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Hello Everyone,
I have a laptop that I have heavily modified already, and feel I could use more space, but I don't want to remove my optical drive for an extra HDD, at least not yet.
I have an SDXC card reader built in that I have not used in the last 9 months of having this laptop. I am considering to get an UHS-1 64GB SDXC to use as pretty much a small 2nd hard drive. I looked at 128GB ones but they are just way too expensive.
What I am wondering is will it be fast enough with 10+Mbps transfer speeds, and will it last well in my laptop which I put to sleep and wake up sometimes frequently.
I plan to use it probably as storage for my music and a few movies to take a little pressure off my 1TB HDD. I have all the files backed up on my desktop, so file loss is not a big concern, but if it is unreliable then it kind of defeats the purpose.
Thanks for the input.
I have a laptop that I have heavily modified already, and feel I could use more space, but I don't want to remove my optical drive for an extra HDD, at least not yet.
I have an SDXC card reader built in that I have not used in the last 9 months of having this laptop. I am considering to get an UHS-1 64GB SDXC to use as pretty much a small 2nd hard drive. I looked at 128GB ones but they are just way too expensive.
What I am wondering is will it be fast enough with 10+Mbps transfer speeds, and will it last well in my laptop which I put to sleep and wake up sometimes frequently.
I plan to use it probably as storage for my music and a few movies to take a little pressure off my 1TB HDD. I have all the files backed up on my desktop, so file loss is not a big concern, but if it is unreliable then it kind of defeats the purpose.
Thanks for the input.
Li Ken-un
June 20, 2014 6:58:05 AM
IInuyasha74 said:
iceblitzed said:
well then the sd card looks like a good choice. It is true that it is a set it and forget about it option for storage. also 10MB per second should be enough for movies and music Yea so it is fast enough for playing basic media. I figured I can load it up with an extra 60GB of movies and just let it sit. My only real concern was that it might prove highly volatile with constant cycles in and out of sleep mode so proceed with caution.
Turning on and off shouldn't be a major problem if your sd card is a newer model
Filling it that full will most likely cause performace and stability problems though
iceblitzed said:
well then the sd card looks like a good choice. It is true that it is a set it and forget about it option for storage. also 10MB per second should be enough for movies and music Yea so it is fast enough for playing basic media. I figured I can load it up with an extra 60GB of movies and just let it sit. My only real concern was that it might prove highly volatile with constant cycles in and out of sleep mode.
its best if you get a flash drive for this kind of purpose such as this http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Flash-Drive-SDCZ8...
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