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How to tell the difference on a SD port

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SD is formfactor, like the physical size of the actual card to use

HC means high capacity, which is anything above 4 GB

XC means super high capacity, which is like super huge

 

and yes they all are standards you just pick up any SD card on the market and you're good to go

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So I've been thinking a couple of weeks about buying a sdhc card because I'm running dualboot on my laptop and I sometimes have trouble accessing the shared partition between ubuntu and windows.

I'd mainly use the card to store small programs that I code myself so I need it to be kinda fast. I was thiking on buying a UHS-3 but I was wondering if my card reader would support that speed anyway.

 

On my laptop's specsheet it only mentions it as a SDHC/SDXC card reader. Is that the standard or do I need to know anything more about it? Would it run at max speed or will the port slow down the sd card?

 

As always, thanks beforehand :P

 

Edit: I initially thought about a SD card because my laptop has only 2 USB 3.0 ports which I'm already using, but I haven't still used the card reader.

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SD is formfactor, like the physical size of the actual card to use

HC means high capacity, which is anything above 4 GB

XC means super high capacity, which is like super huge

 

and yes they all are standards you just pick up any SD card on the market and you're good to go

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Thanks buddy, that was a great answer for a simple question :D

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