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Everything Else => Sharp Zaurus => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => C1000/3x00 Hardware => Topic started by: thurifer13 on March 10, 2006, 10:25:03 am
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Okay, will be buying a C3100 in the next couple of weeks and may have enough cash left over to splurge a bit. So here is what I'm thinking:
replace the MD with an 8GB cf flash card
add both a swap partition and a 3.5GB ext2 partition in the extra 4GB!
put one of the new relatively high speed 4GB MMC cards in the SD slot
for a grand total of 12GB on board!!!!
My questions are, is the 8GB flash card fast enough compared to the 8GB MD (half the price) to be worth the added expense?
And though MMC is slower than SD I should be able to exceed the 1GB limit of the SD cards and the latest MMC (not MMCplus) are supposed to be what 200x?? or so. So is there that much of a speed hit? I would probably stick my openoffice documents, etc on this where I just need to load the document and then occasionally save it. Leave the constantly read/write files on the cf card.
Any comments?
If I do spend the cash then I will be happy to run some benchmarks and report back if someone wants to tell me what I need.
Doug
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Okay, will be buying a C3100 in the next couple of weeks and may have enough cash left over to splurge a bit. So here is what I'm thinking:
replace the MD with an 8GB cf flash card
add both a swap partition and a 3.5GB ext2 partition in the extra 4GB!
put one of the new relatively high speed 4GB MMC cards in the SD slot
for a grand total of 12GB on board!!!!
My questions are, is the 8GB flash card fast enough compared to the 8GB MD (half the price) to be worth the added expense?
And though MMC is slower than SD I should be able to exceed the 1GB limit of the SD cards and the latest MMC (not MMCplus) are supposed to be what 200x?? or so. So is there that much of a speed hit? I would probably stick my openoffice documents, etc on this where I just need to load the document and then occasionally save it. Leave the constantly read/write files on the cf card.
Any comments?
If I do spend the cash then I will be happy to run some benchmarks and report back if someone wants to tell me what I need.
Doug
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well it depends on which CF card you are getting. Some flash cards are faster, some are slower, so depends which ones you are going to buy, with the sandisk extreme II being the most expensive and fastest. the newer microdives should be faster than the older ones as well so definately, upgrading to the 8 GB cards should give you more space and more speed, the question only is, how much faster and is that worth the extra money you are spending on it?
As for the MMC/SD card question, the Zaurus runs in MMC mode anyway, so you probably won't see any speed difference/increase using faster SD cards vs slower SD or MMC cards. Since nobody has tried 4GB MMC card yet, it is not known whether they will work with the C3x00 models. You can certainly try it out for us.
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Look foward to 2.6 on the zaursus due to the better SD speed support (see general descussions Tom Tom thread, hope it all goes well)