About A2SD and why many people go over the top

[Guest the-fallen]

A2SD (which kind ever) seems to be among everyone's favourite things on their android devices.

With that topic I just want to start a discussion to find out what's best. Read on...

Sure, its great and useful if you run low on space. That can be really annoying, can't it?

But I think many of the A2SD users just go over the top with that.

They do every thing to get as much internal space free as possible.

But why?!

You paid for it, why not using it (until it's full).

And (please correct me here if I am wrong) the internal memory is faster than an "external".

So why not keeping those apps you use most on the internal storage?

Ah yes ... I know. After you have "installed" A2SD you can not go back easy and moving apps from

SD to the internal memory would either take an adb access or at least a file browser (to move them).

But please, what's your opinion? Am I wrong? Do you see other advantages/disadvantages?

[Guest Subject Delta]

Depends on the class of the SD card you use really. I have a class 6 Transcend card, and it doesn't seem any slower using A2SD

[Guest dreamdealer]

Depends on the class of the SD card you use really. I have a class 6 Transcend card, and it doesn't seem any slower using A2SD

+1 I don't use swap on mine either. never noticed a difference.

[Guest spammyspam]

I use a Sandisk class 2 and haven't noticed any performance issues.

I like to think I'm quite tight when it comes to choosing which apps to install, and yet I found myself running out of space. I'm not even a power user. Although the internal memory is going "to waste", I guess it's good to know I have legroom for temp files/rom modifications etc. And I guess I could move apps to the system dir if I really wanted to.

I reckon being able to move most used apps to the internal memory is a great idea - I guess once Froyo's implementation (which can do that I believe) has evolved a bit we'll all be moving to that.

[Guest Time Sheep]

I'm using a class 4 card... No performance issues.

I don't hate using my internal memory, I just got my cache in it, and with A2SD I can rest assured that there will always be room for more apps. 4 GB SD card followed with my phone from the provider, and to be serious I can't think of anything that big, exept for movies. My music takes up like 1.5 GB... Looots of room for apps :lol:

[Guest afiorillo]

Android is so enjoyable that installing 150+ apps on a phone is not that strange. Moreover, given the initial installed size, caches and data files eat up more space as time goes on, so that 130 MB HTC gave to us sound really poor.

So, A2SD is simply mandatory.

Performance considerations are a bit out of scope here, since a good Class2 sdcard is able to manage all Desire's load requests without a hassle; as a plus, data intensive apps (like 3D games or GPS navigation systems) already rely totally on sdcard for their storage needs.

So I mark a +1 for A2SD: they invented it, let's enjoy it.

Edited June 29, 2010 by afiorillo

[Guest Subject Delta]

As most apps still put data on the internal memory, I personally wouldn't say it's being wasted anyway