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Originally Posted by ProDigit
Sd cards aren't as fast as flash chips either.
Their average 4k IOs are very low.
If this device had the memory of a flash drive, it would boot at least 2x to 3x faster.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a flash drive*, but it would be very easy to test whether having internal storage on a micro-SD card rather than non-removable flash memory chips (which is what the thread was about to begin with) has a significant effect on boot speed: The Kobo Aura has the latter while other devices of the same vintage (Glo, AuraHD) have the former, so if someone has one of each (with the same setup) then they could time how long they take to boot.
Do you think the Aura would be 2x-3x faster than the Glo or AuraHD?
* If you mean a SSD drive then you might well be right, not sure how you could test it though. Some of us have tried replacing the micro-SD cards in our Kobos with faster ones, I think the general result is that it has some minor effect on things like boot speed, time to open large books for the first time, and a larger effect on the time to transfer large files (or many files) from computer to device via USB, etc. but not on anything important to what most people use their ereaders for, reading ebooks.