Booting Windows from an SD CARD???

Now, back in the serial ata gen 2 days. When we were

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dinosaur operating systems like Windows 7, a typical high-performance SSD would be rated at around 230 to 250 megabytes per second for reads and writes, which got me thinking when Sony launched SD

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s with a capacity of up to 300 megabytes per second, technically 299 in rights. Could we start Windows from these and what would the experience be like? The ifixit protech tool kit gives you the tools you need to tackle any electronics repair challenge, visit ifixit. com linus at the link below and get yours today, so these puppies have been available for quite a while, but it took almost a year for Sony to send them to us because apparently, along with anything else made of nand flash memory, they've been in there very, very little supply, so what's special about them is not really the capacity, I mean, 128 gigs.

It's worth noting that it's pretty decent for an SSD, you know, when these kinds of speeds would have been reasonable, but they're not because they're SDXC2. So these are uh s2

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s and high end cards, they actually have additional contact pins on the back that allow for these additional speeds. Now what that means is that while they are compatible with devices and card readers that are backward compatible. only sdxc is able to take full advantage of it, we're going to need a special reader, so this is, wow, what a terrible product name, I mean I guess it's descriptive, this is the high speed supported by sony uhs2, don't it says explicitly. an SD card reader, but regardless of the minor details, it's USB 3 and has a compatible slot back there for all those extra pins.

Now the reason we need this is that while SD to SATA adapters, which you know, would allow us to connect this to a SATA. The port actually exists, in fact, we covered a particularly abominable one a moment ago on this channel. It takes 10 micro SD and then gives you a sata interface. Because these products are pretty stupid, they haven't been updated in a long time. it means they are using very outdated drivers, in fact this only works with sata 1 speeds and that was the least of their problems in terms of performance, so we actually need that reader to be able to connect our card to the system.

Oh, we are. I'm also going to need this Windows installed USB, so our installation drive forgot about this so you can install Windows on a USB device. I was actually a little worried because it just wasn't going to show up at all, but you need a special kind of Windows installation, you can't do it by just putting a USB installation disk in the system and installing it, it doesn't like that, so what We have to do is create what is called Windows. to continue with the installation now, I've never gotten that to work before, so yeah, we're going to use a utility called rufus, we're going to grab a Windows 10 image that we downloaded from Microsoft and then we just need to point it at it. on our USB drive and create a boot disk, it's supposed to be here, which is why Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, stopped allowing you to create a Windows to go installer using not the iso version but the build tool version Windows media, so what do you have? the thing to do is find a disk, so luckily, when I was doing an audit of our software around here, I just realized that some of our Windows installations were not 100 properly legitimate, so I ran out and bought a bunch of them otherwise I wouldn't have an original Windows 10 disk because otherwise we've done everything digitally but what you need is a real disk and you need to create an iso from that so that's it what we are going to have.

To do this here we are going to have to go back in time and extract this disk. Well, we have a Windows 10 image that, in theory, should work now that your target drive doesn't have the fix fixed. Oh, what the hell are we doing? I don't want to use this session, we need this, okay, wait, uh no, here we go, no label, 128 concerts, okay, hopefully this won't give us any errors that don't bode well, I think we'll have to have something to eat or something like that, I'm actually really hungry here we are so it took a little longer than usual but from all appearances this is like something pretty normal window c drive sony mrws1 usb stick cool , okay, so let's do some things, then, okay.

I feel a little nervous, actually wait a second like you see something measured in milliseconds. It's probably pretty small but nine thousand milliseconds is nine seconds average response time, the main reason we use SSD controllers and not SD cards is not the read and write speeds because they are sequential, I mean the USB interface It's part of the problem because compared to sata or pci express nvme it's much less optimized for random performance, but the other problem is that an SD card is a relatively simple device, it's just a bit of nand flash and as far as I know, there's not really any logic to it, um compared to an SSD that has this complex controller like this, in many cases it will have like a dram cache and it has a lot of nand flash arrays and then you can read them and write them sometimes all at once. time in a very strategic way to be able to optimize performance and endurance, but even if it's not that bad, I wouldn't actually recommend this as a daily driver system because it would probably kill your SD card very quickly, it's like even though this SD card can read and write 300 megabytes per second, you can see we are at 99 uses in about one mega second in total and that is because it is not optimized, keep in mind of course that this is all on an extreme edition processor eight core or 10 core, 10 chord, excuse me, it's interesting that even when it basically does nothing from zero to one megabyte per second, it still registers as one hundred percent active with average response times in the range of three to five seconds, so we should get some drivers, so we need a target for ourselves.

We have Windows running from an SD card, but how normal is this experience? Can we play with her? We need to launch a game and Steam is still updating, although I think this might be worse than running a mechanical drive, it's writing at a whopping 500 kilobytes per second so it's clearly not doing much, no the graphics driver is not supported. With this version of Windows, how is it possible to tell the difference? It's as stupid as looking at this. There's no, no, there's no discernible difference here, it's just Windows, so maybe it's just that we need a million updates that could be part of what you've been doing in the Background here, 79 of them were downloaded, it's making everything so slow that I actually need Steam to finish, although a full day, a full day, took more than a full day for all those Windows updates to run.

It's completely ridiculous, what we're doing now is it's all updated, the game installed, but I haven't tried it yet, we'll find out how bad or good the experience is, okay, we're in, so first thing you notice, in addition to Razer's gaming software, he managed to let me know. installing it itself is that our screen is scaling correctly, this is great as long as there is no nvidia control panel, although that is strange, but this displays fine, I really thought this was going to be much better without stuff running in the background as is. Measuring it in bytes per second, half a megabyte per second, as far as I can tell, it looks like we're ready to run a game, so I installed Doom, which means my drive is almost completely full, isn't that opening mind-blowing?

I turn on this PC and there is no drive, only USB. I just don't know how long it will take to start it. That's not bad. Okay, I haven't played much Doom, but that seemed like a very useful loading time. What did? Yeah, oh uh oh, we had a problem, that problem, those problems could have been anomalies, this is not bad, I'm impressed, oh, there you go, where did he go to overcome it? Oh okay leg honestly this experience is so much better than I was hoping you know, I think the previous issues with a bit of lag might have just been anomalies because this is really smooth, not bad at all.

Oh, I mean, the game is called Doom, so you know, I think we have our answer, can you do it? The answer is yes, so yes, it's a pretty bad experience all things considered, but it's not designed for that kind of use and they're incredibly fast just for straight reads and straight rights and I still think it's impressive that it works. not at all, I'm talking about the fact that you can run Windows from something this big and it's usable, not to mention okay, compared to when I got into PC the capacity is actually similar to what you could have gotten from something like a Mac store.

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