Hard Drive Vs Secure Digital Card App Proformence

[thescreensavers]

I tested this on a laptop with a ATA 100 hard drive and a built in SD card reader.

The hard Drive is a Toshiba MK4025GAS

The Secure Digital card is an SanDisk 512mb card(AX0409WV)

The Apps (HD:SD) Times are in seconds from the Click of the Icon.


Google Earth (4.5:4.0)

Adobe Acrobat (4.0:1.5)

Spybot Seach and Destroy(7.5:6.0)

Evarest(5.0:3.5)


This time is based on my laptop and running proccess.

the laptop specs
Toshiba 2345-S255

P4 2.4ghz 533FSB
40gb HD
768MB RAM

 

[DaveSimmons]

Interesting, better than I'd expect.

Flash can be OK for read performance but write performance is much worse, and the number of times each sector can be re-written is very limited compared to a hard drive.

 

[thescreensavers]

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[bob4432]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Interesting, better than I'd expect.

Flash can be OK for read performance but write performance is much worse, and the number of times each sector can be re-written is very limited compared to a hard drive.

so a flash drive has a limited lifespan?