[Dylan16807]

> In practice, it's actually fine for most purposes.

It is, yes, but I wouldn't refer to it as comparable to an SSD.

> SD cards have much worse write IOPS.

Surprisingly not! Testing in ATTO I got read and write speeds that were almost identical, and a peak of 2000 IOps.

[phonon]

>It is, yes, but I wouldn't refer to it as comparable to an SSD.

EBS (gp2) is flash based, has far better performance than high end magnetic disks, with excellent latency and consistent performance. So, it's more comparable to SSD than anything else.

>Surprisingly not! Testing in ATTO I got read and write speeds that were almost identical, and a peak of 2000 IOps.

Really? Were you looking at 4K write? Typically that would be under 1 MB/s for an SD card.

[Dylan16807]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013CP3MMM

http://i.imgur.com/PRoxVPM.png

It's a relatively high-quality SD card, unfortunately hampered by my reader's inability to use bus speed over 25MB/s.

[phonon]

Nice card! So about 1500 write IOPS at 4K. Performance might be worse (or better) at other queue depths though.