Mixing the sd card with windows and android

[Zoenphlux]

How does the SD card work in Android? I purchased a 128 gigabyte card that I plan to merge into windows using the disk manager. You can basically “mount” the card as a folder on the c drive rather than give it a drive letter, but only if you never plan to remove it. I just didn’t know how that would work with android..

I also am interested if anybody has tested the speed on the card reader to make sure it supports 70-90mb reads on cards that support it..

[Bill Christiansen]

I’m currently using a smaller 16GB card which automatically mounts and works in both Windows and Android. I did try a 128GB card that worked in Windows but not Android. I think the issue is Android is only configured to read fat32 on sdcard with limit of 32GB whereas Windows can use fat32 / exFat / NTFS.

[Don]

Get a 128 GB  USB 3.0   flash drive ,much faster.

 

 

[Zoenphlux]

The problem is that I didn’t want to tie up a USB port all the time.  It’s a little bulky(even the nano sticks out some), and if I have to use a usb wifi dongle due to sharing the antenna I wouldn’t have anything left.  The USB 3 will be much faster, but I will sacrifice a few seconds loading to keep the functionality.  I am thinking I will partition the SD card and give Android an extra 20GB or so to install games and vudu movies.  I don’t like the windows vudu app. Horrible.  Keeps messing up and losing my downloaded movies on the netbooks I have.

 

[Don]

If you get the keyboard you will have a total of 4 usb ports.

 

[Jirka Toksa]

I dont’t want to have a flashdrive permanently in tablet!

It’s a mobile device, not a desktop!

So what’s the solution?

I plan to buy as big and as fast card the tablet can manage and utilize!

Something like Kingston Micro SDXC 128GB UHS-I U3

Or is any better/faster/bigger (and supported by the tablet) card recommended?

And yes, I woluld like to dedicate most of it (cca 100GB) to Windows and some of it to Android (the rest).

So is there a way how to manage it? How?

Thanx!

PS: Does it have any meaning to use a part of the card for ReadyBoost, Swapfile, etc?

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