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Hard Drive or Memory Card?
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| Dj Ricky H |
Well I am looking for more storage with my laptop. I can either buy another HD for the ultra bay, or should I go memory card route? (since the SD now goes to 4gig, and the price is dropping rather fast). My question is can I run music right off the memory card through a card reader, or is it too slow?.....and which would you t.a's prefer?....I am really undecided right now...an HD with more than 40gigs of space, or a memory cards that I can swap depending on what music I want to play.....hmmm...I dunno....
and BTW I have an IBM A31 Thinkpad.. |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
| You can buy portable hard drives that plug into the usb 2.0 plug or firewire these are as fast as the hard drive inside the computer so you can run programs + music directly off them delay free! You can get them in pretty big sizes, i have one and its 40gb and only a little bigger then my wallet |
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| CosmoKid |
i would get the hard drive. you will still need to store your music somewhere besides a memory card anyway.
hard drives can be had for real cheap. an external hd should cost you less then $1/gig. you can even buy a hd drive and an external enclosure for even cheaper.
memory cards are not cost effective for what you are trying to do. |
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| onceler |
| I have an external, 200GB HDD. Since I am using a desktop HDD in it, The drive unit is bigger than the 2.5" drives, but I get more space. It is USB2.0 / Firewire (IEEE 1394). I think the total cost was around $150 after shipping and everything. |
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| dj_lane |
| definatly go with an external HDD, its worth it. |
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| Dj Ricky H |
| The problem is that my Laptop is older....it doesn't have USB 2.0 or firewire.....the only way is to add another internal through the ultra bay...and what are the negative factors of using memory cards?....besides the price of the media right now? |
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| auujay |
I dont know why everyone is saying get an external HDD, he says he has on open drive bay so get a harddrive for that. IMO a HDD makes much more sense than an SD card simply because it shuold be so much cheaper.
However, you are correct in that SD cards offer a lot of advantages. I am not sure of this but I would assume they are way faster than a hard drive simply because they are solid state memory. Also because of this they are much lighter and offer much lower power consumption, both important features in a laptop. Also because it is solid state it has a very stable data retention, drop an SD card and I bet the data is fine just don't try it with a hard drive. |
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| SUNWmsf |
| I am not certain, but I thought that memory card bus speeds were around 10-16MB/s while a hard drive will be around > 40MB/s. |
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| auujay |
| quote: | Originally posted by SUNWmsf
I am not certain, but I thought that memory card bus speeds were around 10-16MB/s while a hard drive will be around > 40MB/s. |
Your right, sdcard.com says that the transfer speed is only 10 MB/s.... lame :) |
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| CosmoKid |
if your laptop is older then how are you connecting a memory card to it? if you add a card reader it will be a USB 1.1 reader anyway. it will only be as fast as what its connected to.
there are "pro" memory cards out now that are like 70x so that shouldnt be an issue anymore, but i dont know for sure.
i really think your best bet is to just add an internal hd to your current system.
you should buy yourself an external drive that can back up all of your music though. my buddy never backed up his mac and it failed and he lost everything. |
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| DannyO |
Get something like an Iriver H320 :D:D:D, I got one and I can listen to music anywhere plus store anything I want on it, and they come in 20 and 40gb sizes, but there not cheap.
But to be honest you should go for a harddrive to plug into your bay, you can add in just a regular desktop hardrive which are cheap, and can easly get a 200gb one, if you need to have a USB2 or Firewire pluggin, just get a PC Card that has the features, I'm looking ta getting one, and its only 80 bux canadian, and gives you 1 Firewire and 2 USB2.0 slots. |
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| Psiweaver |
| go with an external hd |
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