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Title: Got a Mac with a SD Card slot? Don’t rely on it as a storage upgrade Post by: HCK on September 27, 2020, 04:05:11 pm Got a Mac with a SD Card slot? Don’t rely on it as a storage upgrade
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Spinning disks are slow and solid-state drives (SSDs) used to cost a digital arm and a leg. That led many people to stick with hard drives or purchase Macs with low-capacity SSDs—like 250 GB or 500 GB—because the next increment up added many hundreds of dollars to the cost. (I’m sitting here with a 2017 iMac with a 1TB Fusion drive, so I am one of you.)</p><p>If you’ve got an hard drive in your Mac or a low-capacity SSD, you are surely tempted to update your system, adding speed or capacity. And some of you might be tempted to trim costs on that upgrade by using an SD Card (typically in the Micro SD format) inserted into the card slot present on generations of Macs preceding those that incorporated USB-C or Thunderbolt 3.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3574908/got-a-mac-with-a-sd-card-slot-dont-rely-on-it-as-a-storage-upgrade.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Got a Mac with a SD Card slot? Don’t rely on it as a storage upgrade (https://www.macworld.com/article/3574908/got-a-mac-with-a-sd-card-slot-dont-rely-on-it-as-a-storage-upgrade.html#tk.rss_all) |