MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Glo Memory Upgrade without opening your Kobo

RobertJSawyer · 01-18-2014, 01:55 PM

Except that it is indeed cool to take advantage of the full capacity of the built-in Micro SD card, it there any advantage to using the internal card vs. an external one plugged into the normal user-accessible slot (available on all Kobos except the Touch)? Faster access? If so, why? Aren't they both just going into card readers attached to the mother board?

Genuinely curious: for those doing actual hardware upgrades, in what way is prying off the back of the unit and inserting, say, an 8GB card better than just plugging an 8GB card into the user-accessible expansion slot?

I can see one way in which plugging a card into the external slot is better: you get 10GB in this scenario: the 2GB you had initially plus 8GB you just added; obviously, if you instead replaced the 2GB card with an 8GB card, your net increase is only 8GB. (Of course, you could put the 2GB card into the external slot then, but again, what's the advantage of internal slot over the external one?)

Yes, for the Mini, reformatting/replacing the internal card is the only way to add storage, but what's the plus side of doing it this way for Touch or Glo users?

Thanks!

01-18-2014, 01:55 PM	#24
RobertJSawyer Guru Posts: 738 Karma: 4306712 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto Device: Kobo Libra 2, Clara 2E, and Clara HD; Kindle PaperWhite	Except that it is indeed cool to take advantage of the full capacity of the built-in Micro SD card, it there any advantage to using the internal card vs. an external one plugged into the normal user-accessible slot (available on all Kobos except the Touch)? Faster access? If so, why? Aren't they both just going into card readers attached to the mother board? Genuinely curious: for those doing actual hardware upgrades, in what way is prying off the back of the unit and inserting, say, an 8GB card better than just plugging an 8GB card into the user-accessible expansion slot? I can see one way in which plugging a card into the external slot is better: you get 10GB in this scenario: the 2GB you had initially plus 8GB you just added; obviously, if you instead replaced the 2GB card with an 8GB card, your net increase is only 8GB. (Of course, you could put the 2GB card into the external slot then, but again, what's the advantage of internal slot over the external one?) Yes, for the Mini, reformatting/replacing the internal card is the only way to add storage, but what's the plus side of doing it this way for Touch or Glo users? Thanks!