How to use sdxc port as extra drive for photo storage

want to use sdxc card to supplement internal drive to store and use with photoshop.
is this possible. new mac user, excuse lack of knowledge.
jerry torre

Judging from my experience, you can use an sdxc card as a drive, but it may seem incredibly slow. I formatted one to be Mac OS journaled and cloned my entire boot partition onto it using Carbon Copy Cloner - worked, but it took 6 hours!

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