Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

Marion, 2025-06-15 18:20:

What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

It's cheaper for the manufacturers.

And SD cards also come with drawbacks: some (cheap) SD cards tend to
fail without warning. And when used as "external storage" the stored
content is not encrypted and thus not protected at all when the device
gets stolen. And swapping SD cards regularly for backups is also not
really that useful, since the slots are not designed for many card
changes. Using an external USB storage via USB-C or apps like FolderSync
etc. to copy files to a network storage is often the better solution.

The only advantage of an SD card slot is, that you can expand the memory
if needed - but since even main stream devices come with at least 64 or
128 GB of memory I personally never missed SD cards any longer.


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