When swapping the card, Is is possible to backup the phone, swap cards, and then restore the phone to the device or is there some sort of Partition mumbo jumbo that goes into it that would break things?
I apparently have a lot of XBLive apps (and like to keep things installed) and after a fresh phone setup and install, I am left with less than 2.5G free of the original 14ish (on the stock 16G). Anything below 4 seems to slow down the device and anything below say 1.5~ the phone can become a flat out pig. I do look forward to the WP8 devices hopefully with a minimum of 16G of internal flash that has some good GC and maybe even Trim support to keep things from getting slow.
Also I am looking around and apparently a Class 10 now works fine all of a sudden? I can say I have always though Sandisk cards were crap and have yet to be proven wrong in the regard (had them fail, seen them fail, and well others have reported similar things with their Class 10 and below cards here and there).
One card I have had no problem with is the 16G Class 4 Polaroid (By PNY) chips in all my past phones and devices. After buying over 5 of them they all continue to work great. So I may stop by frys tonight and pick up one of
These.
Have any of you with the Class 10 32G filled that card to the brim and seen how it works under full load?
Looking around, it is like said before, the random read/write speed that is most important to the WP7 file system (Since it I believe stores everything in smaller files on the disk similar to a PS3 actually).
The Reason the Samsung's seem to be holding up is the consistant speed (even if still a tad slow.)
(From Amazon)
While a Class 4 will probably get closer to 1.6+MBs, this isn't to bad considering the high Sequential performance + the way above .0XX speed a lot of the other Class 10's are getting. The only one to get this close was a
PNY 32G for Tablet PC's that was able to hit a full 1.9 Random Speed
Sadly that chip is hard to find and not cheap.
So after looking for too long, it looks like the Samsung really is the best Class 10 to pick up right now. It has consistant Sequential and Random speeds which is nice to see, random speeds are high enough (eg not .300-.006 MBs) and overall look also the most reliable. Might have to open this beast up tonight to make the upgrade quick and painless...
