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Forget Using Your Storage Card as RAM - Mike Calligaro Tells us Why


 
 
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Old 04-03-2006, 11:00 PM
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Default Forget Using Your Storage Card as RAM - Mike Calligaro Tells us Why
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/03/31/566187.aspx

"What people would really like to do is use their storage as RAM. "I may only have 32M of RAM, but I've got a 1 Gig SD card that's mostly empty. It would be cool if I could use that SD card to run more programs." At first blush, this can't work at all. The SD card is made of NAND flash and flash is just too slow to be used as RAM. But hard drives are also too slow to be used as RAM. Yet, the desktop system manages to extend its RAM with clever use of the hard drive. Why can't Windows Mobile do the same thing with the SD card?"

Mike Calligaro has posted another great article providing great insight into the world of Windows Mobile devices on the Windows Mobile Team Blog. This time, he explains why we can't use your storage card as RAM. Well worth the read, especially if the different types of memory don't confuse you!
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