Thread: sony 950 taking 10 minutes to load homescreen
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Old 11-17-2011, 01:33 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by sovre View Post
I have tried backing up the Reader, reformatting the internal memory, then copying all my folders back--but this has had no noticeable effect on loading times. So I'm assuming I don't have any corruption in the database. I have more than 10% of internal memory free, so I can mark that off the list as a possible issue.

I am now in the process of moving some of my larger PDF files off of the main memory onto an SD card, to see if that will make any difference. vxf, you mentioned that not all SD cards are created equal, so I'm guessing you have really noticed a difference in loading times depending on the speed of the card? Right now I am just using an old card I had lying around, but I may invest in a new one. What speed do you recommend?

Thanks to those of you who identified annotations as a possible culprit. I do a great deal of highlighting and annotating while I read, so I think the next step for me will be to export some of my annotations and see the results of that.
I really did not keep tabs of the SD cards I tried. One thing I noticed is that if you go above 16GB, there is a noticeable slowdown (I think on paper it's supposed to support 32gb...).

I now have a SanDisk SDHC2 16gb card in mine, and that performs very well.

Also, I have a SONY MemoryStick Pro Duo Mark2 8gb and that seems pretty fast as well.

Wish I could provide more detail on the cards that were slow... but I don't have them anymore. Only thing I remember, a 32gb SanDisk I had was noticeably slower.

Another option i can think of is to install PRS+, move content to the SD card and disable indexing. Not sure what the drawbacks are - maybe someone with more tech understanding can explain what the benefits of indexing are.... I have PRS+, but I have not disabled indexing, because, ever since I move content to the SD card, things have been much smoother than when the same content was sitting on the internal memory... As I have said before, that makes no sense to me, but others have noticed it as well.
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