Guest @ngel Posted May 31, 2005 Report Posted May 31, 2005 I am about to order a mini SD for my new Qtek 8020... and I am balancing between 256 and 512... well... I do not use my phone as an mp3 player... so, do you believe that 256 MB is enough, or should I go for the larger one...???
Guest Confucious Posted May 31, 2005 Report Posted May 31, 2005 Go for 1Gb - you can NEVER have to much memory IMHO.
Guest BanziBarn Posted June 1, 2005 Report Posted June 1, 2005 ze bigger ze better.... ;) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'd agree, when it comes to memory, go big - 1gig is only £65 after all.
Guest cold_fire Posted June 1, 2005 Report Posted June 1, 2005 I am about to order a mini SD for my new Qtek 8020... and I am balancing between 256 and 512... well... I do not use my phone as an mp3 player... so, do you believe that 256 MB is enough, or should I go for the larger one...??? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I started with 128 and thought it should be enough ,but soon found out i needed 256 and now 256 is not enough anymore ,if u can go for the Gb it is huge 4 a phone. ;)
Guest @ngel Posted June 2, 2005 Report Posted June 2, 2005 I started with 128 and thought it should be enough ,but soon found out i needed 256 and now 256 is not enough anymore ,if u can go for the Gb it is huge 4 a phone. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think I'll go for the 512... ;) Thanx... 8)
Guest cold_fire Posted June 2, 2005 Report Posted June 2, 2005 I think I'll go for the 512... :D Thanx... 8) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Smart choice as well ,i will go 4 it soon too !!! ;)
Guest @ngel Posted June 4, 2005 Report Posted June 4, 2005 I just got a new FujiFilm 512 MB mini SD memory Card... I inserted it in my lovley Qtek 8020 and... it finds it as a 481 MB card... :shock: I think that 30 MB loss is too much... Am I doing something wrong...??? :roll:
Guest Spazmo Posted June 4, 2005 Report Posted June 4, 2005 No your not anything wrong. I got a 512MB miniSD card and i only has 481 MB. Most memory cards dont usually come with the full amount, I am not sure why. I seem to remember getting told once why, but I cant remember.
Guest beersoft Posted June 4, 2005 Report Posted June 4, 2005 its the old "there is 1000 bytes in a kb" trick storage vendors try and pull its a bit complicate and involves base2 and base10 maths which im too lazy/drunk to explain atm your card is (1000x1000x512) 512000000kb (the con that is storage megabytes) your expecting it to be (1024x1024x512) 536870912kb (what the real world thinks megabytes are) later Owen
Guest RISc Posted June 4, 2005 Report Posted June 4, 2005 its the old "there is 1000 bytes in a kb" trick storage vendors try and pull its a bit complicate and involves base2 and base10 maths which im too lazy/drunk to explain atm your card is (1000x1000x512) 512000000kb (the con that is storage megabytes) your expecting it to be (1024x1024x512) 536870912kb (what the real world thinks megabytes are) later Owen <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Then take away some more byters for file system i.e. FAT
Guest beersoft Posted June 5, 2005 Report Posted June 5, 2005 there is some loss due to the filesystem overhead but thats a whole new bucket of monkeys (and wouldn't add up to 30meg) later Owen
Guest @ngel Posted June 5, 2005 Report Posted June 5, 2005 So there is nothing to worry about, but the 31 megs... :cry:
Guest Confused Stu Posted June 5, 2005 Report Posted June 5, 2005 In short dude, no there's nothing to worry about. You've discovered another trick that the ad-men do with statistics. e.g. "512MB" is a name for the card rather than it's actual capacity "Your motorbike makes 100bhp" yeah - at the engine crank. By the time the power's hit the road you're talking about 80bhp instead. "Your TV is 32inches" but some of this isn't used, and some's hidden under the casing so you can only actually see about 30inches of them. You get the idea! ;)
Guest @ngel Posted June 5, 2005 Report Posted June 5, 2005 You get the idea! ;) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I got it... :D not that I liked it... :roll:
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