Define "fast enough" - fast enough for what? Exactly how can it NOT be used to load RT's from a SD card?

MY BIAB with RT's work so: less than year old Win 10 laptop (which has to pull double work and hobby/music duty) only has a 1TB SDD. That poor thing is already at 80'ish % used. so I have RT's stored along with a few other space eaters on a 200GB SanDisk Ultra (I'll get a larger SD card later)

https://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-Ultra-200GB-Micro-Adapter/dp/B073JY5T7T/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

But the SD card port is ONLY USB 2 interface speeds. The laptop has USB 3.1, two USB 3's and a USB 2 as well as the SD card reader but the SD card interface is on USB 2 bus.

I will grant you a heavy RT usage song takes a little longer to get going than from a standard 2.5" laptop SATA 3 5400 RPM HDD (normally for a COTS laptop if you wanted 7200 RPM HDD you'd pay a hefty premium or mod with an R&R after market yourself). BUt since we are here a 5400 RPM HDD takes longer than the same SATA 3 interface using a SATA ACHI SDD or M.2 which takes longer than a PCIe NVMe SDD drive. But I don't think many HERE are running NVMe SDD's or Optane's as their laptop drives (yet).

Larry




Last edited by Larry Kehl; 01/07/18 11:25 AM.
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