I was running out of space on my MacBook Pro, I did used to have my music library on an external so I thought I would do this again. It is now on a Samsung T7, things actually seem faster now, but maybe this is just because the library is consolidated before I moved it all (the notification on track changes was always very delayed if at all showing). To make things cleaner I was thinking of having a SD Card permanently in for the music library. The library mostly lossless ripped from CD's. Will the speeds on the SD cards have a negative effect? Any recommendations? Thanks!
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SD Card for Music Library. Speed ok?
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You would want to use a high speed SD card in that use case. For my old (M2) MacBook, I used a flushmount microSD adapter with a 1TB Micro SD card and had no issues with music playback. Moving/copying songs to that card is what will take longer, but audio playback uses significantly less I/O bandwidth for most file types.