How to get more storage onto Surface Pro for Lightroom

[daelo]

So,

Lightroom has been slowing down recently, I use a variety of smart collections with one catalogue, have around 5500 photos and after about 10 minutes of work it slows down considerably, so i close and re-open lightroom to cure this issue.

I work with a surface pro 3 , i7 8gb ram and 256gb SSD but only have 30gb free space which i think is hampering things, also use latest version of lightroom via the cloud.

The surface pro comes with a micro SD slot for expandable storage , so I wondering what type of micro sd card would be suitable for my storage needs?

Ideally , something fast with good read and write speeds with enough storage to handle up to 10,000 images lets say, currently I think my "pictures" library folder in win10 stands at 90gb, so i guess i'm going to need double that, or at least 120gb if I trim my collection down (a lot of my images are not worth keeping due to being practices being a newb).

Has anyone else had a similar experiences with mirco sd for storage? I could have course consider a usb3 hard drive, but then i'd have to carry that around and plug in everytime, not ideal.

 

[Steeps]

If speed is important you might be better off going the external hdd route, or even an external SSD over USB3.

With "fast" micro SD cards you'd be looking at 8 seconds to write a 20mb file and 3 seconds to read it per file. For just a little bit more (I paid £60 for mine) you could buy a 7mm 256gb SSD and an external slim caddy which would be much faster (around 5x on read speed alone, 10x on write speed). We use microSD cards in our Surfaces as the main documents folder as we had staff trying to sync phone music/picture collections and it is noticeably slower than the main internal storage on most files.