<p dir="ltr">Mechanically I can't see any reason why not as the cards should be broadly compatible with any reader although if you're running 32-bit I assume you have older hardware which might not. However, at the current price I'm not sure if it's worth it as a backup solution.<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 08:23 Nigel Verity <<a href="mailto:nigelverity@hotmail.com">nigelverity@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:10pt" face="Verdana,sans-serif" color="#000000" size="2">Hi<br><br>I am considering using high capacity SD cards (256 or 512Gb) for backups instead of the external USB hard drives that I use at present.<br><br>Can anybody assure me that SD cards of this capacity will actually be usable? Is there any constraint imposed by the OS (32/64bit), or by the laptop hardware (built-in reader vs external)?<br><br>I am currently running 14.10, 32 bit.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Nige<br></font> </div></div>
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