On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:10:40 -0400, Rich Pieri 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.
I've also found SD cards to be unreliable (sometimes but not always DOA) compared to SSD. I bought a new micro SD for my phone; I tested it prior to entering it into service, and it locked up hard after about 4 GB of testing, after which it went permanently catatonic. The card it replaced developed silent write errors after about 2 years. And I had had another such that was *ahem* mismarked. -- Robert Krawitz <r...@alum.mit.edu> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss