| Scarlett | sorry i afked | 00:02 |
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| Scarlett | will try in about 30 mins when I get back from work | 00:02 |
| Scarlett | I work as a assistant/co teacher in a data course | 00:03 |
| Scarlett | Are SD cards seriously that bad to use as a partition though? | 00:03 |
| Scarlett | Because a USB stick will stick out of the laptop, but the SD card can stay in without me having to keep incerting it before boot | 00:04 |
| tomreyn | Scarlett: There are really tiny usb sticks nowadays. it'd just stick out a third of a thumbnail | 00:10 |
| tomreyn | an example, not a recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RORBNWG | 00:12 |
| genii | Both are suboptimal but USB sticks are generally cheaper to replace | 00:17 |
| tomreyn | maybe the internal ssd is actually an mmc, though | 00:19 |
| tomreyn | the internal "sd", i mean, may actually be mmc | 00:19 |
| genii | True | 00:20 |
| eyeoh | I'd recommend microSD + adapter over most flash drives | 00:21 |
| eyeoh | you'll likely get better performance for the same price | 00:21 |
| eyeoh | and possibly better reliability too | 00:22 |
| Scarlett | pretty sure its a mmc | 00:23 |
| Scarlett | yeah the read speeds on those micro USB's aren't great | 00:24 |
| Scarlett | good idea though because they don't stick out | 00:24 |
| eyeoh | verbatim gives me the ick a bit | 00:24 |
| Scarlett | I only have two usb ports and my trackpad doesn't work, so i use a mouse, im down to one free usb. prob the microSD will be the best | 00:25 |
| eyeoh | but my sample size is small | 00:25 |
| Scarlett | along with the adaptor | 00:25 |
| eyeoh | sounds like you need a hub | 00:25 |
| genii | Or a better machine ;) | 00:26 |
| Scarlett | everything i've used from verbatim has worked perfectly fine, whats wrong with them | 00:26 |
| Scarlett | genii: moneys tight brotha | 00:26 |
| Scarlett | savin every dolaa dollaa helps | 00:26 |
| eyeoh | for whatever little it's worth: https://ssd-tester.com/usb_flash_drive_test.php "In general, Verbatim, Intenso and SanDisk tend to perform poorly, with the exception of SanDisk's Extreme PRO series. Transcend's products are in the middle of the pack, with the 910, 920 and 930 series performing best. Samsung and AXE deliver excellent products." | 00:29 |
| eyeoh | which is also my experience on a very limited sample size | 00:29 |
| eyeoh | Verbatim makes me suspicious because I feel they might prioritise pretty visual design more over performance | 00:29 |
| eyeoh | their branding does look nice and stuff | 00:30 |
| eyeoh | but eh; with these things it probably makes not that much difference. they'll all be slow | 00:30 |
| eyeoh | but samsung will be less slow, as well good quality microSD cards | 00:30 |
| eyeoh | and I have one of the older sandisk extremes too - which benchmarks a bit strangely; it's fast at some things, but the microSDs are faster at others | 00:31 |
| eyeoh | I kind of doubt that the drive will improve your youtube performance that much | 00:31 |
| Scarlett | worth a try eh | 00:32 |
| eyeoh | I have a 1GB RAM Dell Inspiron 8600 and the limiting factor for it with youtube is the CPU and RAM, I think | 00:32 |
| eyeoh | 00:32:11 <Scarlett> worth a try eh | 00:32 |
| eyeoh | I mean, you risk buying cheap and paying twice | 00:32 |
| Scarlett | you can run video playback well on your system? | 00:33 |
| eyeoh | on the Dell Inspiron 8600? no, not at all | 00:33 |
| Scarlett | I mean my sys was fine for what i needed when it came out, and a SD card and adaptor is what like 15 bucks | 00:33 |
| eyeoh | did you mention the specs of your machine? | 00:33 |
| eyeoh | a lot has changed with browsers and youtube | 00:34 |
| Scarlett | intel 2 core process, 2gb ram, 16 | 00:34 |
| eyeoh | I just have strong doubts you'll be able to get any smooth video playback at even 480p | 00:34 |
| eyeoh | what speed? | 00:34 |
| Scarlett | 16gb internals | 00:34 |
| Scarlett | mmc/sd | 00:34 |
| eyeoh | which intel? | 00:34 |
| eyeoh | lscpu should say | 00:35 |
| Scarlett | Celeron | 00:35 |
| Scarlett | 2.7gz per core | 00:35 |
| eyeoh | which architecture | 00:36 |
| eyeoh | I mean which generation/family | 00:36 |
| eyeoh | the other reason I suspect that nano verbatim flash drive will be very slow is because they clearly prioritise size as its main feature | 00:38 |
| eyeoh | there's no commercial incentive to make it fast | 00:38 |
| tomreyn | so, i'm not sure you read this, but no one has mentioned "verbatim" other than you really (yes, i did post a link to a mini usb stick which happened to be branded as "verbatim", it was an example for a small usb stick) | 00:40 |
| Scarlett | N2840, so 6th gen intel | 00:40 |
| eyeoh | hmm 6th gen.. that's more recent than my 4th gen haswell core i3 (desktop) | 00:41 |
| Scarlett | I looked at the other small USBs too all of the don't have great R&W speeds | 00:41 |
| Scarlett | the best one was like 30ish dollars | 00:42 |
| Scarlett | for a 62gb drive which is decent for one of the size and speed but abit much for youtube haha | 00:42 |
| eyeoh | my desktop does 1080p youtube just fine; 16G RAM, SSD, i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz | 00:42 |
| Scarlett | prob the extra ram helps | 00:43 |
| eyeoh | as well as i3wm | 00:44 |
| eyeoh | (window manager) | 00:44 |
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