SD Card as Primary Drive

[dingdongbubble]

Hi

Since the new Macbook Pros have an SD card slot, I was wondering if using a large capacity SD card as a primary drive is feasible or not. I did read an article on Macworld that this is indeed possible. But I want to know its practicality. Lets assume I wont be needing the SD card for anything else. Will the SD card really be faster, stabler, more reliable than a hard drive?

Secondly how useful would a high performance card like the Sandisk Extreme III be over an average performance card? Will the difference be noticeable?

Are there any problems with such a setup (assuming 16/32 GB is enough for me)?

 

[Tallest Skil]

It runs at USB speeds, so it is abysmally slow.

 

[miles01110]

faster, no. More stable- I'm not really sure what you mean. More reliable- I guess, but not to the point where I'd want to use one over the internal drive.

 

[techfreak85]

they only reason i would install on an SD card would be for novelty's sake.
I suppose if you are only using it for like internet and thats it. it might be ok, altho slow

 

[Frosties]

Hi

Since the new Macbook Pros have an SD card slot, I was wondering if using a large capacity SD card as a primary drive is feasible or not. I did read an article on Macworld that this is indeed possible. But I want to know its practicality. Lets assume I wont be needing the SD card for anything else. Will the SD card really be faster, stabler, more reliable than a hard drive?

Secondly how useful would a high performance card like the Sandisk Extreme III be over an average performance card? Will the difference be noticeable?

Are there any problems with such a setup (assuming 16/32 GB is enough for me)?

The SD card slot on the usb2 bus is much slower than your harddrive. Forget using it as systems drive. It's a emergency boot disk solution more than anything else.

 

[dingdongbubble]

ahh right ok then . I can make one for emergencies or something. Thanks for the replies.