Thread: Store Apps on Internal SD Card?
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2007-09-08 , 18:37
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Originally Posted by cwichura View Post
When you expand swap to the card, you have the potential to use up those write cycles a LOT faster. You only need to expand swap really if you are using apps that result in exceeding the 128MB of internal RAM that the N800 has. With a 'stock' install, I doubt that will be an issue. If you start loading lots of third-party apps on it, though, then you might be more in need of additional swap space.
Well, you'd only need additional swap space if you're trying to run a lot of apps at once. If they're on your device but you're not running them, they're not taking up RAM.

Until recently, most people seemed to use the included 128MB miniSD card for swap and put their larger cards in the external slot. The latest firmware, however, has some card support bugs, especially with SDHC cards. Sometimes larger capacity cards only work reliably in the internal slot, or get damaged when the swap file is used. If you have the latest firmware, just be careful. If you don't have the latest firmware, then you're probably OK, but you probably don't have support for >2GB cards. If the extra features of the new firmware don't interest you, you may want to wait for the next release.