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| Thread ID: 122644 | 2012-01-04 10:36:00 | SD Card for music files | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 1252156 | 2012-01-04 10:36:00 | Hi All I am looking at getting a 120GB SSD drive for my main PC on which I want to store the O/S (Windows 7), Office 2010, 5-6 games and my music collection. By my calculations I am approximately 20GB short of space on the SSD (and not prepared to stump up $650+ for a 240GB SSD!!) What I was thinking of doing was housing a quarter of my music collection on an SD card which I would permanently keep in the card reader on the PC. I appreciate that SD cards are traditionally used in still/video cameras but I was presuming that I could purchase one, format to FAT32 or NTFS and copy MP3/WAV files onto it? Can anyone see any issues or potential pitfalls with this plan? Cheers |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 1252157 | 2012-01-04 12:36:00 | No it would work fine, or you could get a large USB flash drive to achieve the same thing. You don't want a normal hard drive for data storage which is what most of us with SSD's do ? If space is an issue maybe a laptop drive? even at current prices a small hard drive will be faster, larger, and cheaper per GB than an SD card. If you only have a single SSD it has to have the Swap file on it, mine is set to use another drive to save space and increase the life of the SSD (probably not really an issue) and my games are mostly installed on a Raid array except for the one or two I play a lot. Also windows tends to start complaining at you if drives get too full and can get unstable or slow in some cases. My windows installation with a few programs and World of Warcraft (28GB by itself) installed on a 120GB SSD is currently sitting at 49.3 Gb used. It amazed me how small it got when I removed all the unwanted rubbish and moved the swapfile. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1252158 | 2012-01-04 13:10:00 | @ Dugimodo. If the rig is the same as the OP's signature then I would think he already has other drives. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1252159 | 2012-01-04 19:05:00 | Yeah I saw that, but I don't understand why he would want an SD card if that was the case. Just leave the music on one of those drives if it is, and set the swap file there also. Problem solved. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1252160 | 2012-01-04 21:03:00 | No it's a newer, different rig housed in a smaller Shuttle case [i5 CPU, 1TB SATA HDD, 4GB RAM] so space is an issue. Was also considering a secondary laptop SATA drive alongside the SSD or a permanently attached USB drive. Thanks for the responses! Must remember to update my forum signature! |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 1252161 | 2012-01-04 21:09:00 | @ Dugimodo: Did you notice a significant performance increase within Windows and with your games when you switched to an SSD? I'm looking at an OCZ Vertex 3 but a bit worried about the reported BSOD problems reported by some users. |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 1252162 | 2012-01-04 21:49:00 | I've got one of those in my PC and one in my wifes. Brilliant drives!! :D You need SATA3 to take full advantage of the speeds, otherwise you'll be hampered by SATA2 as I am. No need to keep your music and things on it at all, bit of a waste considering you don't need high-speed access to an MP3 file. I agree, get a secondary 2.5" HDD for it. The theory behind using an SD card would work, but the practicality behind it, you're better off getting a 2.5" HDD ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1252163 | 2012-01-04 23:07:00 | @ Chilling Silence: What brand/model of SSD do you have installed in yours and your wife's PCs? |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 1252164 | 2012-01-05 00:00:00 | I've got the 90GB Agility3, she has the 60GB Vertex 3 (Coz PBTech didn't have the Agility3 in-stock at the time). Been running it for 3-4 months now, wouldn't go back :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1252165 | 2012-01-05 00:10:00 | Just a bit of a heads up on that shuttle, when I had a look at it here , it was because it kept on crashing, locking up. After doing extensive testing on all the parts over a day and a bit the only conclusion that I could come to is the power supply in it was to small to run much more than the standard parts as it came, considering it had a i5 CPU, WD high performance drive etc. When trying to run the graphic card it would crash due to lack of power, running the onboard it was fine. The graphic card that was in it, the min wattage required was already exceed just by the card on its own. It only had a small PSU and most of its power was already being used, so adding more devices on it could push it over the top.:2cents: |
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