• wagoner
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    7 months ago

    My laptop has an SD card slot. So if this were reliable I could add a significant permanent storage capacity to my laptop.

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      7 months ago

      Valid point, but I think most built in SD card slots are on a laptop can read 100MB/s. Hopefully yours is perhaps USB 3.0 speeds.

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        7 months ago

        It’s good for offloading things that otherwise eat useful fast storage.

        For example, OneNote uses a cache and a backup folder. So whatever size your notebook is, it will consume 3x that storage space.

        I use the SD slot for the cache and backup folders (my backup folder is synced to a file server, so I don’t need it locally, and in 15 years of using OneNote, I’ve needed that backup one time).

        It’s also useful for temporary stuff that you don’t care about/is available elsewhere. I’ll pull large installers from my file server and put them on the SD, until l I get around to using them (laptop drive is 250, which is tight for me, and the SD was a quick, dirty solution since I have a bunch of micro SD’s from phones over the years).