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Very few people use SD cards these days, with the massive decline in camera usage.

• hinkley 4y ago
  The SD card slot is a pretty good way to get yourself a little more disk space - a perennial problem with students in particular. There are a couple of companies that make aluminum trays sized to exactly fill the sd card slot on older Macbooks and remain flush (there's a detente for sticking a wire in to pull it out. The tray has wiring for a microSD card. On that machine, I moved my iTunes library there. Since it's read-only, I don't need to worry too much about wear or write IO bandwidth.
  • dalyons 4y ago
    > a perennial problem with students in particular. is it? AFAIK kids these days need less storage than ever before, because everything's cloud based. No one has itunes libraries, its spotify/applemusic subscriptions. etc.
    • hinkley 4y ago
      Learning to declutter is a life skill. The younger you are the less likely you’ve climbed that mountain. Nintendo switch or gaming computer might be a more common problem than music collection.
    • asdff 4y ago
      Some stuff like photo or video will eat up your freeish cloud based storage for long. iphone backups into icloud too. then you are into the $120 a year plans for like 2tb of storage even though that can probably buy 4tb of local storage these days. they sell 1tb phones for a reason, people have a lot of files.