fastest 4GB SD card for BeagleBone?

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Hi all,

What's the fastest media I can use in the BeagleBone micro SD slot?
Class 10 microSD? Is there anything faster?

I'm using a 4GB microSD rated at 18 MB/s read speed - just wondering if
there was anything even zippier available that would work with the
BeagleBone.

- Mike

[Koen Kooi]

The subjectively fastest card I came across is a 32GB class 10 from Transcend, it beats the crap out of the stock kingston one.

[Andrew Bradford]

There's lies, damn lies, and manufacturer provided ratings on SD cards.

A good choice is to buy a handful of promising looking cards and test
them. Find some promising cards from Arnd's big list [1] and then test
them using flashbench [2].

[1]: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/Projects/FlashCardSurvey
[2]: http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/arnd/flashbench.git;a=summary

The Samsung Plus series rate well with flashbench but I've found the
SanDisk class 6 Mobile Ultra 4 GB cards to feel faster. The 8 GB
version is slower than the 4 GB version in my tests and real world feel
even though the newer version of the 8 GB card is rated class 10 (versus
only class 6 for the 4 GB version).

-Andrew

[Bill Mar]

Special Computing has known-good microSD cards tested with the BeagleBone

https://specialcomp.com/beagleboard/bone.htm#34100

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[Koen Kooi]

Op 20 sep. 2012, om 22:25 heeft Bill Mar <bil...@specialcomp.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Special Computing has known-good microSD cards tested with the BeagleBone

That lists the exact same transcend card that I mentioned :)

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> https://specialcomp.com/beagleboard/bone.htm#34100
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> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <m...@avtechpulse.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What's the fastest media I can use in the BeagleBone micro SD slot? Class 10 microSD? Is there anything faster?
>
> I'm using a 4GB microSD rated at 18 MB/s read speed - just wondering if there was anything even zippier available that would work with the BeagleBone.
>
> - Mike
>
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[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 09/20/2012 04:33 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
> Op 20 sep. 2012, om 22:25 heeft Bill Mar <bil...@specialcomp.com> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Special Computing has known-good microSD cards tested with the BeagleBone
>
> That lists the exact same transcend card that I mentioned :)

Thanks everybody for the tips!

- Mike

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 09/20/2012 04:33 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>

> Op 20 sep. 2012, om 22:25 heeft Bill Mar <bil...@specialcomp.com> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Special Computing has known-good microSD cards tested with the BeagleBone
>
> That lists the exact same transcend card that I mentioned :)

Transcend SD cards do seem to be the best in my tests. Here are some
benchmarks of readily available cards:


[root@xena flashbench]# ./flashbench -a /dev/sde

apacer AP-MSD04GCS4P-TM Class 10 industrial:
align 1073741824 pre 2.91ms on 3.6ms post 2.67ms diff 812�s

Kingston SDC10/32GBSP:
align 1073741824 pre 2.12ms on 2.37ms post 2.12ms diff 253�s

Kingston SDC4/4GB:
align 1073741824 pre 1.89ms on 2.15ms post 1.94ms diff 237�s

SanDisk Ultra 16 GB MicroSDHC Class 10 UHS-1, SDSDQUA-016G-U46A
align 1073741824 pre 1.46ms on 1.6ms post 1.39ms diff 178�s

Transcend 16 GB Class 10 microSDHC Flash Memory Card TS16GUSDHC10
align 1073741824 pre 1.42ms on 1.57ms post 1.31ms diff 198�s

Transcend 8 GB Class 10 microSDHC Flash Memory Card TS8GUSDHC10
align 1073741824 pre 1.37ms on 1.58ms post 1.37ms diff 214�s


- Mike

[Andrew Bradford]

On Wednesday 26 September 2012 13:14:07 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> On 09/20/2012 04:33 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Op 20 sep. 2012, om 22:25 heeft Bill Mar <bil...@specialcomp.com>
het volgende geschreven:
> >> Special Computing has known-good microSD cards tested with the
> >> BeagleBone
> >
> > That lists the exact same transcend card that I mentioned :)
>
> Transcend SD cards do seem to be the best in my tests. Here are some
> benchmarks of readily available cards:
>
>
> [root@xena flashbench]# ./flashbench -a /dev/sde
>
> apacer AP-MSD04GCS4P-TM Class 10 industrial:
> align 1073741824 pre 2.91ms on 3.6ms post 2.67ms diff

> 812盜

>
> Kingston SDC10/32GBSP:
> align 1073741824 pre 2.12ms on 2.37ms post 2.12ms diff

> 253盜

>
> Kingston SDC4/4GB:
> align 1073741824 pre 1.89ms on 2.15ms post 1.94ms diff

> 237盜

>
> SanDisk Ultra 16 GB MicroSDHC Class 10 UHS-1, SDSDQUA-016G-U46A
> align 1073741824 pre 1.46ms on 1.6ms post 1.39ms diff

> 178盜

>
> Transcend 16 GB Class 10 microSDHC Flash Memory Card TS16GUSDHC10
> align 1073741824 pre 1.42ms on 1.57ms post 1.31ms diff

> 198盜

>
> Transcend 8 GB Class 10 microSDHC Flash Memory Card TS8GUSDHC10
> align 1073741824 pre 1.37ms on 1.58ms post 1.37ms diff

> 214盜

Can you run the full suite of tests to find the eraseblock size, open-au
linear, and open-au random? And then mail the output to the flashbench-
results mailing list for each of those cards?

If you look at some existing mails to that list, it should give you a
good overview of how to determine the values that matter. The simple -a
test only does a read timing test to help find the eraseblock size, it
doesn't show anything about the write performance.

The flashbench-results list is very friendly. Arnd's really helpful and
sometimes even I can know what I'm talking about :)

As an example of a flashbench mail I sent earlier this year, see [1].

[1]:http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/flashbench-results/2012-August/000322.html

-Andrew