Hi everyone
I'm currently using a "good" micro SD card (SanDisk Ultra) in a Mini M8S II.
Would I see a performance gain, especially loading fanarts, using a faster micro SD card (SanDisk Extreme Pro or Lexar 1800x/1000x) or a fast USB3 stick ?
Or would it be better to install to NAND ?
Thanks for any advice 
NAND should be faster than most USB/SD devices, but as always, "your mileage may vary".
This is what i would also like to know. Is there any way to measure nand and sd card speeds in LE ?
sent from my G2
This might not be the best way but you can execute some commands to test read speeds.
First stop Kodi:
systemctl stop kodi
For internal system partition:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && dd bs=1M count=200 if=/dev/system of=/dev/null
For SD card you need to identify SD card partition, e.g. using blkid:
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/cache: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/system: LABEL="system" UUID="da594c53-9beb-f85c-85c5-cedf76546f7a" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/data: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mmcblk1p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="LIBREELEC" UUID="0E55-5E22" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="9c56c43b-01"
/dev/mmcblk1p2: LABEL="LIBREELEC_DISK" UUID="4407bf73-4567-42de-ae29-c962cf013f98" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="9c56c43b-02"
/dev/mmcblk1: PTUUID="9c56c43b" PTTYPE="dos"Above you can see that LIBREELEC_DISK (or DISK if you run 7.0) is /dev/mmcblk1p2. In that case run:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && dd bs=1M count=200 if=/dev/mmcblk1p2 of=/dev/null
If your card is very slow, it may take a long time to execute.
Thanks kszaq.
56 Mb/s testing internal storage, vs. 17 Mb/s with a SanDisk Ultra micro SD...I guess I'll try 'installtointernal' this week-end 
I didn't understand the half of it so i went and installed latest 009 to internal on Minix U1....WOW, really faster now. Boot's up 3 times faster and in menu work is smooth fluid. Even my wife noticed [emoji1]
sent from my G2
I installed to NAND too, couldn't wait for the weed-end 
I didn't want to start from scratch, so I copied (with Kodi stopped) the .kodi directory (and a few files from .config).
I'm confused on how the tmp folder is mounted.
LibreELEC:/tmp # losetup
NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE
/dev/loop0 0 0 0 1 /flash/SYSTEM
LibreELEC:/tmp # mount
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /flash type vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/loop0 on / type squashfs (ro,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)I don't know how read this results...
So the /tmp folder is mounted over the sd SYSTEM partition?
It's possible to use the NAND for mount the /tmp? there are the tmp files stored on Android?
I'm confused on how the tmp folder is mounted.CodeLibreELEC:/tmp # losetup NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE /dev/loop0 0 0 0 1 /flash/SYSTEM LibreELEC:/tmp # mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 on /flash type vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro) /dev/loop0 on / type squashfs (ro,relatime) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)I don't know how read this results...
So the /tmp folder is mounted over the sd SYSTEM partition?
It's possible to use the NAND for mount the /tmp? there are the tmp files stored on Android?
/tmp is mounted via tmpfs, so it is in memory. It is probably faster than nand however it is volitile.
/tmp is mounted via tmpfs, so it is in memory. It is probably faster than nand however it is volitile.
Ahh, ok I got it
/tmp is mounted at using/usr/lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount
But how the tmpfs unit is created?, I see that has 411.5M but I can't find where that space is assigned.
Ok the size is 50% of my total memory by default, but do not consume any memory if not is needed.
No, /tmp is mounted at /tmp using tmpfs. This is loaded in memory or swap and is allocated dynamically.
Read, tmpfs - ArchWiki
It is setup using a systemd service /usr/lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount
I installed to NAND too, couldn't wait for the weed-endI didn't want to start from scratch, so I copied (with Kodi stopped) the .kodi directory (and a few files from .config).
So if I understand correctly, installtointernal makes an installation of a bare system without kodi library and settings?
What files/folders need to be copied to make a full copy of the current SD install?
I think it would be useful to make something like installtointernalFULL to just drop everything to NAND.
So if I understand correctly, installtointernal makes an installation of a bare system without kodi library and settings?
What files/folders need to be copied to make a full copy of the current SD install?
I think it would be useful to make something like installtointernalFULL to just drop everything to NAND.
In the LibreELEC settings create a system backup which will backup everything. Use the installtointernal command then go back into libreelec settings and restore from back.
Everything will be excatly the same.
Wouldn't it be nice, to install LibreELEC to nand and android to sd 
SD - 19.5 MB/s
Internal - 109 MB/s!!!!
I think I need to move to internal
I will add an option to copy your setting to internal to the script.
I will add an option to copy your setting to internal to the script.
Is this option available now?
Also, one bit of confusion. After nand install, is it still possible to boot from SD for testing future versions in the same manner? Does installtointernal still work the same way in this case?