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Originally Posted by harryE123
E.g. I just got me an external 2.5 wd hdd at 320gbs and the bozos had it with fat32, is there any reason for that? Surely not. That said, do you think ntfs would not work on an sd card?
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Well, external HDs are different, but the "bozos" probably had the same thing in mind I mentioned for SD cards: it just works on any OS. I deal a lot with users, and many of them don't even know the concept of filesystem. It's plug and play. If it was NTFS and they connected it to a Mac, they would try to return it as broken. And vice-versa. No such problem with FAT32. If you format the drive for your OS-preferred filesystem (NTFS, HFS+, ext3) you get all the benefits (4GB+ filesize, better reliability through journaling etc.) at the cost of compatibility. It's a trade-off and a choice has to be made, one not necessarily better than the other.
SD card formatting: haven't tried NTFS, but ext3. It works, but unless used with a Linux system, quite useless. Plus the card will wear out quicker because of the I/O overhead. (Again an issue adressed in SSDs through enhanced wear-leveling, at higher cost)
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Do they classify them in classes? what is class 6? <snip>
"There will be no 64GB card in SDHC because 32GB is the limit of the spec, just like 2GB was for SD."
Is it? Wasn't aware of that, thanks for the heads up.
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Wikipedia to the rescue.
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You think that would impact their perforance as a storage in the reader?...
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For the DR1000, I think not so much (the speed is more limited by the CPU trying to render the docs, esp. that crudtastic PDF format). But other devices, like higher-end digital cameras, rather a lot (from my own experience) That being said even 6mb/s isn't all that much.
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"16GB is plenty capacity for an -eBook reader-, and the 4GB filesize limit is plenty too. If you have a single PDF file that's more than that, you should rethink your document-deployment strategy (and I doubt it would be usable on the DR1000 if you could fit it on the card)"
I am an avid reader and I have wide range of interests for better or worse, so not 16 gb, not even 128 gbs can currently cover my library, of course I could crop it down to the bare essentials but that would be about 32 gb min...
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I was referring to a single file, not a library as whole, of course that'd be much more. The question that raises is: does one really need ALL of it at once, at any given moment. With a largish card and a fast reader, it should be possible to have more than enough for at least one day's work. I think a lot of people suffer from "hamster syndrome" where they want to stuff in everything if possible "just in case" (not just electronically, but in the real world too) When ask them if they have ever used such and such thing, the answer is very often negative. The DR1000 is a portable device, not an archival unit. One could always use a real laptop if that was necessary, and maybe throw in a 1.5 TB external drive...
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"(They recently announced a 64 Gb (Giga-bit- =8GB) memory chip which means half the chips for the same capacity)"
Who did?
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Samsung, but it's actually rather old news. The only reference to a 64GB SDHC card I could find was an (uninformed) article's speculation after the release of 32GB cards. BTW. the only class6 32GB I could find was launched at $700 this spring and still retails for around $400 from -reputable- sources. No thanks!