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Can i consider Micro sd card as my Hard drive?

Anonymous
2014-06-15T13:28:50+00:00

Hey Brothers! ,

                 I bought Surface pro 2 64 gb. now having a problem of low memory so I bought a portable hard drive for it. But i am still having a issue because surface have only 1 USB Port. So I am deciding to have Micros SD card for it. I wanted to confirm that will it work same as my hard drive, Means can I use it for games and all.?

Please Help me out on it.

 Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-19T22:18:58+00:00

    Hi, 

    Thank you for the quick reply. 

    However, what you want to do is not possible. 

    Here are some tips about Surface Storage that you might find helpful. 

    Let us know if you have other questions. 

    Best Regards, 

    Clare

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-18T22:28:53+00:00

    Hello FaXalRehman, 

    Welcome to the community and thank you for your question. We understand that you are considering purchasing a Micro SD card for gaming purposes, correct? We would like to provide the information that you need.  

    Could you give us more details so we have a better idea? 

    What are the games that you plan to install? If you want to install games from Windows Store, it is not possible to install them in a Micro SD card. 

    Let us know what's happening. 

    Regards, 

    Clare

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-15T14:34:02+00:00

    I wouldn't, but you can. Micro SD speeds max out at about 5-10mb a second. Installing a game would be terrible. You can move your libraries (like documents, pictures, videos) to the SD and the SD card is GREAT for that. But I would run ALL software off of the internal SSD and keep all data on the MicroSD.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-15T14:44:28+00:00

    but i can install a game on my windows and after that i will put it in SD card.abd use only to play a game.it will not disturb me in my other work. 

    so what you think about this.. no problem in it or their is a problem

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-19T05:39:10+00:00

    Hello Clare,

    The thing is I play games like Assasin Creed , NFS mostwanted 2 , Gta 4 , COD black ops 2. and you know that these games required high amount of storage.  I am not asking to install a game on SD card. i am asking that I will install a game on my windows C drive and aftef that I will copy it to SD card and delete it from C .this will help me to save space on My C drive to install another game.

        So after that I will play games thorough SD card.

    IS this possible?

    This is what i wanted to know. Thanks for answering me.

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