<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Travis,<div><br><div><div>Am 23.04.2012 um 01:39 schrieb Travis Bachelder:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000099"><font size="1"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">What if you(I) wanted more than 32 gb? The largest micro SD (NOW) is 64 gbs right? What if you needed larger than that? 250 gb or even 500 gb?<br></font></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div>The original SD cards were up to 2 GB</div><div>The SDHC cards are up to 32 GB</div><div>and the newest SDXC cards are much more (I think they can go to the Terabytes range)</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000099"><font size="1"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>Is larger drive space in the GTA04 just a matter of waiting for the micro SD card technology to support larger storage space? <br></font></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div>There are two limitations. One is the interface. The current GTA04 supports SD and SDHC, but not SDXC.</div><div>So the current limit is 32 GBytes. But future variants of the TI OMAP processor may support the SDXC</div><div>interface. This is just a small change within the Silicon and some additional driver. So you can expect that</div><div>to come sooner or later.</div><div><br></div><div>The other limit is the availability and price of such SDXC cards. But I have seen some with 128 GByte:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-SDXC-Flash-Memory-LSD128CRBNA133/dp/B004SAMZW4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1335167722&sr=8-5">http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-SDXC-Flash-Memory-LSD128CRBNA133/dp/B004SAMZW4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1335167722&sr=8-5</a></div><div><br></div><div>But as said it will not work in a GTA04. And the one linked here is a SD and not microSD format. I.e. it does not fit</div><div>mechanically. But you can extrapolate what the SD card manufacturers will come up with.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000099"><font size="1"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">
If the micro SD is limited on it's storage space, then is the GTA04 board even capable of supporting a built in external hard drive? Or is that make for a serious design change?<br></font></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mechanical hard drives are generally too big. The smallest one I know of was the IBM/Hitachi Microdrive in Compact-Flash format.</div><div>I think currently, the smallest ones are 1.8 inch diameter. This does not fit into the case of a smartphone...</div><div><br></div><div>Here: <a href="http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Toshiba-MK2x39GSL/">http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Toshiba-MK2x39GSL/</a> you can see the physical dimensions.</div><div><br></div><div>And the interfaces of such drives (e.g. SATA) are not available on the OMAP processor. So they may need additional glue logic.</div><div><br></div><div>What you also could do is to connect an external hard drive through the USB/OTG port. But that would no longer allow you to use the same USB port to connect to a desktop PC as you have planned.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000099"><font size="1"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font></font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,153);font-family:verdana,sans-serif" size="1">Thanks,<br>
Travis Bachelder<br></font></blockquote><div><br></div>BR,</div><div>Nikolaus</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,153);font-family:verdana,sans-serif" size="1"><br><br></font><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
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Cc: <br>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:36:32 +0200<br>Subject: Re: GTA04_This is my Fantasy<br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Travis,<div><br></div><div><div><div>Am 22.04.2012 um 15:09 schrieb Travis Bachelder:</div><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Thanks for you input Lionel,<br>Actually: What I am thinking isn't remote. More like having the operating system installed onto the GTA04 (outfitted with a larger hardrive of course). Plug the phone into a computer (via usb perhaps?) then restart computer to boot from the OS installed onto you slick 60 gb GTA04.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>yes you should be able do that. Just configure the USB gadget driver of the GTA04 so</div><div>that the GTA04 behaves like an external SD card reader and provides access</div>
<div>through the USB cable. Then, you plug in the USB cable to the host machine</div><div>and boot...</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<br>This seems possible, the only hurdle I see is the hardware, what would it take to outfit a GTA04 phone with a larger hardrive? <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>There is no need for a built-in harddrive. Just a 32 GByte Micro-SD card.</div>
<div>And in some future the OMAP CPUs will even support >32 GByte.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>Thanks,<br>Travis<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>
<br></div>Nikolaus</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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