What is the maximum capacity of SD cards that XDA supports?
Can I put 128MB SD card in XDA?
If you have used the search button or looked on other postings you'll have seen that the maximum capacity used in the XDA is in the moment at 512MB
(I don't now, if any bigger is available...)
So you can use your "small"SD card with 128 megs without problems....
Regards
Stefan
Hi,
Can anyone having micro SD 2GB ultra card can tell us about its performance? I have heard that 2Gb card as such had some impact on the performance of the phone and slows it a bit down? Is there any improvement using this faster card?
I have SanDisk 2GB MicroSD - in my opinion it's quicker than my previous 1GB.
I have seen sandisk 2gb ultra II micro sd card in the market. I just wanted to know if it improves the performance over the simple 2gb micro sd card?
i have a SanDisk 2GB standard MicroSD and performance is great, no slow downs on anything.
its a lot faster than a 1Gb card (can't remmeber make, probably SanDisk) that was with my Universal, that was sloooow...
sorry that that doesnt really answer your question, but in my opinion i think that there isn't much gain in opting for the Ultra MicroSD card, as there's not anything wrong with the standard one!
Comparing performance with different flash cards, be sure they are formatted with the same file system (FAT16/FAT32) and the same cluster size. Instead, your comparision results ae meaningless.
Lurker0 said:
Comparing performance with different flash cards, be sure they are formatted with the same file system (FAT16/FAT32) and the same cluster size. Instead, your comparision results ae meaningless.
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And what are the best in your opinion? (cluster size and 16/32)
sergiopi said:
And what are the best in your opinion? (cluster size and 16/32)
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I'd suggest you to search for existing threads and articles.
There is no a one-for-all solutions. One thing that I'd recommend is to format with one FAT copy (again, do a search). Then, the bigger the cluster size, the better berformance, but, OTOH, the more space is wasted. With a statistics provided e.g. by SK Tools anybody may make their decision on how to balance. SK Tools also a good tol to format cards with.
As for FAT16 vs FAT32, this is the last thing to decide. If a chosen cluster size allows FAT16 for the card, better to use it. If it does not - you have no a choice but to use FAT32. The only drawback of FAT16 is a fixed root directory size, which is not a big isue with large (16K to 64K) cluster sizes required for FAT16 on big cards.
But the main point for this thread still is: comparing flash card speeds, use the same format parameters.
Had anyone done this kind of comparison on different micro sd cards?
It imaging that this level of testing is about pointless, the typical bottleneck here is likely to be the reader device, not the card.
The phone will likely be the slowest aspect, at least when compared to a desktop reader...
You might find a turtle that can sprint, but it will still be a turtle
Ive got an 8GB memory card.
I've removed a hefty portion of files which in my head should leave the card under 2 gig used, however the system seems to state ive used just over half.
I cant find any other files which may use this kind of memory useage - any suggestions?
S2 have a 16 gig internal memory, so why does mine say 3 gig used and 8 available? Where is the other 5 gig? I'm running a custom ROM (not had chance to update my sig yet) would that make a difference? I can't seen to find out what this 5 gig is........
Thanks
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i dont have the exact number to the nearest MB but it works something likes this...
16GB on internal memory equates to 14.4 (approx) GB available memory...
you can see something similar in any windows/linux PC...when you try to see the disk space...available is alway less than total...dont worry/bother right now why its like that...
ok now from 14.4 GB available... you take out 2.1 GB (approx) for internal memory (also called partition for storing Apps)...
this leaves you with 12 GB (approx) free...called the SD card memory (separate from any external SD card you might put in)
its like that for each and every SGS2 16GB model user.... nothing to worry about..
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i dont have the exact number to the nearest MB but it works something likes this...
16GB on internal memory equates to 14.4 (approx) GB available memory...
you can see something similar in any windows/linux PC...when you try to see the disk space...available is alway less than total...dont worry/bother right now why its like that...
ok now from 14.4 GB available... you take out 2.1 GB (approx) for internal memory (also called partition for storing Apps)...
this leaves you with 12 GB (approx) free...called the SD card memory (separate from any external SD card you might put in)
its like that for each and every SGS2 16GB model user.... nothing to worry about..
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ah right, so nothing to worry about... thanks for clearing that up mate.
I have a Samsung Galaxy light, and it is rooted. Yeah, this is a relatively low end phone that cost me about $50 a year ago, but it still sometime seems a bit slower than I think it should be unlocking the lock screen, or loading apps.
I used the app Android A1 SD Bench to benchmark the SD card and internal memory. Here are the results.
Exteral SD card ---------Read 37.1MB/s Write 11.88MB/s
Internal memory--------Read 12.31MB/s Write 1.62MB/s
SD Card (see note)-----Read 19.39MB/s Write 2.26MB/s
Now I'm not quite sure what the SD card item was, the total size was identical to the internal memory, but with a 20MB difference in free space, so I assume it is some other reference to the same internal memory, but it somehow performed faster.
Either way, you can see, according to this app at least, that my SD card is way faster. Any good ways to take advantage of this without getting too overly in depth?