MacBook Air :: Using The SD Slot As Flash Memory?

Apr 2, 2012

For MacBooks with SSD drives and a SD card slot; is it practical to insert an "empty" SD card there and use it as spare flash memory to store files etc?  Any downsides to doing this?  Will the OS detect it like its a spare drive?

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MacBook :: Memory Slot 1 Reads Empty - Is Dead Slot

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May 20, 2010

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Oct 17, 2009

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Aug 31, 2009

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Dec 29, 2010

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Jan 2, 2010

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Jan 10, 2010

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MacBook :: Memory Slot Failed - Not Boot With Chip Installed

Jul 4, 2010

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Mar 20, 2012

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

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Jun 9, 2012

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Jul 4, 2008

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May 18, 2012

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Itunes Is F*CKED

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May 23, 2012

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Oct 21, 2010

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Dec 2, 2010

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Oct 26, 2010

Was looking to buy a new laptop to replace dying old XP Dell and compliment iMac. Was thinking of a 13" Macbook Pro but have got interested and excited by this new Air. Its the instant on and portability that appeals........ but on this forums in places and elsewhere on internet (even Wikipaedia) there appears to be concerned that NAND flash memory has a definite life.... so many 1s and 0s changing before it slows right down.

Is this right... how long will it be.... can it be refreshed by copying stuff, doing something and then loading back up.... or has it to be replaced. The iFixit teardown suggests it is replaceable but at what cost. ie don't want to buy one only for the memory to give up the ghost in a year or two.

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Jun 14, 2012

I read in another post here that the new all-flash memory is only good for about 100,000 saves, or 5 years for the average computer user. Is this really true?  It seems silly to promote using hardware that puts such a limit on the user..

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Jun 18, 2012

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MacBook Pro with Retina display

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Oct 23, 2010

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Does Apple use different suppliers for the different capacities/models (i.e. Samsung, Hynix, etc.)

I could make some guesses from the benchmark tests, but would like to have hard specs.

I tried contacting Apple, but the only thing they would tell me is the capacity available for purchase. I also don't have the guidelines to reference the flash specs based on the model of the Toshiba flash.

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Nov 9, 2010

I keep hearing about this negative aspect of flash memory, a finite number of write cycles. So what is that number when it reaches the limit?

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Jun 29, 2012

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Aug 24, 2014

My computer has 500 GB of capacity, but I have seen that every time I open a file or boot something the memory used rises a little. Is this normal? It is the first time that I have seen. 

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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

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Dec 24, 2010

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OS X :: Can't Plug In Any USB Flash Memory

Mar 23, 2009

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At first I thought my USB had a virus or some corrupt file, but when I realized there were no mac files (Just Windows and universal), I pluged in another USB, and the same thing happened.

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Oct 20, 2010

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Plus is the flash memory exchangeable?

Can you remove it and slave it for data recovery? Or is the info lost if the memory crashes?

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OS X :: Snow Leopard 10.6.1- Flash Player A Memory Hog

Sep 10, 2009

Just noticing the updated Flash Player on the new Snow Leopard update is taking about 660 MB of actual memory on my MBP.

Has anyone noticed and is this normal?

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Safari :: Why Does Flash Player Use So Much Memory In Lion

Feb 13, 2012

I have an issue I have been seeing since upgrading to Lion (10.7.3) and the latest version of Safari (5.1.3, I believe?).  When browsing the web for a while (particularly, Flash heavy sites, I have noticed my computer's temperature getting hot and more beach balling starting to occur.  The first time this happened, I opened Activity Monitor and noticed that Flash Player was using, almost, 900 MB of RAM (and I had less than 100 MB available).  Other than Safari, I only had a couple of other applications open, neither of which were memory intensive.  Quitting Safari gave me back a huge amount of memory, my temperatures, quickly, dropped back down to reasonable levels, and the performance lag went away. I never saw this kind of memory hogging under Snow Leopard.  Is Flash Player this much of a nuisance under, either, Firefox or Chrome? 

I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, 2.53 GHz, i5 with 4 GB of RAM. 

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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