Best recommendations for SD Card and USB Stick for Raspberry PI.

Whiffle · 18 Dec 2012 at 17:48

Hi there,

I am just about to buy the version B of the Raspberry Pi and need to an SD card and USB stick.

Do you guys have any rcommendations for what is best?

Raspbmc has to boot off an SD card but then runs off the USB Stick once going.

Any help would be much appreciated.

pandem0nium · 18 Dec 2012 at 18:02

YOUR BASKET
1 x Kingston 8GB SDHC Class 10 Flash Card (SD10G2/8GB) £8.99
Total : £11.27 (includes shipping : £1.90).

I got one of these for that purpose. class 10 and good read/write speeds.

Whiffle · 19 Dec 2012 at 08:24

Thanks for that - looks like a great buy to me.

What about a USB3.0 stick?

I know that the Pi is only USB2.0 but there are posts suggesting that using a USB3.0 stick with a USB2.0 sockets gives much better read times (but not writes).

I am therefore looking for a decent spec USB3.0 stick - I will be running Raspbmc off it so I assume that 16GB or 32GB will do.

Thanks

spicypixel · 19 Dec 2012 at 08:40

The 4k random read/writes are 10x more important than sequential read and writes for running an OS off it.

Whiffle · 19 Dec 2012 at 13:46

Hmm - I see that this is getting a little more complex than I anticipated.

Is anyone able to recommend a 16GB USB3.0 stick with decent 4k random read/writes please?

Squid · 20 Dec 2012 at 15:15

Raspbmc has to boot off an SD card but then runs off the USB Stick once going.

umm no ? Why not just use a 8/16 GB class ten. i dont have a usb stick raspbmc runs fine.

If you want a usb stick to play media files off, any good usb2 stick. its limited by usb ports on the pi.

passey89 · 20 Dec 2012 at 17:05

I use these for my raspberry pi.

but mostly streams films from my htpc whough my spare powerline adapter

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Flash Voyager 16GB USB3.0 Flash Drive (CMFVY3S-16GB) £17.99
1 x Kingston 16GB SDHC Class 10 Value Flash Card (SD10V/16GB) £9.98
Total : £31.88 (includes shipping : £3.26).