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2 GB is enough for xbmc, just make sure that you allocate at least 512MB to video RAM
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Read and write speed on an SD card vs an SSD is eons slower. I'm sure XBMC would work on an SSD, it works just fine on a USB thumbdrive, but boot times, shutdown, and library compaction and cleaning would probably be faster on the SSD. I have a 64GB Crucial SSD and the one thing I noticed, other than boot times, was that updating via apt-get is wicked fast. The difference between the SSD and a spinning HDD is phenomenal.
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2012-06-10, 04:45
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-10, 04:49 by gabbott.)
If you want to install on an sd card, have a look at openelec. Both my xbmc boxes (which are ION based) run off 8GB SD cards using openelec. Boot time is under 20 seconds. I do have my thumbnails on a server. I ended up taking a 32GB SSD out of one of the boxes because in my setup, there was no speed difference between the SSD and SD card. But running anything other than something like openelec i'd go with an SSD drive.
I did try at one point putting xbmclive (dharma version i think it was) onto an SD card. It ran ok, but library updates and boot time was noticeably slower.
If you get an SSD, just grab a 30-40GB, these days they don't make much smaller.