{"id":23,"date":"2012-07-24T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/?p=23"},"modified":"2015-09-15T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:55:43","slug":"sd-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/pi-hardware\/sd-cards","title":{"rendered":"SD Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe minimum size SD card you can use for Rasbian is 2GB, but it is recommended to get a 4GB SD card or above.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\nCard Speed<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\nA Class 4 card, which is the minimum recommended has an average read\/write speed of 4 MB\/sec. &nbsp;If you spend a little extra and buy a Class 10 card, you should find that the boot time is approximately 25% of the Class 4, as it should read at 10MB\/sec.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever real world experience has found that that class 4 cards designed for random access perform faster than &quot;faster&quot; class 10 cards which are designed for block reading and writing.&nbsp; See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/archives\/4536#comments\" target=\"_blank\">this post <\/a>by the foundation as to why they have selected a Samsung class 4 card for the NOOBS distribution.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\nFile IO Speed<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/programming-in-c\/file-input-and-output\/read-and-write-speed\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\nCompatible SD Card Resources<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberry-pi.co.uk\/2012\/06\/07\/compatible-sd-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.raspberry-pi.co.uk\/2012\/06\/07\/compatible-sd-cards\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minimum size SD card you can use for Rasbian is 2GB, but it is recommended to get a 4GB SD card or above. Card Speed A Class 4 card, which is the minimum recommended has an average read\/write speed of 4 MB\/sec. &nbsp;If you spend a little extra and buy a Class 10 card, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pi-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}