SD card recommendation

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Recently bought SC live 4 and want to pack tracks on SD card. Is there any minimum requirements or recommendation for SD card? Thanks

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SanDisk, philips, kingstone, goodram - all work fine for me.

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ok, tnx. Any minimum speed of reading?

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The faster, the better.

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Don’t worry about UHS-ii though, its expense that isnt needed as most devices only support UHS-i

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As stated at support.denondj.com “SD cards must be Class 6 (c6) or faster”

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tnx for hint

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Just reading up on this, the C number is the minimum write speed in MB/s, so 6 literally means 6MB/s write speed.

There’s a chart here A guide to speed classes for SD and microSD Cards - Kingston Technology

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Is there a limit to the speed the internal SD card readers can handle?

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I shouldn’t think you’d break anything by using a faster card (unless they bring out a new different r/w format).

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Already choose SunDisk SDXC 64gB class 10 (140MB/s) tnx for detailed answers

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Whatever you get, for the love of Zuul, do not use SD card as your primary storage medium for your music. :slight_smile:

Not saying that you said this, just putting it out there. :smiling_face:

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Please elaborate

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I use SD cards for years as my music medium. Never had the smallest issue. What is the problem, You had?

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Thanks for insight

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@djliquidice isn’t saying “never use SD cards”, they’re saying “don’t use them as the primary storage medium for your music” - i.e. make sure you have the music files on your computer hard drive (as well as backed up elsewhere, but I digress…)

SD cards are pretty reliable but they do degrade, and much more quickly than storage designed to be long term like hard drives. If you don’t have the files that are on your SD stored somewhere else, there’s a very real chance you’ll lose some at some point.

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That goes for any kind of digital storage medium though, not just SD cards, and not just music storage.

Take regular backups of your important files, preferably onto several different types of media, and store at least one off site.

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I was planning on explaining that Zuul is the gatekeeper of Gozer. I like your answer better :nerd_face:

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SD Cards use the absolute cheapest form of flash medium and should not be used as your primary means to store your music. They are known to degrade and fail. They are also the most prone to counterfeit, with thumb drives and external SSDs coming in close.

In other words if you value the money, time and energy you put into your music, use a more reliable (high-quality, name brand) form of medium WITH a second one as backup, preferably a different model and name brand to avoid any issues where a batch of SSDs from a manufacturer is bad. An example of this would be Sandisk Extreme Pro SSDs :poop:the :bed: in 2023.

All storage will fail. Magnetic media, optical media, flash media - all will fail at one point.

However, if you’re willing to gamble with your music investment, go for it. =)

Having lost time and money on failed SD cards in the past, I do the following:

  • Primary music storage is a 1TB NVME SSD from Western Digital
  • Secondary (using Carbon Copy Cloner) music storage is a Samsung T7
  • Ternary is a RAID array.

I also do time machine for my main laptop’s local storage, which backs up the main hub & history DBs. =)

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