I’m running out of storage space in my workhorse of a laptop that has a fixed storage of only 128GB. I was thinking of buying a M.2 NVMe SSD, however I find them quite expensive. A possible back rationalization of going on an impulse buy, is that I can simply carry over this new SSD to my future laptop, as I’m replacing this workhorse in about 3 to 4 years. But, by that time the SSD that I bought would’ve been much cheaper per gigabyte.
I might be over-considering, as data density trends grows very slowly. Anyways, I’m exploring the option of how it is with Raspberry Pi — just use an SD card, cheaper storage. I mean, there already are products that do this.
A microSD to M.2 adapter:
So, my question is that, if I use an SD card through M.2 as a storage or my laptop, what are the downsides to it? Aside from being slower (How much slower, really? Give me a warning).
I was thinking of putting Windows installation in this SD card, as Windows (minus the page file and Temporary Internet Files) hardly rewrites to its installation drive. My important personal files, I would keep in the SSD that the laptop came with and I won’t have to worry about the storage going bad.
Update: What if I use this M.2 SD card as the installation drive of programs? How often do programs like Adobe Illustrator, KiCAD, Office, a few games, etc… write in their own installation folder?
