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REPLY:  9e9c7840

PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:17:17 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
> > On 03/06/18 12:43, D.M. Procida wrote:
> >> For a Pi running Volumio (a music player), what would be better for
> >> storage, a large USB flash drive (or multiple drives) or a hard disk
> >> drive?
> >>
> >> How do they compare in speed, for example?
> >
> > speed is not an issue frankly
> >
> > HDD still more storage for yer dollar And a little more power
> > consumption
> >
> Amplifying: even with 4 channel surround-sound and uncompressed WAV, the
> audio data rate is 2.8 Mb/s (assuming CD-quality - 44.1 KHz sample rate,
> 16 bits per sample for each channel). In computing terms that is only
> 0.35 MB/s - miniscule compared with the speed of SD cards (12.5 MB/s
> min), USB2.0 (35 MB/S for USB2) or SATA SSD or hard drives (150 MB/s min).

Granted, an SD card looks like it should be able to outperform any
demands made of it by a music player, but in practice, having the music
files stored on the SD card (that the Pi booted from) didn't work well
at all.

I don't know why, but it struggled to keep it playing smoothly.

Daniele

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