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Originally Posted by dhbailey
You can use a 4GB card with no problem as long as you keep the size of all the loaded data to less than 2 GB -- in other words, as long as you don't try to use the full capacity they work fine. Either SD cards or Memory Sticks. So people who have begun using the 4GB media but haven't reached that capacity think they work fine (which they do for that amount of data.)
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That is what I would have assumed based on my former experience testing RAM. Something is funny about the way the Connect software behaves. From my earlier post . . .
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Originally Posted by mogui
I then put the SD card back into my card reader and removed about 1G of MP3 files, taking the file size below the 2G point. The Reader took about 70 seconds to catalog the content of the card. It showed I now had 110 songs -- clearly untrue. Then I reconnected the Reader to the PC and started the Connect software. The Connect software now reported the content of my SD card as 18 books (as before), 99 pictures (a lot of album art from the MP3 folders) and 108 songs.
Next I put the SD card back into the card reader. I moved most of the MP3s into one folder and eliminated all of the album art and extra files. I wanted to eliminate folder nesting as a factor. Now I had 1.2G of Mp3s in 264 files. The card had a total of 1.76G in the filesystem. The Reader showed 110 songs. There should have been more than 260. The Connect software showed I had 108 songs on the card. It showed I had about 2.2G left out of a 3.8G capacity, but it wouldn't catalog all of the MP3s.
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I would be interested to see other results. I think the Connect software is confused by 4G cards that are nearly half full. My suspicion is that it is prudent to avoid > 2G cards.
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Originally Posted by dhbailey
I have fill-tested the 2GB cards and they work just fine.
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This is good to know.
I am not unhappy with the flat-file arrangement of the Reader. I can easily reconnect to download another book, so I won't keep my onboard catalog too full.