SwellDisk 300% Enlarge Memory Card WM5 1.8.6

[SPVlover]

Hello everyone..

I know this has been talked about befor but i want to have all info about this in one place.

Mods: move around as you wish.... Sticky?


I was looking throu pocketgear and found this : http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=19899
There is no Demo to download so i thought.... take the risk.
i bought the software and 1 week after i got my reg code too unlock.
I have a 2GB SDcard, put it in my pocketpc ( Orange SPV m5000 , HTC Universal )

i used SewlklDisk and now have 5.8GB of free space.
With Card Export ( software to transforme your pocketpc into a usb drive ) i conected to my pc and..... 5.8 GB USB device detected.
hvent filld it up yet, but RescoExplorer and internal storage viewer indicate also 5.8GB of usable Space.
Here is another one...: http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=22364

There are some Slowdowns, but only when saving to the SDcard, and only minimal.

If anyone else has this sofware ( or not ) tell me about your expiriences and thoughts..

[6680abhi]

Try fill it up to over the original capacity. Thats when problems appear apparently....

[phsnake]

btw. something similar was here with win95 - doulbe space,& u were able 2 use aprox 60-70% of capacity that showed. not worth of money

[markgamber]

In fact, there were a bunch of these programs for Windows 95 way back when. Turns out they were all minimally useful at best and, as I recall, a couple of outfits that churned out "memory doublers" were successfully sued because they did absolutely nothing.

[victorcertal]

After all these answers, I supose that the experience says that it´s not a good idea to use this program to enlarge the memory? Or is there anyone who have a good experience whith this program??

[EastExpert]

"Enlarge" seems to be not 100% correct word here.

You may "enlarge" the displayed storage capacity, but real capacity would be not as high, so you'd end up deceiving yourself...

The idea of compressing data written on disk comes up quite often, and then larger disks destroy it. Then again the same occurs on the next level.

I personally prefer the "honest" capacity. There may be applications using the "sparsely filled" files, where the compression would be beneficial; but all round, the gain is normally 1.2-1.5:1 on average files, and might not be worth it, considering increasing read/write times... MP3's or MPEGs, even worse, are already compressed and are virtually incompressible as such -- so if you think more songs will fit on that "5.8GB" card, ... think again :)

So, I'd just buy a double capacity device. But, tastes differ and your mileage, as Americans say... may vary.

[taurus_bull2005]

"Enlarge" seems to be not 100% correct word here.

You may "enlarge" the displayed storage capacity, but real capacity would be not as high, so you'd end up deceiving yourself...

The idea of compressing data written on disk comes up quite often, and then larger disks destroy it. Then again the same occurs on the next level.

I personally prefer the "honest" capacity. There may be applications using the "sparsely filled" files, where the compression would be beneficial; but all round, the gain is normally 1.2-1.5:1 on average files, and might not be worth it, considering increasing read/write times... MP3's or MPEGs, even worse, are already compressed and are virtually incompressible as such -- so if you think more songs will fit on that "5.8GB" card, ... think again :)

So, I'd just buy a double capacity device. But, tastes differ and your mileage, as Americans say... may vary.

Installing this disables the Visibility of Extended Rom i mean if any one has unlocked Extemded rom & installed some applications in the EXT Rom.

Any solution please ,i even wrote to the CEO of the Swell disk org no responce. Cheers, T

[tech.junkie]

hmmm, sounds too good 2 b true.

can those who have this software test by filling up their cards close 2 their max. level & leave only a few MB's? & then try accessing d files & software stored on d card. this way, we'll know if d app really works.