Here are some speed results of speed of two sd cards on two different Raspberry Pis (old 256MB and new 512MB one). I followed methodology listed on http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards: Write speed sync; time dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.tmp bs=500K count=1024; time sync Read speed dd if=~/test.tmp of=/dev/null bs=500K count=1024 And here are the results: SanDisk Extreme class 10 UHS-1… Continue reading Speed tests of SD cards on Raspberry Pi
Month: May 2013
Playing DVD on Raspberry Pi
I’m using Raspberry Pi as a media center using raspmbc, which is amazing for streaming (bbc iplayer, 4od) and playing files from NAS and USB. For DVDs I still needed to connect my laptop to TV, which is just an unnecessary effort. Being geek I knew I have to enable RPi to play my DVDs.… Continue reading Playing DVD on Raspberry Pi