Has anyone tried installing Logos on an SD card as if it were an SD? (E.g., http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-128GB-Memory-LSD128CTBNA400/dp/B007BZRXK2/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1361560394&sr=1-1&keywords=256gb+sd+card )Does the "high speed" 60Mb/s represent an I/O rate faster than 7200rpm disk for indexing?
Would it be worth the investment?
Can Logos even be installed on it, if we added one?
Thanks for your counsel!
Does the "high speed" 60Mb/s represent an I/O rate faster than 7200rpm disk for indexing?
You'll get more than 60Mb/s from a 7200rpm drive, so it wouldn't be worth it. USB 2.0 drives will be similarly slow. You'll get 400Mb/s from a fast SSD. You can test the speed of your existing disk using HD Tune (the free version is fine).
That's an interesting little program, Mark. I'm not smart enough to know all the ins/outs of it (or disk-drives).
My HD read at around 100 or so; the SSD around 150-180. But my 8g microSD was 10! Whoa. Get that horse and buggy off the highway!
You'll get more than 60Mb/s from a 7200rpm drive, so it wouldn't be worth it.
Thanks, Mark!
New i7 laptop with discrete video card coming... it'll have a 7200rpm (latest SATA) 750Gb hybrid drive (16Gb onboard SSD). But I won't have much (any?) influence on what goes on the internal SSD. It'll pick based on frequency of use or somesuch. No SSD was available. And I don't want to crack the case to put an SSD in until it comes out from under warranty.
<sigh> it's always something, isn't it?
Thanks again!
You'll get more than 60Mb/s from a 7200rpm drive
Actually, I have a 7200rpm (SATA 2) drive on my old/current laptop... it's achieving 60Mbps transfer, based on the stats of that HD Tune program. (Thanks for that, btw). When the new laptop arrives, I'll check it on HD Tune & make a decision about an SD chip, then.
There were even higher speed SD chips available, but they're pricier...
If the higher speed SD chips would support L5, how big does one need them to be in order for indexing to be performed on it?
If I understood the question, I don't think it needs to be higher. I have currently 1,007 books (I've returned a couple of hundred of them but they have not been deleted from my drive). My C: drive is an 83 GB formatted, NTFS SSD and I have only Windows, Logos, Chrome and Adobe Reader installed on it. 47.3 GB free. Everything else goes to the 7200 rpm external HDD (250 GB which is much more than I need).
That all depends on the size of your library. You should check the size of your entire Logos folder (that includes the program, the resources and the index). My Logos folder (which has lots of resources) is 38.4Gb. Then check the size of your indexes. They'll be included in the former figure, but you need to know their size to make sure you've got enough room for reindexing. The indexes are in the following folders (my sizes in parentheses):
I would recommend the minimum size of a Logos installation to be the size of your entire Logos folder, plus the size of the index again (to allow for reindexing), plus enough for the largest resource download you might make (say 1-1.5Gb), plus plenty of spare, just in case.
In my case that's 38.4+1.4+8.7+0.1+1.3+1.5 = 51.4 - so a 64Gb drive should be adequate for me. You might even get away with 32Gb if you have a small or medium library.
Has anyone tried installing Logos on an SD card as if it were an SD? (E.g., http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-128GB-Memory-LSD128CTBNA400/dp/B007BZRXK2/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1361560394&sr=1-1&keywords=256gb+sd+card )Does the "high speed" 60Mb/s represent an I/O rate faster than 7200rpm disk for indexing? Would it be worth the investment? Can Logos even be installed on it, if we added one? Thanks for your counsel!
UPDATE 1 year later....
Now that the laptop is out of warranty, I just completed the replacement of the Seagate 750Gb hybrid drive with a Samsung 850 Pro 512 Gb SSD. It's a bit faster, but not as much as I'd thought it would be.I'm also still trying to figure out how to get the laptop to stop using a RAID controller & start using AHCI on a USB 3.0 disk controller...
Finally, does anyone have insight on what a properly configured SSD will achieve on starting Logos with all resources closed?
Has anyone tried installing Logos on an SD card as if it were an SD? (E.g., http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-128GB-Memory-LSD128CTBNA400/dp/B007BZRXK2/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1361560394&sr=1-1&keywords=256gb+sd+card )Does the "high speed" 60Mb/s represent an I/O rate faster than 7200rpm disk for indexing? Would it be worth the investment? Can Logos even be installed on it, if we added one? Thanks for your counsel! UPDATE 1 year later.... Now that the laptop is out of warranty, I just completed the replacement of the Seagate 750Gb hybrid drive with a Samsung 850 Pro 512 Gb SSD. It's a bit faster, but not as much as I'd thought it would be.I'm also still trying to figure out how to get the laptop to stop using a RAID controller & start using AHCI on a USB 3.0 disk controller... Finally, does anyone have insight on what a properly configured SSD will achieve on starting Logos with all resources closed?
I am running a Transcend SSD (512gb) and I start to a blank layout in 12-13 seconds. Much faster than with the HD this laptop came with. I would imagine there are other variables such as processor, memory, etc. that affect the startup time. But I think you will find a significant difference with your SSD
My original hdd died on my laptop, installed a 256 SSD and with 6gig of Ram on a AMD A6 Quad Core, Logos opens fully functional in about 20 seconds with about a dozen resources, copy bible verses, Exegetical and Passage Guides open. The performance has been a huge improvement over the old 5400 rpm drive! Wonder how powerful it would be on a newer i5 or i7 system....
