MicroSD To Store Music with Laptop on Will it work Good?

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Used to have a "music SSD" in PC where I stored all my downloaded music.

Got a laptop and wanted the music accessible so removed the SSD from PC and put it into a USB enclosure which I can carry from laptop to PC and vice versa.

USB enclosure got annoying because of cables and bulkiness and looks ugly on desk.

Was thinking of getting a 1tb flash drive and put music on there instead.

Recently saw that they do 1tb MiscoSD cars and seeing as the laptop has a slot maybe this is a better idea. Then when I want to carry it to the PC I can use a MicroSD>USB adapter for it, but it will mostly be inside the laptop.

Is this a good idea? Which MiscoSD is most reliable for this? What about speed compared to SSD? I've had a couple MicroSDs fail on me in the past, so will probs back it up on the current SSD anyway... in which case copy/paste speed is important.

Thanks
 
Maximum read speed will probably be 95MBps so vastly slower than SSD, even over USB.
I normally go for Sandisk Extreme Pro but not a cheap option at over £100 for 1TB.
 
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I wouldn't store anything you want to keep on a microSD card - it's known that they aren't nearly as reliable as a proper SSD as the manufacturers use the cheapest flash storage possible.

Tons of cases where people kept really important data on a MicroSD card on their phone and the SD card just dies after a few months.

Best bet would be just to use an external USB enclosure and a proper SSD or keep a copy of your music on both systems.
 
JollyJamma said:
I wouldn't store anything you want to keep on a microSD card - it's known that they aren't nearly as reliable as a proper SSD as the manufacturers use the cheapest flash storage possible.

Tons of cases where people kept really important data on a MicroSD card on their phone and the SD card just dies after a few months.

Best bet would be just to use an external USB enclosure and a proper SSD or keep a copy of your music on both systems.
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They're normally fine for low write counts - which presumably is what the OP will be doing just for storing music. Read speed wouldn't be an issue either.
 
Semple said:
They're normally fine for low write counts - which presumably is what the OP will be doing just for storing music. Read speed wouldn't be an issue either.
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Sure and that is a good point but I still wouldn't store anything of significance on a MicroSD card given the number of people who have lost data stored on them and I'm just pointing out that they fail far more often than proper NAND flash storage.

I'd be happy to use an SD card if I kept a copy of the data on a main backup drive and replicated the data once a week or so (depending on how often the data changes, naturally) - then it doesn't matter if the SD card dies or not.
 
agree with jollygammer the number of times I've had read/write issues with micosd cards isn't worth it. Not a stable storage format.

If the computers are used in house get a NAS. That's what I do.
 
Why not just have a copy on both machines?
Then synch the changes via a usb stick. I do this between phone and computer.

People use Micro SD on phones with no issues. It's just your gaining any portability with a Micro SD Vs a USB stick..
 
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