The sequential write speed being slow is the failing of the physics used for solid state architecture in general it takes time for the data to be stored, one way modern SSD are able to get around this is by including cache (RAM chips) on modern SSDs. The cache allows the computer to make small to medium bursts of writes to the drive and trickle it onto the actual flash chips when the drive idles between writes and reads. When you do large data writes that exceed the cache it slows down to the max speed at which the flash itself can write. This is why you can write a word document very quickly, but not store multi-gig files very quickly. One of the problem with SD cards and other removable flash storage, is that they seldom have much if any cache. This is why the OS install took so long that they forgot about it. While an HDD is actually not that bad at large sequential writes compared to an SD card. But the problem comes with random or non-sequential. A HDD has to physically find the places on the magnetic disk, so if it a file is fragmented across the disk or it needs to read a bunch of different files scattered around the disk, it can take forever as it has to seek out each block/sector. When reading data off a flash is reality easy, all the bits are equally accessible at the same time. So it doesn't matter if it is sequential or random, and infact modern SSD's actually randomize spreading the data across multiple chips to spread the write cycles across the entire space and extend the longevity of the device. TLDR: SD cards write data slower but read data more quickly and do not have seek time from having to mechanically read the data.

It is usual practice when working inside a laptop to remove the battery! What would make this conversion really neat would be to engineer a way to expose the SD slot externally. Subscribed just now.

excellent tutorial

Hi - nice video, i will need to binge watch more of them Question - the 44 pin hard plastic male to female adapter you use is that available on line i need one and cant find it on amazon - i am restoring a Toshiba Tecra S1 ad the ide died finally - i have ordered a ribbon cable and 44 pins CF card but that plastic shell seems better BTW - on my older machines i find Pentium 4 etc with 512 ram i use XP OEM or SP1, with 1G i use SP2 and more than 1 GIG ram i update to the latest service pack - each pack uses much more memory - i tested this with both Dell 2400 Celeron and a IBM 8033 ?? Pentium 4 If you dont use the XP machine on general internet you might as well stay on initial release and not upgrade to the service packs - i have 3 XP machines and they are only really on the local network - they can "talk to the net" but very rarely unless i quickly need to grab a driver The CF and SD memory card read / write wear will be reduced considerable if you disable virtual memory swap file and also disable hard drive indexing, the extra ram memory will perform much better and make up for any disadvantages lost by the HDD swap file and indexing Regards George

nice video, i hav old ibm thinkpad x40,but driver not detect on bios,should i format microsd to fat32 or ntsf? ,sorry for bad english

SIR IN FUTURE WITH XP AGAIN :D

I wonder if this would work on a modchipped original Xbox?

I would not be surprised if that Gateway laptop maxed out at 2GB RAM, which is going to slow down any OS.

Would have had even better performance if you had converted the machine to Linux as well as greater security.

I would be deeply concerned about the lack of wear leveling. It may have been discussed later in the video, but the droning of the repetitious background music had me quitting early. Nice vid, but...