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> Removable storage is pointless since they would likely not to support a filesystem which can be easily mounted on any computer (windows/linux/osx) and support

by m45t3r 10y ago

> Removable storage is pointless since they would likely not to support a filesystem which can be easily mounted on any computer (windows/linux/osx) and support files of 4GB or greater in size. http://www.howtogeek.com/262630/how-to-work-with-external-drives-on-a-chromebook/ http://www.howtogeek.com/262630/how-to-work-with-external-dr... Both exFAT and NTFS supports files bigger than 4GB. > my downloaded spotify songs alone would fill A 32GB device. You just invalided your argument, no single music gets to more than 4GB. > 32GB eMMC is also very slow because of how the storage channel works, so sorry there is no excuse with having so little storage. You keep giving examples with media. eMMC is fast enough for media playback. It is not ideal for, say, random file access, however it is getting better. > Also SD cards are slow, die fairly quickly, can easily get lost, and buying 256GB of storage in microSDXC Class 10 cards from a reliable source (as in definitely not fake) costs about as much as the difference between an iPad/iPhone with a 32GB and 256GB here in the UK. Good for you. Here in Brazil an iPhone 7 256GB is twice as expensive than the base 32GB model. FYI, this is a R$2000 difference, while a good, professional grade 256GB SD card is half of this price. And btw, you're assuming that you need to buy one SD card to put everything on it. You could buy multiple smaller SD cards (say 32GB or 64GB cards), that are very fast and high quality and get much more storage than one unique 256GB SD card (that are expensive since they're pushing the quantity of flash that you can put in a small space like microSD). Smaller cards have much better price per GB.

dogma1138 10y ago
NTFS and exFAT are useless since Android can't mount SD cards that are formatted with those properly. You may be able to hack the OS to read from them but then they can't be mounted for general purpose use. If you are running Android 6.0 you can mount the SD card as internal storage if you format it in EXT4 and encrypt it which also locks the SD card to your that phone and you can't swap it in and out since it will break apps and as it's encrypted you can't transfer files to it manually. >You just invalided your argument, no single music gets to more than 4GB. What? it's not about a single music file getting bigger than 4GB it's about the 3000 music files that Spotify allows me to download reach considerably more than that when you download them on higher quality. >You keep giving examples with media. eMMC is fast enough for media playback. It is not ideal for, say, random file access, however it is getting better. You should really look at storage benchmarks and see just how "well" the 7 plus does "raw" photos on the 32GB model, especially in rapid mode. >> Also SD cards are slow, die fairly quickly, can easily get lost, and buying 256GB of storage in microSDXC Class 10 cards from a reliable source (as in definitely not fake) costs about as much as the difference between an iPad/iPhone with a 32GB and 256GB here in the UK. Good for you. Here in Brazil an iPhone 7 256GB is twice as expensive than the base 32GB model. FYI, this is a R$2000 difference, while a good, professional grade 256GB SD card is half of this price. And btw, you're assuming that you need to buy one SD card to put everything on it. You could buy multiple smaller SD cards (say 32GB or 64GB cards), that are very fast and high quality and get much more storage than one unique 256GB SD card (that are expensive since they're pushing the quantity of flash that you can put in a small space like microSD). Smaller cards have much better price per GB. >Good for you. Here in Brazil an iPhone 7 256GB is twice as expensive than the base 32GB model. FYI, this is a R$2000 difference, while a good, professional grade 256GB SD card is half of this price. And? how does offering a 256 model affects you? In the UK buying 4 64GB cards not of Amazon where even the Amazon fulfilled orders are at best only about 50% chance of getting an authentic card if you are ordering a decent brand will cost you about 150-160 GBP since Currys/JL etc sell them for about 40 GBP, an iPhone 7/7p costs 180 GBP more for the 256GB model.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > NTFS and exFAT are useless since Android can't mount SD cards that are formatted with those properly. That might be relevant if this was an Android device and not a ChromeOS device that can also run Android apps.
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    ChromeOS is also locked ;) Android apps on it are even more restricted.

by m45t3r 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago

NTFS and exFAT are useless since Android can't mount SD cards that are formatted with those properly. You may be able to hack the OS to read from them but then they can't be mounted for general purpose use. If you are running Android 6.0 you can mount the SD card as internal storage if you format it in EXT4 and encrypt it which also locks the SD card to your that phone and you can't swap it in and out since it will break apps and as it's encrypted you can't transfer files to it manually. >You just invalided your argument, no single music gets to more than 4GB. What? it's not about a single music file getting bigger than 4GB it's about the 3000 music files that Spotify allows me to download reach considerably more than that when you download them on higher quality. >You keep giving examples with media. eMMC is fast enough for media playback. It is not ideal for, say, random file access, however it is getting better. You should really look at storage benchmarks and see just how "well" the 7 plus does "raw" photos on the 32GB model, especially in rapid mode. >> Also SD cards are slow, die fairly quickly, can easily get lost, and buying 256GB of storage in microSDXC Class 10 cards from a reliable source (as in definitely not fake) costs about as much as the difference between an iPad/iPhone with a 32GB and 256GB here in the UK. Good for you. Here in Brazil an iPhone 7 256GB is twice as expensive than the base 32GB model. FYI, this is a R$2000 difference, while a good, professional grade 256GB SD card is half of this price. And btw, you're assuming that you need to buy one SD card to put everything on it. You could buy multiple smaller SD cards (say 32GB or 64GB cards), that are very fast and high quality and get much more storage than one unique 256GB SD card (that are expensive since they're pushing the quantity of flash that you can put in a small space like microSD). Smaller cards have much better price per GB. >Good for you. Here in Brazil an iPhone 7 256GB is twice as expensive than the base 32GB model. FYI, this is a R$2000 difference, while a good, professional grade 256GB SD card is half of this price. And? how does offering a 256 model affects you? In the UK buying 4 64GB cards not of Amazon where even the Amazon fulfilled orders are at best only about 50% chance of getting an authentic card if you are ordering a decent brand will cost you about 150-160 GBP since Currys/JL etc sell them for about 40 GBP, an iPhone 7/7p costs 180 GBP more for the 256GB model.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> NTFS and exFAT are useless since Android can't mount SD cards that are formatted with those properly. That might be relevant if this was an Android device and not a ChromeOS device that can also run Android apps.
- dogma1138 10y ago
  ChromeOS is also locked ;) Android apps on it are even more restricted.