SD cards

Jason Davies

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Dec 18, 2022, 2:50:41 PM12/18/22

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Hi Smuggers,

I've only used SD cards occasionally but am now using a Macbook Pro 14" a lot and could use extra loft space (ie leave it in permanently). Last time I used a 'high speed' one it was painfully slow and I see now they are still talking about how fast they are now (but this is always in comparison with what the last ones were like, isn't it).

Are newer ones (like this Sandisk one) any good for eg watching a film from? I know there are numbers attached to these things but I've only ever found them the vaguest help in practice. 'Watching a film' would be fast enough, it doesn't need to be insanely quick for copying/writing (would use as temp and to store large files rarely used etc)

Cheers,

Jason

Paul R Owen

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Dec 19, 2022, 11:20:48 AM12/19/22

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Hi Jason,

I use a 1TB one of these: https://uk.crucial.com/products/ssd/portable-ssds

Reformatted for Apple, Together with SuperDuper, I use it to back up my HD after every day. Can get a little warm when backing-up, but barely warm when not.

Not a good idea to use (any backup disk) it as your only backup destination. The only guarantee with any HDD/SSD is that one day they will fail.

Paul Owen

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Jason Davies

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Dec 19, 2022, 3:26:20 PM12/19/22

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ah, thanks but this is SD not SSD;) The little stamp-size ones...

(but blimey, crucial are doing 4tb ones now...My first Crucial drive, inside a laptop, was about 600 quid for 64 gigs lol...must have been about 2008, I think...I still have it somewhere)

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Cheers,

Jason

Jason Davies

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Dec 20, 2022, 11:10:27 AM12/20/22

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answering my own question in case it helps someone else, turn out that Flexx sell Jetdrive Lite SD cards that sit almost flush with Macbooks so you can just leave them in (while noting approvingly the comment about back ups etc). They're not the fastest though...

https://www.flexxmemory.co.uk/storage/transcend-jetdrive-lite-330-removable-storage-expansion-card-for-macbook-pro-retina-early-2013-early-2015-and-m1-max-2021/

Cheers,
J

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