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SDXC card in rMBP for added space?

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munstre

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SD cards are fairly slow and don't have wear leveling, lots of writes may drastically shorten their lifespan.
 
oh, really?? I thought SDXC cards did in fact have wear leveling (provided it's not a sketchy knock off brand or soemthing) ?
 
munstre said:
Was wondering if anyone has used a high speed SDXC (like a sandisk extreme: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Class-Memory-SDSDX-064G-X46/dp/B0070WU51U ) in their rMBP just for a little added storage? Any foreseeable problems with doing so? I know it's a little bit tacky, but it's still an expensive bump for the next size upgrade on the SSD's.
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I have the 32GB version of that same card that I use for my camera. I never thought of using it because it sticks out like a sore thumb from the chassis and I would be concerned about the wear and tear of removing/inserting the card constantly while traveling.

There is of course a product out there that addresses this, the Nifty drive, but it requires a micro SD card.

The speed rating is very accurate btw (just checked with Black Magic), you can expect 45 MB/sec read times, which is a little less than half the speed of an external USB 3.0 drive (at least from my Black Magic tests).
 
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I bought a 128 gig Sandisk unit about 6 months ago for this purpose. It's fantastic. I load my itunes movies onto it. Throughput is more than enough to run movies, and saves me internal disk space.
 
swerve147 said:
I have the 32GB version of that same card that I use for my camera. I never thought of using it because it sticks out like a sore thumb from the chassis and I would be concerned about the wear and tear of removing/inserting the card constantly while traveling.

There is of course a product out there that addresses this, the Nifty drive, but it requires a micro SD card.

The speed rating is very accurate btw (just checked with Black Magic), you can expect 45 MB/sec read times, which is a little less than half the speed of an external USB 3.0 drive (at least from my Black Magic tests).
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I was an original backer on that and I still havent recieved a final version of it.
 
I hadn't realized the SD cards hang out of the machine a bit (as my rMBP has not yet arrived)... so there goes that..
 
Painfully slow as soon as you get used to the speed of SSD's.

Sometimes it even crashes when I try to extract or load a movie.
 
Wish I could put my iTunes library on an SD card...

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I currently am using a SanDisk microSDXC Ultra Class 10 Card, which I'm planning on using in a Nifty MiniDrive (www.theniftyminidrive.com) but they are currently out of stock and so I am waiting...

The card itself I haven't had any problems with - iTunes can play 1080p videos from it just fine which is all I really need it for!
 
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