SD card capacity

[aaronw_1986]

Hi all. So I just ordered my n800 yesterday! I am pretty excited, it's supposed to arrive on Tuesday. I have a question regarding SD cards...I ordered a 2GB SD card from buy.com since it was free after rebates! Will this be enough to get me started? How much memory is really needed for installing programs and such? If the SD card doesn't come for a few days, will the included memory be sufficient? Thanks.

[rickh]

Hi all. So I just ordered my n800 yesterday! I am pretty excited, it's supposed to arrive on Tuesday. I have a question regarding SD cards...I ordered a 2GB SD card from buy.com since it was free after rebates! Will this be enough to get me started? How much memory is really needed for installing programs and such? If the SD card doesn't come for a few days, will the included memory be sufficient? Thanks.
2 Gig is plenty to start. But you should be aware that you can't install programs to the SD card(s). The only thing you can put on the SD cards is data. But with 256 flash, you should have no trouble installing most all the prorams you would want.

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[TA-t3]

I've installed a lot of stuff and even keep the maemo maps on the home partition (of the internal flash filesystem) -- I've still got more than a 100MB left. :D
I use the two SD cards for things like PDF files, backups, some .debs that aren't installed wirelessly from repos, things like that. Excellent for music files too I suppose, I only use the radios. But the internal flash is large enough not to worry much about space for programs.

[aaronw_1986]

Oh, thanks for that info, didn't know programs had to be installed on internal memory. But, that is fine for installing some programs?

[TA-t3]

Well, that's where they're meant to be installed, and there's plenty of room. Note that we're talking about two internal memory areas: 128MB RAM, which is the actual program/data memory where programs are executing, and 256MB internal flash, which is the filesystem (like the system hard disk). In addition to that you have the two SD slots.

[Milhouse]

Any probgram that needs to be installed will install to the internal device memory - there's 256MB of device memory and plenty is free to install a ton of applications. :)

The N800 will work just fine without any SD cards, but your 2GB card when it arrives (great deal btw!) will give you room to store plenty of music, video and other data (eg. maps).

[mavepoor]

i have 2 4gb sd cards on my n800 and i can tell you that it has a lot of memory. unless you will put movies on your sd card to watch on your n800, 2gb should be fine for files and about 200 mp3s.

[munky261]

i got 2 4gigs as well , cant wait for the 32 gig sdhd cards to be released tho

[netPD]

Will the new sdhc 32GB work with these?

[Milhouse]

32GB SDHC cards should work in the N800 using the SDHC kernel, however I've never yet seen even a 16GB SDHC card available for retail (though they have been announced for release later this year) - I doubt we'll see 32GB SDHC cards until well into 2008.

8GB SDHC cards are plentiful, work perfectly with the N800 SDHC kernel and are quite reasonably priced. :)

SDHC Kernel (http://intr.overt.org/blog/?p=50) if you need it - install with the Linux flasher, doesn't remove installed applications etc. (which is a good thing). :)

[jpj]

I've never yet seen even a 16GB SDHC card available for retail

Patriot Memory showed off their 16GB Class 6 SDHC at last month's PMA 2007 tradeshow, with projected retail availability this month. I've launched a few contacts trying to find out whether they'll be on time. If I hear anything back, I'll be sure to post the info.