> On Aug 23, 2016, at 11:10 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/23/2016 8:27 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> So my music collection is larger than the drive on my laptop. >> There's a USB 3 1TB drive connected but it feels cumbersome. >> >> Poking around online I noticed sd cards are large and inexpensive. >> This plus it's omnipresence seems compelling. Slide one into the >> side of my laptop and local storage triples. > > No, your storage doesn't triple. The capacity may be big, relative to > tiny notebook SSDs, but the performance is generally crap. UHS vendors > say "up to 104MB/s" but in practice you're capped at 20MB/s by the > reader unless you have a newer, premium Skylake notebook with a reader > that supports UHS, and UHS cards aren't cheap. And even then you're > going to hit a practical limit of around 80MB/s with a fast card. But if > you're just looking for some extra storage to carry around low > performance media like music and movies then SD cards are perfectly fine > for it. This is, in fact, precisely what the entire storage category was > originally designed to do. > > -- > Rich P.
Good point about performance. In this case just for music. Fascinating stuff. Was just reading about the "protected area". Didn't know about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital - Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss