WoW on a SD Card?

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I use a Mac

So, the game takes up a large amount of a my storage space, and im starting to have trouble with it since im basically out of space.

My question is, can i use a SD card for the game? ive seen them, and they can take large amounts of space in them, but i wonder if it will work since its an external storage

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I’m told it does, though I’ve never tried it

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Shouldn’t be a huge issue.

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That would be pretty slow… Do you have a USB 3.0 slot? Use that with an external SSD drive.

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Researched some of it and apparently it works as long has they SD is connected to the computer and has to have the entire Folder of the game

Can anyone confirm this?

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it would be exactly the same as having it on an external drive. I’ve done that before, and it worked just fine, if a little slow.

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So at worst it can cause the game to load slower?

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I have wow on my main pc, usb hd, and usb SSD, all work well but SSD is way better for wow then normal SD card

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just add another drive or use an exrternal SSD/HDD or expansion drive.

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It might work if you get an SD card that is super fast. Samsung EVO Plus 128GB read speed is around 70MB/s and around 60 for write. It might be enough for it not to be a nightmare.

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Your speed is always limited by the lowest transfer rate. SD card slots do not typically have a high transfer rate, as market wise, they aren’t even common. External SSD via a USB 3.0 would be a more reliable option, but it depends.

How do you even have a SD card slot? Is it on your MOBO?

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Would an external ssd work?

Wait, you play on mac? How? I spent months trying to get it to work on my wife’s imac and not worked.

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If the mac is older than 2012 then the game wont work on it

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Yeah, slow ought to be the only issue. You only need 128GB of storage or so, and you can find USB SSDs that size for like $20-40.

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It is from 2015 and rain great until BFA, then as the patches progresses it was a solid downhill plunge.

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Yes you can but they’re slow. I’ve done it. It takes a while to log in, and again every time you change maps between expansions. You need a pretty fast card, I was able to run it off of a 128 GB Samsung key drive. You need a fast USB port, also.

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Are you sure you’ve been updating your drivers?

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It can work. I have a Mac Workbook Pro and had to do something similar. However there are a few things to consider.

  1. I would recommend getting an external SSD (1 or 2 TB)
  2. You wont be able to install patches/expasions directly on the SSD so what you would need to do is uninstall WoW from the Mac’s main HD then
  3. Reinstall the entire game onto the new external SSD

From then on you will need to have your external SSD pluged to your Mac in order to play WoW

Hope this helps

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What year is your Mac, OP? I have successfully upgraded my 2014 Macbook Pro with NVME ssd.(via cheap NVME adapter) Now it has 512GB.

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SD cards are usually ridiculously slow. A proper USB3 thumb drive might be better, but I doubt it (assuming you could even find one – that isn’t just re-badged USB2). Proper external USB3 (or thunderbolt, if possible) HDD or SSD would be your best bet, if you can’t add another internal drive