Is there any need to optimise an install on SD or USB?

[Jared Norris]

Good evening all,

I'm going to be installing 12.04 on either an SD card or USB drive for
use with a laptop, it has an inbuilt card reader so the SD card sounds
pretty easy to carry around right about now. I have done a bunch of
research on seeing if I need to optimise the install in any way, for
example moving read/write intensive or swap partitions to the ram.
Unfortunately a lot of the data I'm finding is all in the 2007- 2009
range and the only recent data I can find is arguments over if it's
still required or not.

So has anyone had any experience or seen information that would help
deciding if and if so what optimisations are still needed to be
carried out?

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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris