SD cards for Pinebook Pro
12-23-2019, 11:40 AM
I bought a bunch of cards that meet the A1 standard (the new standard to help qualify the speed of SD cards for use as Android auxiliary storage).
It made a big difference for me although I can only speak anecdotally. Anyhow using my Debian installer to these new A1 cards just feel snappy and comfortable. When I used one of my older class 10/UHS-1 cards it was very obviously much slower to complete the install process (and running a debootstrap from scratch was downright sluggish).
The workload the PBP is likely to put on SD cards is likely to be similar to Android (or at least more like Android than a camera) so using the A1/A2 standard makes sense to me.
It made a big difference for me although I can only speak anecdotally. Anyhow using my Debian installer to these new A1 cards just feel snappy and comfortable. When I used one of my older class 10/UHS-1 cards it was very obviously much slower to complete the install process (and running a debootstrap from scratch was downright sluggish).
The workload the PBP is likely to put on SD cards is likely to be similar to Android (or at least more like Android than a camera) so using the A1/A2 standard makes sense to me.