Just wondering if a better SD card will improve rasplex performance/speed. My current setup is nearly perfect but i feel as if the interface is a little slow, would a better Micro SD card help improve this, and have any other advantages?
I’ve been looking at the following Micro SD card as it seems to have one the fastest read/write speeds:
@Seanhonour said:
Just wondering if a better SD card will improve rasplex performance/speed. My current setup is nearly perfect but i feel as if the interface is a little slow, would a better Micro SD card help improve this, and have any other advantages?I’ve been looking at the following Micro SD card as it seems to have one the fastest read/write speeds:
A 4Gb maximum Class 10 microSD card.
I doubt whether the card you mention will give you any noticeable improvement.
I’ve found Sandisk to be the most reliable, I personally use these http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDSDQYA-004G-U46A-Android-MicroSDXC-Adapter/dp/B007XZLMMK/ref=sr_1_21?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1436952062&sr=1-21&keywords=sandisk+microsd+class+10+4gb
@NedtheNerd said:
I’ve found Sandisk to be the most reliable, I personally use these http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDSDQYA-004G-U46A-Android-MicroSDXC-Adapter/dp/B007XZLMMK/ref=sr_1_21?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1436952062&sr=1-21&keywords=sandisk+microsd+class+10+4gb
Thanks for the reply Ned, but could you explain why only a maximum of 4GB?
@Seanhonour said:
Thanks for the reply Ned, but could you explain why only a maximum of 4GB?
The only thing stored on the SD card is the OS (OpenELEC), Rasplex (modified Plex HT) and cached images for the Libraries (to speed up navigation), everything else is streamed from the server and not stored locally. Even with huge Libraries you are never going to use all of the 4Gb.
The only thing written to the SD card in normal operation (once all of the images have been cached from the server, using Pre-Caching) are additional images for any new content you may add, therefore read/write speeds are not quite as important as they would be for other non-client/server medita players (various implementations of Kodi).
If you add a large amount of media to your Libraies after initial setup it is recommended that you run Pre-Caching again.
Regards
@NedtheNerd said:
Regards
Thanks Ned. Sorry but one more thing I’ve read that the RPI2 on-board SD card reader can only read/write at a max of 22MB/s is this correct? Also is that a hardware or code limitation; can the config be edited to change this?
Hello again,
The Raspberry Pi (both 1 and 2) has a 4-bit data connection to the SD card which theoretically limits the maximum data bus throughput of 23.8MiB/s. In reality, the inter-block gap times (card-dependent, which is why Class 10 is recommended)) and protocol turnaround times limit the useable throughput to a bit less than this, so the figure you quoted is about right.
This is a hardware limitation.
Regards
I got this one: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00J297ZQC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00
It’s very fast and it was really cheap.
Thanks for clarifying Ned, ill check out the SD card you suggested 
