Performance Expansion Slot vs HDD

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    Bossy45

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    I have a question to the Acer One Expansion Slot.

    I have a Acer One A150 with a 160 GB HDD. So normaly no more space needed. But:

    Is it worth to buy a SDHC Card and put it in the Expansion slot to get a fast drive for games or the windows swap file?

    Or in other words:

    Is the performance better then normal HDD that is installed allready? ( I know that performance depends on card typ, but maybee there is a overall statement to this topic -SDHC vs HDD)

    Greets

    Bossy45
     
    Bossy45, Jun 28, 2009
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    no ideas?
     
    Bossy45, Jul 4, 2009
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    Rich in ILM

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    eboostr shows a hdd read speed of 7.3 MBs and a SDHC read speed of 17.7 MBS. Also saves a little power.
    http://www.eboostr.com/
     
    Rich in ILM, Jul 4, 2009
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    I too would be interested in this. Is there a performance benefit from moving my swap file to an SDHC card - i am hoping so, but guess that even class 6 SDHC cards are slower than the AAO SSD, as slow as it is?
     
    Andysan, Jul 31, 2009
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    Subjectively (I haven't timed it) my class 6 4GB SDHC cards seem slower than my HDD.
    I'm running without a swap partition, but I don't use a lot of ram-hogging apps at one time.
     
    RockDoctor, Aug 9, 2009
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