SD card vs emmc.

[OrangeSunshine]

I got gifted a crappy lenvo Ideapad that has 32gigs of painfully slow emmc storage. I got it given to me because it was essentially unusable after one windows 10 update due to its low specs, so I wiped it and put a light weight linux distro on it. It works alright now, but would I get any benefit from installing an OS on a SD card and basically ignoring the internal memory? 

[SorryBella]

3 minutes ago, OrangeSunshine said:

I got gifted a crappy lenvo Ideapad that has 32gigs of painfully slow emmc storage. I got it given to me because it was essentially unusable after one windows 10 update due to its low specs, so I wiped it and put a light weight linux distro on it. It works alright now, but would I get any benefit from installing an OS on a SD card and basically ignoring the internal memory? 

Which Ideapad specifically?

 

Honestly SD card is quite desperate for a boot drive but it does work for light linux distros considering that OG raspbian are supposed to run on a microsd slot.

[OrangeSunshine]

Its model number is 120s-14iap. It doesn't have any other options for adding storage as far as I can tell.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, OrangeSunshine said:

I got gifted a crappy lenvo Ideapad that has 32gigs of painfully slow emmc storage. I got it given to me because it was essentially unusable after one windows 10 update due to its low specs, so I wiped it and put a light weight linux distro on it. It works alright now, but would I get any benefit from installing an OS on a SD card and basically ignoring the internal memory? 

No, An SD card would be even slower (Because to Terrible Randow R/W). You can install Your OS on a USB 3.0 HDD and it should make it quite a bit faster.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, OrangeSunshine said:

Its model number is 120s-14iap. It doesn't have any other options for adding storage as far as I can tell.

According to here:- 

https://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-ideapad-120s-pentium-quad-core-4-gb-128-gb-ssd-windows-10-home-120s-14iap-thin-light-laptop/p/itmf598akyv5s95z it seems to have a ssd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WhitetailAni]

IIRC eMMC is pretty much the same as an SD card, except eMMC is embedded (hence the name "embedded MultiMedia Card"), so it wouldn't change all that much. If your laptop supports running an OS off of an external SSD I'd advise that.

2 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

You can install Your OS on a USB 3.0 HDD and it should make it quite a bit faster.

Never, ever, EVER install Windows 10 on an HDD. I've used it. It sucks.

[Guest]

Just now, FakeKGB said:

IIRC eMMC is pretty much the same as an SD card, except eMMC is embedded (hence the name "embedded MultiMedia Card"), so it wouldn't change all that much. If your laptop supports running an OS off of an external SSD I'd advise that.

Never, ever, EVER install Windows 10 on an HDD. I've used it. It sucks.

I Said "OS" which means it can be anything other than Windows.

[SorryBella]

4 minutes ago, OrangeSunshine said:

Its model number is 120s-14iap. It doesn't have any other options for adding storage as far as I can tell.

Yep, soldered.

 

As i say before, its kind of desperate thing to do overall and i would keep the SD card as storage extras rather than boot drive.

3 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

No, An SD card would be even slower (Because to Terrible Randow R/W). You can install Your OS on a USB 3.0 HDD and it should make it quite a bit faster.

And make a portable device less portable? Nah. Maybe a portable SSD would work but by that point OP could just sell the laptop and get a used thinkpad off ebay. 

[OrangeSunshine]

2 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

No, An SD card would be even slower (Because to Terrible Randow R/W). You can install Your OS on a USB 3.0 HDD and it should make it quite a bit faster.

The only reason I am keeping it is because it is slim and portable. I could do this, but I would like a small external drive. Any recommendations? 

2 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

According to here:- 

https://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-ideapad-120s-pentium-quad-core-4-gb-128-gb-ssd-windows-10-home-120s-14iap-thin-light-laptop/p/itmf598akyv5s95z it seems to have a ssd

 

That isn't it. It has a celeron porcessor and 32 gigs of emmc not an SSD.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Maybe a portable SSD would work but by that point OP could just sell the laptop and get a used thinkpad off ebay. 

Yeah, A thinkpad would be a much better than this piece of junk.

[OrangeSunshine]

11 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

Yeah, A thinkpad would be a much better than this piece of junk.

It may be junk, but it was free! I agree though.

[OrangeSunshine]

14 minutes ago, Benji said:

This is it. It exists in multiple configurations that might contain an Intel Celeron N3350, Celeron N3450 or Pentium N4200 with up to 8GB of RAM soldered and either 32 or 64GB eMMC or an M.2 SATA SSD with either 128GB or 256GB storage capacity. But I can't tell you whether the eMMC models have the M.2 slot as well or if they're using motherboards with the electrical contacts, but without the soldered-on slot.

Fair enough. I didn't know they had other configs for it.

Well, I'll tear it apart later then and see. Could I solder a m.2 header onto it if it doesn't have one? This laptop is a trash anyway, so I am willing to ascend to the highest level of redneck engineering if need be.

[Roswell]

On 7/12/2021 at 11:40 AM, FakeKGB said:

IIRC eMMC is pretty much the same as an SD card, except eMMC is embedded (hence the name "embedded MultiMedia Card"), so it wouldn't change all that much. If your laptop supports running an OS off of an external SSD I'd advise that.

Never, ever, EVER install Windows 10 on an HDD. I've used it. It sucks.

eMMC performance is vastly better in comparison to removable flash storage.

 

They have an actual hardware controller like an SSD does that gives it superior random r/w performance by several orders of magnitude, hardware level wear leveling/maintenance, etc. Plus they’re soldered directly on the board and have direct access to CPU lanes.