SD Vs. SSD: Comparing Solid State Storage Device Types

SD and its variants (SDHC and SDXC) are great for cameras, but when you are looking for a drive for your games, files, and general computing, pick the solution that was built for that. SSD Drives are about the same price, but can easily be 100x faster than their SD equivalents.

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[DivineHand125]

i'm get confused when you say these drives have a limited amount of writes. Does that mean that after you've written a certain amount of data to the card/drive you will need to buy a new one if you wish to write again?

[WebsiteToSell]

This is good information to know. The speed difference is quite amazing.

[TizzyT455]

@AndrewDeLong Ok so your somehow thinking an SSD is internal only or something? An SSD only needs an external enclosure and it too will be "transportable" even USB 3.0 if you want, and before you say an external enclosure will make it more expensive then your proposed system let me tell you that one only costs ~$15, and its usb powered so no power brick.

If you think I'm lying go to newegg and look for "MASSCOOL UHB-2233", that will be good enough for the job.

[AndrewDeLong]

@TizzyT455 Transportable, as in I can take the data from the SD cards and plug it into any other computer.

[TizzyT455]

@AndrewDeLong LOL ok you want to play that game...I gots you,

I only picked out the cheapest one found on newegg but I will recommend one that I have myself.

Its a crucial M4 128GB and its ~$230 (when I got it) and its ~$180 now.

It is from a quality brand and can verify personally that its is a quality SSD,

specs are:

read = 415MB/s,

write = 175MB/s.

So yeah still cheaper and faster, plus I don't know what you mean by transportable as it's a 2.5 drive.

[AndrewDeLong]

@TizzyT455 The rip off (in my opinion) is buying that cheap SSD at $135. Sorry, but a reliable SSD @ 128GB runs more in the neighborhood of $200 to $300. At $135, you're basically paying for crap. So again, the system I devised is still priced competitively with one SSD, and the data is more transportable to boot.

[TizzyT455]

@HungrySandwitch Please next time distinguish between bit/second and bytes/second some might get confused. I personally use Mb/s to show bits and MB/s to show Bytes.

[UNIXSOLJA]

Whats average ssd goes 1.5 GBps? This is the second time i have seen this guy saying stuff that doesn't make sense.