<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Also bear in mind that SD cards are wildly variable in quality. Don’t use them to store your only copy of something important :)<div><br></div><div>John<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 21 Jun 2020, at 22:56, Andrew Smith <asmith9983@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Andrew<div>Symbolic links will do the job just fine.</div><div>-s option with ln. I used a similar situation to store all my iplayer downloads on a separate drive.</div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Andrew <br></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 20:39, Andrew Ramage <<a href="mailto:andrew.ramage.1963@gmail.com">andrew.ramage.1963@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have decided that lining them to a directory under my home directory <br>
is the best option. Here are the commands.<br>
<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks$ mkdir One<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks$ cd One<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks/One$ ln /media/andrew/6435-3539/<br>
ln: /media/andrew/6435-3539/: hard link not allowed for directory<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks/One$ ln -s /media/andrew/6435-3539/<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks/One$ cd ..<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks$ mkdir Two<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks$ cd Two<br>
andrew@andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Disks/Two$ ln -s /media/andrew/76E8-CACF/<br>
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Will I be able to save files to directories One/6435-3539/ and <br>
Two/76E8-CACF/ to put files on the SDs ?<br>
<br>
On 21/06/2020 20:09, Roy wrote:ow do I find<br>
><br>
> On 21/06/2020 18:59, Andrew Ramage wrote:<br>
>> ed I have just acquired a hub for SD cards and two 64G SD cards. Is <br>
>> there any way to link these cards to the SSD in my computer, which <br>
>> has 45.9G free space ?<br>
>><br>
> Andrew,<br>
><br>
> How are they connected to your PC?<br>
> onn<br>
> Internally, they are the same technology as your SSD but the SD card <br>
> interface makes them less than half the speed, at best.<br>
><br>
> To keep the size and cost down, SD cards may be missing features that <br>
> an SSD has, like trim and wear leveling.<br>
><br>
> Do some speed tests before you think about how the merge them with <br>
> your SSD. That may indicate that there are areas of your install that <br>
> they are not suitable for.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> Roy Bamford<br>
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