Hey guys, I got my Rasp Pi B+ today and I 'm wanting to know from those who have experience if...

[G+_Darryl Gibbs]

Hey guys,

 

I got my Rasp Pi B+ today and I'm wanting to know from those who have experience if there is REALLY a noticable speed difference between using a Class 10 Micro SD vs a Class 4?  I know that there should be, but is it really going to make a huge difference?

 

I'll be using the Pi as a webserver running Nginx and PHP.  The cards I have are a Kingston 8GB Class 10 & a Sony 32GB Class 4.  I'd rather use the Sony for the capacity, but I don't want to lose in speed.

 

Thanks guys!

[G+_Jonathan Schober]

I know this doesn't directly answer the question, but I would recommend using an external device for the web storage. If not only to prevent data corruption. It is a know issue, and its not worth the risk. I would get an 8GB class 10 card for the OS, then an external USB device.

 

 If you wanted to go crazy, you could cache the USB drive to the SD card

[G+_Jonathan Schober]

Or actually, you could have all of you small PHP files on the sd card, and your larger files (ie images)  on the USB drive

[G+_Taylor Graham]

If you wanted to pair the bandwidth of the nic to the storage, you'd get a class 10 card. Most usb drives will be faster than that though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Speed_class_rating

[G+_Darryl Gibbs]

Thanks guys!  Jonathan Schober How would I go about the caching the USB to the SD card?  I'm a real noob at the webserver stuff.

[G+_Jonathan Schober]

No idea :) It was just a thought. 

[G+_Darryl Gibbs]

Thanks for nothing.. Ha ha ha. I'll ask Google, thanks for the idea!

[G+_Taylor Graham]

The pi runs linux, so just store files on the usb drive as if it were any other linux system connected to any drive. Should work the same way.