Installing Windows t Embedded 7 onto SD Card / Performance

Hello,
I am currently testing a Windows 7 Embedded installation using the IBW 64bit toolkit onto a 16GB high speed SD card in a Dell Poweredge R520 server.
The installation process goes through fine after enabling SD Boot and the enhanced write filter options.
My question is around performance and process, and if I am doing the right thing to speed up the process as eventually I will take a golden image of this and want to deploy via WDS. A slow down in performance is to be expected I guess, the SD card supports
100MB/s read and 65MB/s write speeds.
I've read about building the image on a external USB disk first then transferring to the SD card after, has anyone done this and can verify? Am I following the best process and using the best SD cards for this type of environment?
Thanks

This forum is for PSOReady. The WES 7 forum is over here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=quebeccomponentsforum
You could use ICE to create a custom IBW disk, cut down the features, and automate the build process. This custom IBW disk can be installed via USB. It is good to see SD card boots, but other media like SSD SATA drive would be faster in performance.
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