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.
I'm thinking that for music, you don't have to be worried about "speed".
Even slower cards will do.
I still have what I think are old USB1.1 flashdrives for music in the car. They work.
But... I would keep that card "backed up".
Since you currently use a Samsung SSD, what I'd do is:
Download SuperDuper (free to use for cloning an entire volume)
Clone the contents of the t7 to the card.
Now you have an exact copy.
T7 now becomes the backup.
Even slower cards will do.
I still have what I think are old USB1.1 flashdrives for music in the car. They work.
But... I would keep that card "backed up".
Since you currently use a Samsung SSD, what I'd do is:
Download SuperDuper (free to use for cloning an entire volume)
Clone the contents of the t7 to the card.
Now you have an exact copy.
T7 now becomes the backup.
+1. I have a flush adapter + microSD, keeping my iTunes library, videos, and backups of iPhone/iPad on it. Write speed 71 MB/s, read 89 MB/s, 1 TB size.
No, that is not needed. Not for music which is a small fraction of the bandwidth of video. A generic SD card will work. Although a good quality card would be advisable.