I’ve just upgraded (doubled) the storage capacity of the SD Card in my phone. It was a simple task which took a long time. It took a long time because I had to copy all the content from the old SD Card (128Gb capacity – and yes, it was full) onto the NAS. Then pop the old SD Card out, insert the new one, and copy everything onto the new SD Card.
In the great scheme of things, 128Gb isn’t a massive amount of data, but the processing power of my phone was taxed to the maximum by having to push all those files off, through the laptop connection, and onto the NAS.
The trip from the NAS onto the new SD Card was a lot quicker, obviously. And now my phone’s storage capacity has been doubled. It was a lovely little exercise in data migration. There may have been a simpler way to get the job done, but as well as using the robustness of the NAS, I took the opportunity to create a duplicate bank of data on the NAS at the same time. Just in case the SD Card should suffer any future damage.
That’s a lot of data for a phone… what the hell have you got on there, I wonder.
Either way, you’re right to back it up.
My phone has a 4Gb card in it. It’s been in there for over three years, from new, and it still has over half of it’s capacity available.
Should last me a few more years.
It’s mostly audio – tracks which are unavailable on streaming services, music by some of the world’s finest unsigned band – and some underground tracks which have never been released.