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It’s a tale as old as time (or at least as old as 2012). You receive your sleek new Raspberry Pi in its little paper packaging. You pull it out, flash your SD card, and plug that sucker in. Before you know it though, you’re rushing to the internet to answer one very pressing question: why is my Raspberry Pi so slow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we’re going to cover what 6 of the issues might be and how you can solve them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 1: The SD Card<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are a couple of problems that you could be running into with your SD card.<\/p>\n\n\n

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First of all, your SD card might not have the right storage size. If you look in the picture above, you’ll notice that my SD card has 16GB and is an SDHC (that is, high capacity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternatively, your SD card might not have the right speed class. My SD card is marked A1, which means that it has 1.5 thousand minimum Input\/Output operations per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Double check to make sure that your SD card also has a solid storage size and a good speed class <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure that your SD card is from a reputable company (SanDisk, for instance), <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, if you’re using an old SD card, the data might be corrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Raspberry Pi relies on the SD card as its hard drive. While this is a brilliant use of an SD card, it is also unfortunately not really what SD cards are made for. Thus, over time, their bound to data corruption with repeated use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you fear that your SD card is worn, try replacing it to see if another SD card will do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to run diagnostics on the SD card, you can also run the following code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once that’s installed, you can go to the top menu, find accessories, and run Raspberry Pi Diagnostics<\/em>. It’s a very straightforward app that will tell you everything you need to know about your SD card and how it’s running.<\/p>\n\n\n
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If you’re looking for more information on SD cards, you can check out our articles on the following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n