Thread: 256mb for installable aplications?? Am I awake or is this only a bad dream?
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Matan is offline Matan
2009-10-01 , 10:50
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#19
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
However, if it was the first thing you did with your N810, you probably didn't notice that the original root flash is significantly faster than the internal MMC.
Are you sure about that? Even if the physical underlying flash is faster, the internal NAND goes through ECC and compression (JFFS2), so it is unlikely to come out faster in the end.

Both benchmark tests and subjective impression of the boot times suggest to me that the internal MMC is faster.

Also, there are several reasons why you don't want to be swapping on the same card on which your root is on.
That might be so, but since practically every computer in the world does that, and at least one issue for hard drives (seek time) is irrelevant for flash memory, I expect it is not really a great problem.


I think every user of the N900 should move the root to the 32GB, if only for backup. That way, even if you somehow mess your system until it is unbootable (and let's face it, if it is a computer then everyone will do that once in a while), you can still boot from the NAND, and have a working phone.
 

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