09-09-2004, 10:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Crazy SD Memory Prices!
Looking to buy SD memory? Now might be the right time. 
How quickly can prices continue to drop!?
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09-09-2004, 10:19 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Nice! Think this is the time to use my $10 Amazon gift certificate. Now I only wish I could use the extra space to store my Napster music. :roll: lol...but that's been discussed. :wink:
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09-09-2004, 10:25 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 6
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Pocket PC as a usb hard drive
Does anyone know if you can make a Dell Axim x5 or x30 work like a usb thumbdrive on a windows PC? In other words, is there any software out there that enable a pocket pc connected to a computer using a usb cable to show up as a physical or removable drive without the use of Activesync.
I would love to use the 1GB SD card in my Axim as well as use it as a portable drive to ferry files from home, school and work (like a usb drive, w/o the need for activesync)
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09-09-2004, 10:30 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Re: Pocket PC as a usb hard drive
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Originally Posted by NeutrinoQ
Does anyone know if you can make a Dell Axim x5 or x30 work like a usb thumbdrive on a windows PC? In other words, is there any software out there that enable a pocket pc connected to a computer using a usb cable to show up as a physical or removable drive without the use of Activesync.
I would love to use the 1GB SD card in my Axim as well as use it as a portable drive to ferry files from home, school and work (like a usb drive, w/o the need for activesync)
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Nope, unfortunately you can't. This seems to be being asked a lot recently...maybe Microsoft will do something like that in time for Longhorn.
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09-09-2004, 10:38 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 59
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The 2 GB SD cards are coming out soon. That must be why the 1GB is becoming so cheap now. The 2GB SD cards will have usb 2.0 speeds and although it won't make them much faster in Pocket PCs, it should make it faster to copy files onto the SD from your desktop (assuming you have a usb 2.0 card reader).
I was going to buy one but meh, I can live with my 256mb sd + 1gb cf. I'll get a 1GB sd or maybe 2gb sd (if they aren't expensive) when I get a VGA ppc later on.
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09-09-2004, 10:46 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 34
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Nice offer, but the problem is that they are SanDisks and therefore known not to work properly or only very slow in most PPCs. We made lot�s of tests in our german ppc-community, SanDisk always lacked performance.
Currently I�m holding my eyes on the Transcend 1 GB SD - almost as fast as Lexar (the ones from Japan) or the SanDisk Ultra II.
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09-09-2004, 11:20 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 42
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SD prices have been dropping like greased PPC's - I expect them to continue to do so, especially with the larger caps coming out.
I expect most enthusiasts will have 128's, 256's and eventually 512's pretty much just collecting dust - SO
I HAVE AN INVENTION IDEA
IF you are smart, you will steal it and be rich.
Why can't there be such a thing that fits into an SD slot that is essentially an SD drive bay? One male tab into the PPC (etc.) and 3 or four female slots connected to that. Certainly must be a way to make a driver that will allow the various other cards to total up and become one virtual storage location.
What you think??
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09-09-2004, 11:52 PM
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09-10-2004, 01:04 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 114
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Re: Pocket PC as a usb hard drive
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Originally Posted by NeutrinoQ
Does anyone know if you can make a Dell Axim x5 or x30 work like a usb thumbdrive on a windows PC? In other words, is there any software out there that enable a pocket pc connected to a computer using a usb cable to show up as a physical or removable drive without the use of Activesync.
I would love to use the 1GB SD card in my Axim as well as use it as a portable drive to ferry files from home, school and work (like a usb drive, w/o the need for activesync)
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buy a card reader, if i understand what you mean
in other news, im soooooooooo getting ithe 512. :lol: 8O
Edit: i bouth a 1 gig cf(which i will return in favour of the 512mb sd, cause my axim kinda sorta dosent have a cf slot, and neither does my camera) from costco for 67 dollars.
Edit Edit: oops, the cf is only 512mb.
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09-10-2004, 01:06 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 541
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Re: Pocket PC as a usb hard drive
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Originally Posted by OSUKid7
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Originally Posted by NeutrinoQ
Does anyone know if you can make a Dell Axim x5 or x30 work like a usb thumbdrive on a windows PC? In other words, is there any software out there that enable a pocket pc connected to a computer using a usb cable to show up as a physical or removable drive without the use of Activesync.
I would love to use the 1GB SD card in my Axim as well as use it as a portable drive to ferry files from home, school and work (like a usb drive, w/o the need for activesync)
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Nope, unfortunately you can't. This seems to be being asked a lot recently...maybe Microsoft will do something like that in time for Longhorn. |
No Longhorn needed - Palms have an app called Card Export which does exactly this, and shows up as a mass storage device. It's just a matter of software on the PPC.
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