Can you make an sd card the main storage for a laptop?

[ThiFav004]

I want to buy a budget laptop, I found one, but it only has 32 GB of space. It has a MICRO SD port and a SD port. Could I know if I could make a MICRO SD CARD or SD CARD be the main/default storage for the laptop. (Including games, photos, videos, music, documents and exetra?
Thanks

 

[Illumynization]

No the microSD/SD card cannot hold the operating system.
Yes you can redirect all of the users folder over to the microSD/SD card.

 

[mjslakeridge]

If you do use a Micro SD or SD card for your storage, make sure you have a backup somewhere, as the cards can fail. And as said above, the OS must be on your internal drive.

 

[dangus]

yes you certainly could install windows on an SD card if it's large enough. two things to worry about though would be the relatively slow read/write transfer speeds and the fact that nand flash memory will "burn out" over time with enough read/write cycles.

 

[orlbuckeye]

What kind of laptop do you have? Only 32 GB of disk space. I know it's a SSD because you can't find a HD with 32 GB nowadays. You can get a 500 GB SSD for just over 100.00 to replace it.

 

[Illumynization]

What kind of laptop do you have? Only 32 GB of disk space. I know it's a SSD because you can't find a HD with 32 GB nowadays. You can get a 500 GB SSD for just over 100.00 to replace it.

Probably something like an HP Stream 13 or one of those Acer or Asus mini laptops

 

[ThiFav004]

I'm buying the ASUS VivoBook E403SA.