12 - 16 GB MicroSD cards.. When?

[boggsie]

Eventually I want to use my touch as an mp3 player. I have 10gb of mp3's (yes, I rightfully own each cd!) and I want a very large sd card for the touch, so I don't have to worry about picking and choosing which mp3s to carry with me. I'll just sync the entire music directory to the card.

[dzuchowski]

i want a 100 tyrabyte micro sd transflash card and i want to run my laptop os (vista) on it. i think that will be large enough for me

[boggsie]

Originally Posted by dzuchowski

i want a 100 tyrabyte micro sd transflash card and i want to run my laptop os (vista) on it. i think that will be large enough for me

I saw one of those at a swap-meet over the weekend. The guy wouldn't come down on price, though, so I p*****.

[blasphemous_prime]

Originally Posted by blue4shizzle

so why would we need a sd card with that much data anyway? what are you putting on there? i used to want to get a 4 gig sd card, but ive had this touch since it came out and im barely halfway full with the 1 gig card i got.. an i store EVERYTHING.. so my q is why would you need 12-16 gigs for!?!

it's also for people who like to view large movie files, cause i have plenty. i got all of my micro SDHC cards from amazon.com plus the mobilemate card readers for dirt cheap. plus they pay for themselves in the long run as well. . and who would wanna pay $100 for a 4GB MSDHC out the sprint store? (your sig says it all, so that's why i go to amazon... not just about fundamental use of resources, but common sense as well.)

[blasphemous_prime]

Originally Posted by boggsie

Eventually I want to use my touch as an mp3 player. I have 10gb of mp3's (yes, I rightfully own each cd!) and I want a very large sd card for the touch, so I don't have to worry about picking and choosing which mp3s to carry with me. I'll just sync the entire music directory to the card.

I have 4, 6, and 8GB MSDHC cards, so i have no problem putting all of my media files in each of them. that's the beauty of owning more than one...

[boggsie]

Originally Posted by blasphemous_prime

I have 4, 6, and 8GB MSDHC cards, so i have no problem putting all of my media files in each of them. that's the beauty of owning more than one...

I guess that's a good way of looking at it.

In my case, I didn't chase the curve with 4gb and 8gb cards, so I am willing to wait a bit longer for the next jump.

Best regards,
-boggsie

[BenS]

Originally Posted by Jok3sta

some people, like myself use there ppc's for things other than email and text. I personally use my touch as a mp3 player when I am at the gym. I have 100s of gigs of music so a 16gig card would be sweet for me. I could fill that up in a half hr

How do you sync your music in 1/2 hour, I have a 4 gb micro and to fill it is almost 2 hrs.

[boggsie]

Originally Posted by BenS

How do you sync your music in 1/2 hour, I have a 4 gb micro and to fill it is almost 2 hrs.

If I were to guess, it may have something to do with file size / bit rate. Low bit rate = lots of small files, where high bit rate = fewer files that are larger in size. What I don't know (for sure), is which method is going to be faster for a sdhc card. I would suspect that because Sustained Transfer Rate is lower for sdhc, that fewer larger files would fill up the card at a much slower pace.

Best regards,
-boggsie

[holo]

it has nothing to do with the bitrate, number of files really won't matter that much (although maybe a little).... the phone transfers very slowly, try using an actual card reader and plugging into usb, or getting a mass storage program which makes your phone act like a microsd card reader instead of going through activesync (the cause of the slowdown)....

also, different cards have different speeds, some microsd cards are faster than others....

[hibby50]

how do they cram so much memory into such a tiny chip??