does a high-speed card really matter?

[ipaq_wannabe]

i dont remember when, or from where; but it would seem that a high-speed is practically irrelevant (spelling??) to a PPC. be it a standard card, or maybe a card with speeds of about 20mb/sec - it really does not matter, because as i remember, the interface of the PPC to this cards are not enough to handle the “rush”

but i was also thinking that if we have higher-speed cards, then running programs from these cards would be much faster?

am i right to assume this? am i right to think in this way?

- (at) Axim x50v

[jpf]

high speed cards are only of much use if you need to save fast, i.e. fast frame digital cameras.
For reading the data I'm not even sure the 'high speed' bit still applies. If it does then it might be useful for say a fast dictionary search but I don't think you'll see a discernable improvement on application launch times.

[Menneisyys]

i dont remember when, or from where; but it would seem that a high-speed is practically irrelevant (spelling??) to a PPC. be it a standard card, or maybe a card with speeds of about 20mb/sec - it really does not matter, because as i remember, the interface of the PPC to this cards are not enough to handle the “rush”

but i was also thinking that if we have higher-speed cards, then running programs from these cards would be much faster?

am i right to assume this? am i right to think in this way?

- (at) Axim x50v

Plain trhoughput (in kbytes/s) doesn't really matter in a PDA because current PDA's have serious bottlenecks which makes it impossible to reach transfer speeds larger than around 2 Mbytes/s.

The only difference between cards can be in file creation speed. It's very important if you want to, say, relocate the PIE or the Netfront cache on your cards. In general, it can be stated that high-end cards create files faster, but this can't be stated for sure. Please see for example http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36376 on this subject.

[ipaq_wannabe]

i dont remember when, or from where; but it would seem that a high-speed is practically irrelevant (spelling??) to a PPC. be it a standard card, or maybe a card with speeds of about 20mb/sec - it really does not matter, because as i remember, the interface of the PPC to this cards are not enough to handle the “rush”

but i was also thinking that if we have higher-speed cards, then running programs from these cards would be much faster?

am i right to assume this? am i right to think in this way?

- (at) Axim x50v

Plain trhoughput (in kbytes/s) doesn't really matter in a PDA because current PDA's have serious bottlenecks which makes it impossible to reach transfer speeds larger than around 2 Mbytes/s.

The only difference between cards can be in file creation speed. It's very important if you want to, say, relocate the PIE or the Netfront cache on your cards. In general, it can be stated that high-end cards create files faster, but this can't be stated for sure. Please see for example http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36376 on this subject.

im reading through the link that youve posted - quite informative...

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anyway, based on your replies, i guess i dont need to buy that 20MB/s High-Speed SD card, then... which would set me back by around US$150-something

[Menneisyys]

i dont remember when, or from where; but it would seem that a high-speed is practically irrelevant (spelling??) to a PPC. be it a standard card, or maybe a card with speeds of about 20mb/sec - it really does not matter, because as i remember, the interface of the PPC to this cards are not enough to handle the “rush”

but i was also thinking that if we have higher-speed cards, then running programs from these cards would be much faster?

am i right to assume this? am i right to think in this way?

- (at) Axim x50v

Plain trhoughput (in kbytes/s) doesn't really matter in a PDA because current PDA's have serious bottlenecks which makes it impossible to reach transfer speeds larger than around 2 Mbytes/s.

The only difference between cards can be in file creation speed. It's very important if you want to, say, relocate the PIE or the Netfront cache on your cards. In general, it can be stated that high-end cards create files faster, but this can't be stated for sure. Please see for example http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36376 on this subject.

im reading through the link that youve posted - quite informative...

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anyway, based on your replies, i guess i dont need to buy that 20MB/s High-Speed SD card, then... which would set me back by around US$150-something


Nope, unless you also want to use it in a high-speed device (for example, a non-entry level digicam). See for example http://pocketpcmag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15777 on this subject.