the SD card of good class(Class 10 or above) and a USB 3.0 card reader if at all you want to achieve your goal.
answered 49 mins ago
Abhinav Kinagi
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you please edit your answer and provide the steps to install the SD card booster appplication and how to configure it? Useto format as code.
– Fabby
12 mins ago
add a comment |Â
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you please edit your answer and provide the steps to install the SD card booster appplication and how to configure it? Useto format as code.
– Fabby
12 mins ago
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you please edit your answer and provide the steps to install the SD card booster appplication and how to configure it? Use
– Fabby
12 mins ago
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) Could you please edit your answer and provide the steps to install the SD card booster appplication and how to configure it? Use
– Fabby
12 mins ago
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To put it in to perspective, a class 6 SD Card will get speeds of about 10MB/s. A mechanical hard drive should get around 200MB/s. In essence, an SD Card will be so slow, you're probably going to end up throwing it out of the window.
– Lewis Smith
2 hours ago
1
The only benefit is that you don't need extra cable and box, just an SD. But an external SATA SSD with UASP box will be far more better.
– Alvin Liang
1 hour ago
@LewisSmith The card (class 10) is advertised as up to 100 MB/s. Does that make any difference?
– SDAdam
1 hour ago
@SDAdam - Real world speeds will certainly be below that. I'd argue that it would still be too slow to be worthwhile, but that is just my personal opinion. You'd be better grabbing a USB3 portable hard drive from somewhere and installing Ubuntu to that.
– Lewis Smith
1 hour ago