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On 4/28/2019 at 10:21 PM, PinkElephant said:

My impression is that you insist on being on the right track with treating an SD-card as a replacement for a HD - or even a SSD.

Because I will not convince you of anything else, do what I did right now:

- Go to the Microsoft specs for the Surface Pro 6, stating it has a MicroSDXC-slot

- Then go to Wikipedia, searching for MicroSDXC, and read the specs

Hint: Even the highest class of today’s SD-cards run the same max speed as my 5 years old 2.5“-HDD WD-my-passport on USB 3.0. And then there is an issue how these high-speed cards have to be initialized before they take up speed. No way to get close to a decent internal HDD, not even thinking about a SSD.

But as I say: Because you insist, get the information yourself. And next time buy more disk space ...

My old reply was removed.

Short version: I did not wanted to offend you or degrade your response. I´m sorry if it seemed like that. :-(

I have fixed my performance issues by setting the SD-Card "guideline" from faster removing" to "better performance" - I do not know the correct english translations for those points.
Maybe this helps others too.

4 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

This is no surprise. The issue is not the storage, it is the interface.

Many SD-card-readers are USB 2.0 - which is nothing compared to an SSD, even when running with an eSATA interface. A SSD with PCLe will run circles around those. The other issue with SD-cards is that they often get hot, and then speed down.

In cameras that need it, the manufacturers spend into the read-/write-interfaces build into these, But this will not speed up the same card when placed into a PC-slot. The SD-slots in PCs are not meant to serve as harddisk / SSD-replacements.

Thanks for your reply.

But I do not see it like youre pointing it down here. Speaking for my hardware (Surface Pro 6) the SD-Slot is indeed there for an additional storage like an extra harddisk. And writing some text in Evernote is nothing compared to saving 30MB big raw files on a camera while taking photos. So there can´t be an issue caused by heat or throttling down the card to avoid too much heat.

The issue must be somewhere else.

1 hour ago, CalS said:

How was performance before you moved the DB?

I had no issues with the performance. When I move all back to the SSD its running perfectly again. After moving back to SD-Card its getting stuck again.

I´m having the same issues as soon as I move the database and evernote files to the SD-Card (U3 with really good writing and reading speeds) in my Surface Pro 6. Evernote is not usable then. But I have no idea why there is so much write- and readactivity while just typing some text into a note.

From my point of view there is a big performance-issues within evernote regarding IO on harddisks that should be fixed.