⟐ Answered января 12, 2026 at 14:37 GMT-7

⟐ Answered августа 19, 2026 at 7:17 GMT-7

Do Android phones get slowed down by having an SD card installed?

Before you jump right to the NO answer, because I know that most people think that this is one of the major plusses of Android as an OS, and everyone uses SD cards... Hear me out...

I've had a T-Mobile G1, G2, MyTouch 4g Slide, Galaxy S3, Note 3 and Note 4. With every single one of them I've used SD cards. I've always had pitifully slow experiences, but I love Android so I stick around. It's always great when I first get it, or after a system wipe. But once I put in an SD card, things start to slow down. No I haven't been using the same SD card. Yes I've formatted the SD cards in various stages of using them. They're all top of the line, highly recommended cards. Whatever is recommended in the forums as the best of the best at that time is what I've gotten. They're not particularly full. The main reason I get them is for the camera, because all those pictures and videos can fill up my internal storage which I have to use for apps and games. I currently have around 10gb free on my 32gb Note 4. I wiped my phone (and formatted my 64gb card) less than a month ago because of bad performance. After getting all set back up and running great, I popped back in my freshly formatted 64gb card. Pretty much right away I started noticing the difference in performance. Now it's been a month and I actually have stuff on the card, and it's just dreadful. Opening the camera can take a solid 10 seconds. Sometimes I hit home and everything is just frozen for 5-10 seconds before the home comes back up. Opening Facebook brings up a white screen for at least 3-5 seconds. Opening the app switcher always takes 5 seconds (that's a known bug from what I've read). It's just laggy. It's awful. And again, I've formatted the card, so I know there's not some data on it that's causing the issues. As for whether or not it's the card itself? Well like I said, in a history of 6 phones, I've probably had 8 or 9 different cards. So while I haven't specifically tried a different card in THIS phone, I can 99% guarantee that a different card wouldn't make a difference. Plus if that WAS the problem... What did I get 8 or 9 bad cards out of 8 or 9 cards? is the microSD card industry that bad? haha.

So anyway. I think this weekend I'm gonna figure out what is on my card currently since the last format (who knows what apps put what on there), and see if it will be cool for me to just pop out the card and try living SD-free for a little bit, even though it's gonna be impossible to manage storage with just the 32gb included. But if it works faster, then I'll know for sure.

In the meantime, I'm just curious. Am I alone here? I know I'm not, because I have a couple friends who used to call me crazy but have recently started saying (and acting like it's THEIR observation and I never said it before) that Android with an SD Card in sucks. But I'm wondering in this forum, since I"ve gotten help in here in the past, who agrees with me?

Here's hoping the T-Mobile variant of the Note 5 has a bare minimum of 64gb storage (praying for 128). I'll gladly pay extra for it.

⟐ Answer edited августа 17, 2026 at 4:03 GMT-7

⟐ Answer accepted августа 14, 2026 at 10:27 GMT-7

Currently, the information is attached in chronological order from bottom to top in the first 18 images. Please forgive me for the rest of the images; I attached them by mistake because they are not useful.

The 63 °C temperature was the highest temperature my SSD recorded.

The SSD is properly communicating to the pc, i didn´t installed and configured Optane Memory.

After configuring the RAID mode, I removed the HDD I had installed and configured the RAID mode alongside the SSD I mentioned there (the one I want to repair and am asking you how to repair). I then connected another HDD, installed Windows on it, and afterward connected the previously mentioned SSD. In the BIOS/UEFI, under Advanced → PCH Storage Configuration → SATA Mode Selection, it was set to AHCI, after previously having been configured as Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration (RAID). I had only installed and configured RAID mode with the penultimate-mentioned HDD and the previously mentioned SSD.

The attached images were taken after I did what I mentioned in my last reply on an OS installed on the SSD mentioned there.

Currently, the attached images were taken after I did what I mentioned in my last reply, counting this one, on an OS installed on the SSD mentioned there.

⟐ Commented августа 13, 2026 at 18:07 GMT-7

Thanks for any help you can give!!!

Whitney

⟐ Commented августа 06, 2026 at 16:42 GMT-7

Now it shows up in disk management as unallocated, and my GetData Recover My Files software could see and scan it. Unfortunately, it could not find any files on it (I have always used this software for data recovery and have had a fairly high success rate with it).

Does anyone have any suggestions for software to recover data from a functioning (I guess) SSD? I appreciate any help. Thanks!

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⟐ Answered июля 09, 2026 at 6:06 GMT-7

⟐ Answer edited июня 29, 2026 at 23:06 GMT-7

⟐ Answer accepted июня 27, 2026 at 4:49 GMT-7

⟐ Answered июня 23, 2026 at 20:35 GMT-7

Key Problem: I need to download 1.5 Tb of data from a paid data storaGe service to an external drive from the auction before I'm charged another year's subscription fee on Monday.

Question: Can one successfully cut the device plug from the main housing of a 12v power adapter and attach a device plug that seemingly fits? I have a new looking LACie Minimus with no writing at all other than "LACie". No amperage printed either but @oldturkey03 and I believe it to be 5v 2A. What say you? Can it be done without zapping the drive? I don't want to wait and be charged, I also don't want to destroy it if its just impossible. I need to know, given what I've shared, is it possible? And how,, I need that too, lol. Instruction and encouragement is always appreciated. Thank you!

⟐ Answer edited июня 19, 2026 at 18:56 GMT-7

I’ve got a “vintage” LaCie Petit hard drive that I had not plugged in in a while (understand a good 10 years). As I wanted to use it, I found out my latest laptop would not recognise it. I assume this is because an old driver on my hard drive. Any idea how to proceed to be able to reuse it, please?

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⟐ Answered июня 10, 2026 at 3:51 GMT-7

I have an E6400 with Computrace active in BIOS - 1440x900 Quadro NVS P series Core 2 Duo, so the good one. Absolute confirmed the machine was left active on an old dead subscription and the prior owner dealt with it and confirmed it is ready to be deactivated but the hard drive was pulled. The drive is a WD10SPCX I pulled from a a janky IdeaPad. Will this drive work properly in the E6400 so I can get the agent removed from the machine under XP or Vista Ultimate?

(Yes really, an E6400 licensed for Ultimate and not Business or XP Pro)

⟐ Answer edited июня 08, 2026 at 19:12 GMT-7

(And I know I could just drill some holes in the drives, which is what I may end up doing, but I like the idea of total information destruction that shredding provides and I like the idea that they'll recycle the remains properly afterwards.)

⟐ Answered мая 28, 2026 at 11:26 GMT-7

This stick has 5 PINS which do not follow normal USB stick convention. I need to resolder a 4 pin USB-A cable to the board and need to know which pins are VCC, GND, D+, and D-,.....I have buzzed out with a meter but come up with nothing except the middle pin pictured is GND ?? go figure...anyone know anything at all about this ? SANDISK will not release any pinouts or schematic

Photo with RED must be the 4 PIN USB A 2.0 connections.....unfortunately it is snapped off the board taking half the tracks with it by the looks. I am locating the same stick to recreate the tracks, connect the 4 x USB wires, and hopefully recover data !!

Thanks everyone for your help !

⟐ Answer edited мая 28, 2026 at 6:34 GMT-7

I popped it open to have a look, and the only think I saw that looked out of order were these semi transparent things. They look cracked.

What are these, and could they have caused the problem?

They look like fuses to me, and they are non conductive. There's absolutely no conductivity through them. Just OL with a multimeter.

⟐ Answered мая 27, 2026 at 16:35 GMT-7