sd card or usb stick

Hi,

I need a 8gb or 16gb memory stick, can anyone advise, as to which is the fastest, a usb pendrive of 8 gb or a 8gb sdhc memory card. will the aspire one read sdhc cards, and how do i read it in my pc. i will be using it mainly for copying across data from my desktop pc. may use it for playing dvd's if successful.....?

THanks ALun

 

USB is generally a little slower than SDHC, assuming you get a good SDHC; the AAO is fine with SDHC cards. How you use an SDHC in your main PC is going to depend on your PC; if you look on Amazon, some SDHC cvards coime with a USB device to connect them to a PC which doesn't already have a suitable reader.

You haven't said which OS you are using; I've used Kaffeine under Linux to play a DVD .iso file from an SDHC card. I don't know how Windows players would cope with it.

The other advantage of an SDHC card over a USB stick is that it's physically smaller and almost disappears within the SDHC slot - whereas a pen drive tends to stick out of the side of the AAO and would more easily catch on things if you moved the machine during playback.

 

The only thing I would add to what daldred said is the AAO only has 3 USB ports, so if you have a USB mouse, an MP3 player and a CD/DVD burner plugged in, then you won't have any more ports left for a USB flash drive. Some cell phones use a micro-SD card, which would make it possible to transfer files to/from your One with an adapter. While the micro-SD cards are a bit more expensive, the regular SDHC cards cost about the same per GB as a USB stick.

 

thanks

thanks for that, will invest in a decent sdhc card then and a usb reader for my pc. I am using windows, b.t.w.

i could not get on with linpus so put ron's tiny xp on and i must say it is running great. as for movies, at the moment i am trying vlc to play iso mounted images using daemon tool and seems to work o.k across my newtork and on my desktop. i am having problems though copying a 4.3gb file across my network wirelessly tho so this is why i need to get a card.

Any ideas why my aspir is saying not enough room on hard disk to copy a 4.3gb file across network ?

I have 160gb hard disk and showing as 145gb free...

will try connecting to lan and doing it

Weird one !!!!


Cheers Al

 

Is your hard drive formatted as FAT32 or NTFS? FAT has a file size limit of just under 4GB. And SD and USB drives are also generally formatted in FAT, though you should be able to reformat them as NTFS without too much trouble.

 

formatted as fat 32 is that o.k. ?

Alun

 

It's OK for smaller files, but your 4.3GB file that you want to transfer is too large for FAT32, so you won't be able to put it on your C: drive. You may be able to use a disk utility to shrink the drive and use the free space to create a 2nd drive that you can format as NTFS, then your 4.3 file should work nicely. But back up everything first, as shrinking a drive can sometimes toast it.

 

Targus makes an adapter that allows you to use SD and SDHC cards as USB devices by plugging the SD/SDHC card into the Targus adapter and then plugging the adapter into a USB port. You can get one of these at Wal-mart for about $8.00. this gives you the best of both worlds.

 

instead of shrinking the drive's partition and creating a new one, he could've easily convert the fat32 partition to ntfs with a simple command line text.

 

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instead of shrinking the drive's partition and creating a new one, he could've easily convert the fat32 partition to ntfs with a simple command line text.

Can you do that without erasing everything on the drive? I assumed that was the C: drive.

 

hi
i have ghosted an image of my current tiny xp setup, but need to creat a boot usb disk that will allow me to create a ntfs partition.

Any ideas on what to use ?

Alun

 

If you copy the Ghost image back it will still be FAT32.

Use the "convert" utility supplied by Microsoft instead to convert the FAT32 partition to NTFS "in place".

See here for more details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

 

Just to add, Poundland(UK) sell a USB2.0 adapter for SD/MMC cards. It's a really cheap way to check everything works, and then you have the option to invest in an internal reader later on.