I think you mean "SSD", instead of "SD card", which is something used for photography.
I'm not sure what speed the internal SATA bus is on the 2011. It might be able to use "most of the additional speed" an internal SSD will provide, but perhaps not all of it.
If the time has arrived when you REALLY "want a faster Mac" (than you get from a 9-year-old one), perhaps it's time to start shopping for a 2019, or perhaps a 2017 Apple-refurbished...
The OP is referring to the SDXC card slot. On the Mid 2011 iMacs, it was located on the side of the iMac, which was nice (they are inconveniently located on the back on Late 2012+ iMacs and the iMac Pro), but also located dangerously close to the internal optical disk drive:I think you mean "SSD", instead of "SD card", which is something used for photography.
I was also curious about this, but have not got around to do any testing yet. I wanted to get a fast SD card big enough to run as a bootable drive just for testing, maybe one day. I am not sure about how they would do as a primary boot drive though.has someone a highspeed SD Card in use in a 2011 27"? hows the performance(read/write), its worth to buy a 1TB card as additional drive? because some highspeed cards r up to 300MB read/write
According to Apple, the SDXC slots on the desktop Macs use the PCIe bus, so this could be pretty fast. Sadly, the Mac laptops use the USB bus @ USB 2 speeds.hows the performance(read/write)
The fast SD cards are going to be a lot more than a SATA SSD.its worth to buy a 1TB card as additional drive?
and SW RAIDs.This is most likely going to be the fastest external storage you can get for your Mid-2011, not counting TB RAID
A search reveals this - that you only get USB 2 speeds:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sd-slot-bus-speed-for-imac-mid-2011-pcie-or-usb.1212901/?post=13186429#post-13186429
A search reveals this - that you only get USB 2 speeds:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sd-slot-bus-speed-for-imac-mid-2011-pcie-or-usb.1212901/?post=13186429#post-13186429
It just states that newer Macs use PCIe.Article Q&A says: "What is the maximum speed that my computer can use when reading and writing to an SD card in the SD card slot?
Macs that use the USB bus to communicate with the SD card slot have a maximum speed of up to 480 Mbit/s. Newer Macs use the PCIe bus to communicate with the SD card slot and can transfer data at a much faster rate."
Apple Support said:How fast can my Mac read or write to an SD card in the SD card slot?
Mac notebooks use the USB bus to communicate with the SD card slot. They have a maximum speed of up to 480Mbit/s. Mac desktops use the PCIe bus to communicate with the SD card slot. Desktops can transfer data at a faster rate.
Check the packaging that came with your SD media to determine the maximum transfer rate that your specific card uses.
To determine the maximum transfer speed of your Mac, you can use System Information. Choose Apple () menu > About This Mac and then click System Report.
If you use a Mac notebook:
If you use a Mac desktop computer:
- Select Hardware, then select USB.
- Select Internal Memory Card Reader and look for the Speed entry.
- Select Hardware, then select Card Reader.
- Look for the Link Speed entry. Computers that use the PCIe bus express their speed as GT/s.
According the the Apple support page above, the Windows booted on your iMac can read and write using the SD slot, but you cannot install the Windows OS on it. Although, there might be an unofficial way to do it.SW raid is no option because i mostly use the better OS on the machine --> win10
better OS
According the the Apple support page above, the Windows booted on your iMac can read and write using the SD slot, but you cannot install the Windows OS on it. Although, there might be an unofficial way to do it.
I am not sure if that was what you were planning.
At least for the Mac OS, it can install on the SD drive.
Yikes!
yeah, same programms runs faster with win, better driver support(oh, wait, apple has no support for the 2011er machines anymore... sooo nice, not)
with a iphone u will have a great support, but with a mac, apple takes a sh*t on u.![]()
I use both daily.
While I still think that MacOS is still a more intuitive, faster, and more stable OS than Windows 10, I will concede that the quality gap between the two operating systems (MacOS and Windows) has narrowed quite a bit with the launch of Windows 10.
Actually, this could probably be said about almost all Apple products, HW and SW, services, etc. that was released in the past 6-7 years when compared with the competition.
The once very wide gap is now starting to close.