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Originally Posted by Villain
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Thank you. I got my first game to install on my SD card instead of the main memory.
Now, when people say BIS, what does that mean? I know, I'm total n00b when it comes to this stuff, as I've never really heard some of these terms before, so please bear with me.
Last thing (for now, anyways): I have an SD card and a CF card. The SD Card has 10 MB/sec transfer and the CF card simply says 4x on it (it's from my digital camera, we never used 128MB for pictures, so I am trying it on my Axim for now). Which is better for installing programs on? Which is better for movies? Which is better for music?
All of my music will be converted to 128kbps Ogg Quality 4 or MP3 (tried 64kbps and it sounded tinny on some songs). My movies, I haven't quite figured that out.. still playing with my new Ax and constantly resetting it to play with just the right software.
Thanks for the help so far. Aximsite has been a great place to learn more and more about this little device, as well as some of the best software out there to use for it.
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BIS is the Built In Storage. In other words, it's that extra space in the ROM that your operating system and core apps aren't using. For instance, if your PocketPC came with a 48MB ROM (not the RAM, mind you, which is where you typically install programs and store files) and your operating system only uses 30MB, then you have a bit under 18MB of unused spaced in ROM. ROM is much slower than RAM, but you can install a number of applications there if you don't want to put them on an SD or CF card and don't are hurting for RAM.
Regarding cards, I can say they are not all made the same. A number of people have commented on not-so-great experiences with certain brands and sizes of cards. As far as I've been able to tell, there's no appreciable difference between SD and CF---they're basically different form factors of the same kind of memory. However, speed does make a difference, regardless of whether you're using CF or SD. Though I'm sure someone's posted this on the net somewhere, I've not seen what transfer rate 4x or 8x equates to. I wished they all put the actual xfer speed (i.e., 10Mb/sec) on them. Movies, obviously, require more speed than audio alone does. but the general rule to use is the faster the memory the better your performance when trying to watch/listen to media. Remember, too, that your device may end up being the bottleneck if you get really fast memory. It may be that the slot in your PDA is only capable of transfer speeds of X whereas the card may be capable of Y. Unfortunately, X is all you'll get.
