Timeline for Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
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| Jul 11 at 17:07 | answer | added | nigel222 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 11 at 15:45 | history | edited | MonkeyZeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 11 at 14:59 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @iBug check the comments | |
| Jul 11 at 13:35 | comment | added | iBug | @MonkeyZeus The OP didn't indicate the form factor of their SSD, so how did you come up with M.2 (it could entirely be 2.5" SATA). | |
| Jul 11 at 9:53 | answer | added | MechMK1 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 11 at 4:06 | comment | added | phuclv | ReadyBoost helps in case of HDD because SD and USB flash devices have much better latency than HDD, therefore small accesses were redirected to the flash first which helps in case of heavy memory usage, but since you already have SSD, it won't help | |
| Jul 11 at 3:59 | comment | added | Davidw | You can certainly get workstation quality PC's for a lot less if you buy off lease systems, and they will be FAR better suited for what you are doing. | |
| Jul 11 at 3:17 | answer | added | Coder | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 11 at 0:55 | history | edited | MonkeyZeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 10 at 17:56 | answer | added | DL444 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 10 at 15:17 | history | edited | MonkeyZeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 10 at 12:07 | comment | added | Zimano | Best thing would be to sell it. Get proper hardware if you want to develop for Windows. But since we're all from different (financial) backgrounds, I can understand if that would not be an option for you. Perhaps take the money you wanted to use on the SD card, and use that for a cheap GCS or Azure subscription to host a small SQL server. Instead of trying to increase performance, perhaps you can offload most of the need for it in the first place. | |
| Jul 10 at 7:06 | comment | added | marcelm | Before you upgrade the SSD (or anything else), research if this PC is worth spending more money on. Consider the memory cap, and the CPU (which is also hard/impossible to upgrade); it may simply not be worth it. | |
| Jul 10 at 0:26 | comment | added | user705502 | Best thin would be to move stuff as much as possible to an external hard drive, make sure SSD ha as much free space available as possible and make sure TRIM is enabled. | |
| Jul 9 at 20:00 | answer | added | MonkeyZeus | timeline score: 10 | |
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| Jul 9 at 17:02 | comment | added | JW0914 | If mainly using the mini-PC for programming, switching to Linux will offer a substantial performance increase, with the issues you're experiencing likely disappearing entirely or will be barely noticeable afterwards. Windows is heavily reliant on services, and it's these that really tax lower spec machines, and there's no way to get around this. Ubuntu Desktop has the most Windows-like UI that I've used, and most programming software is cross platform, but if needing to run something that is Windows-only, Wine can be used to do so. | |
| Jul 9 at 16:45 | comment | added | Andrew Morton | The name of the feature Ramhound doesn't want to remember is ReadyBoost. It's been removed since Windows 11 22H2. | |
| Jul 9 at 15:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 9 at 15:36 | vote | accept | JDias | ||
| Jul 9 at 15:30 | comment | added | 1NN | No, but things you CAN do is: a) install the fastest SSD your system is compatible with, and b) leave it with at least 25% free space, and c) consider saving any data on an external SSD (if you have USB SuperSpeed available). | |
| Jul 9 at 15:27 | comment | added | Ramhound | Windows used to have the ability to augment systems with not enough memory, with flash storage devices, but most modern systems out of the gate exceed the maximum amount of memory allowed by that feature. The devices you describe are extremely slow, they could only be utilized on systems older than 10 years, since the minimum system requires for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 exceed maximum system memory for the feature I describe. I don't even recall the name of the feature, and I won't be doing research, to remember it since it WILL NOT help you. | |
| Jul 9 at 14:39 | history | edited | music2myear | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9 at 14:28 | answer | added | Fanatique | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jul 9 at 13:30 | comment | added | LPChip | 8GB ram is too little for Windows 11 + Visual Studio and SQL server. You could consider downgrading to Windows 10 for better performance, but its probably better to move the Visual Studio and SQL server off of this pc. Its not suitable for it. You can use the MiniPC to remote into another pc where you have Visual Studio and SQL server running. Btw, just moving SQL Server away may already be enough. | |
| Jul 9 at 12:35 | comment | added | Tom Yan | It could only make it even slower, because SD cards are slow. | |
| Jul 9 at 11:35 | history | asked | JDias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |