David Wilkinson wrote:
I have an Acer Iconia W500 tablet on which I have installed Windows 8
Release Preview 32-bit (and previously the Developer Preview and
Consumer Preview).
This machine has a 32GB SSD drive, and I have added a 32GB SD card in
the internal slot, formatted as NTFS (drive D). When I put my
SeaMonkey profile on this SD card, the performance is abysmal.
*Everything* takes a long time, especially just loading pages in the
browser. This happens both with my existing profile (copied from
another machine) and a new test profile. The original default profile
on the SSD C drive works fine.
Has anybody else seen this? Can SeaMonkey be transferring so much data
to/from the profile that disk speed is a major issue?
BTW, the card is PNY 32GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash
Card Model P-SDHC32G10-EFS2 R.
I'm certainly no expert but suspect that disk speed may be a major
issue. SeaMonkeys cache is in the profile along with cookies,
history, bookmarks and all the other sqlite databases so it's going to
be reading and writing it frequently. The advertized write speed for
that card is 20MB/s and that is probably for sequential writes of the
optimal size so you are probably not getting anything close to that.
At best it will be 5 times slower than you SDD and may be considerably
more than that. Also running a release preview the drivers may not be
fully optimized yet. I suggest downloading CrystalDiskMark (if it
will run on Windows 8) and run it on the SD card and the SDD drive and
compare the random read and write speeds. You could also try moving
the cache back to the SDD drive to see if that makes a
difference(Preferences-Advanced-Cache-Cache Folder Location)
Jim
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