Grench
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So I had this idea, but I'm the wrong one to create it.
Back in the early days of the Pandora, there was a lot of back and forth on which SD cards worked 'best' in the Pandora. There was a lot of back and forth and different benchmarking systems used with numbers put into forum posts - and eventually a self-reported table on the wiki.
Frankly, we should be able to do better.
So, I had this thought... for the Pandora now and the Pyra in the future, does someone feel like building a proper one?
Things it should have:
So, is there anyone interested in building this kind of utility?
I posted this to the OS forum because it's something I see as being appropriate to build into the OS build on the Pyra. If a mod thinks it belongs elsewhere, please move as you see fit.
				
			Back in the early days of the Pandora, there was a lot of back and forth on which SD cards worked 'best' in the Pandora. There was a lot of back and forth and different benchmarking systems used with numbers put into forum posts - and eventually a self-reported table on the wiki.
Frankly, we should be able to do better.
So, I had this thought... for the Pandora now and the Pyra in the future, does someone feel like building a proper one?
Things it should have:
- Benchmarking cards using a variety sequential and random reads and writes with 4K and 512K file sizes.
 - Graphical output for the user - some form of charting. Kind of like the hard disk benchmarking utility in Ubuntu maybe?
 - Collect information from the card for partition type, card manufacturer, etc - not serial number though (keep it top line), which slot it was measured from, CPU clock speed, CPU usage, etc..
 - Give the user the option to upload the results. Prompt them for a forum user name, card manufacturer, card model.
 - Have a database (run on ED's server maybe?) that can receive and compile the data.
 - Download the current 'top 5 results' from the database to populate on the user's graph so they can see right off where the card stands.
 - Be able to view online what the ratings are from all of the cards reported.
 - For cards with multiple entries, be able to filter by partition format - some cards work better on an EXT2 or EXT4 or FAT32 or exFAT.
 
So, is there anyone interested in building this kind of utility?
I posted this to the OS forum because it's something I see as being appropriate to build into the OS build on the Pyra. If a mod thinks it belongs elsewhere, please move as you see fit.
	