Thread: [Under consideration] Remove 256MB limitation of the rootfs partition in the N900
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-02-09 , 09:40
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#18
Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
Is eMMC really that much slower than flash? I am booting of SD card on my n810 and I see zero speed difference. The file-system is no longer compressed, so it is less taxing on the system and takes care of the speed.
I don't think the N810 uses OneNAND flash, so the MMC will be about the same speed as the internal flash. With the N900 there's significant speed differences (see http://wiki.maemo.org/Opt_Problem for some performance details, as well as details on previous discussions about this issue).
 

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