Is 64gb truly enough? I had a I phone X with 64gb however I could never fill it up it was always somewhere around 25gb no matter how many pictures or apps I had. I currently have a 6T and it really doesn't seem to be the case on Android, I mean I have a few apps installed, barely any pictures and already hitting 30gb used storage. Really wanted the white pixel 3 xl in white at 128gb but right now it has a 5-6 weeks delay and thinking of settling for a 64gb instead.
I had an OG XL and my wife a small Pixel both with 32. The only time it would get close for them was if I had more than one TWRP backup saved. With the 3, she went with 64 and I went with 128 just because. I can't imagine using that much. I am sure 64 would have been fine. Keep in mind, I store almost no video (taken or D/L) on the phone. YMMV based on that.
When I was on the LG g6 with 32 gigs I was running out of memory and could not get anything to the SD card to save my life (or memory) but with this phone and all of the same apps loaded I am running about 32 gigs of apps installed and with my music downloades brings it up to 43 gigs I got the 128 gig version. I don't want to say I regret getting it as there is always more stuff I can put on my phone, but if there was a substantial difference in the prices between the 64 and 128 (more than there is now) then I would have gotten the 64 knowing what I know now.
For me, 64 has been totally fine. 128 is nice, but given no sd card, i never keep the same data on my phone forever, you get photo backup etc.
I contemplated for some time before purchasing mine. After using my Pixel 2 XL 128gb for a year i was well under half storage used when I sold it. As I tend to upgrade yearly this time I went with 64.
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Is 64gb truly enough? I had a I phone X with 64gb however I could never fill it up it was always somewhere around 25gb no matter how many pictures or apps I had. I currently have a 6T and it really doesn't seem to be the case on Android, I mean I have a few apps installed, barely any pictures and already hitting 30gb used storage. Really wanted the white pixel 3 xl in white at 128gb but right now it has a 5-6 weeks delay and thinking of settling for a 64gb instead.
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You could get the black 128 and get a white Dbrand skin and turn your 3 XL into a panda .
mac208x said:
Is 64gb truly enough? I had a I phone X with 64gb however I could never fill it up it was always somewhere around 25gb no matter how many pictures or apps I had. I currently have a 6T and it really doesn't seem to be the case on Android, I mean I have a few apps installed, barely any pictures and already hitting 30gb used storage. Really wanted the white pixel 3 xl in white at 128gb but right now it has a 5-6 weeks delay and thinking of settling for a 64gb instead.
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I think with the unlimited storage on google photos, it might be okay to have 64GB for the average person. I personally need AT LEAST 128GB because I love to take videos with my phone and I also have over 2500 songs that I put on it as well. Also, apparently google claims that google photos will back up your videos in full reso (1080p & 4k), but I've heard it actually saves it in 720p. So for me, keeping videos at full reso is very important and will most likely end up eating away at my storage the longer I have the phone.
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I generally buy tablets with at least 32 gb. I bought the iPad Air with 64 because I learned my lesson with the iPad 2 and filling it up.
When I went to Best Buy to pick up a Note 10.1 2014, they only had the 16 gb model. I could have waited, or picked it up somewhere else, but I wanted to take advantage of Best Buy's financing (18 months no interest) and I hate waiting for things.
After installing all of my apps and downloading the data for them, I have about 6 gb left. The problem is, I read a lot of comics. A typical comic in the Comixology app will run you about 100 mb or so. I delete many of them when I have read them, but I fall behind on my reading fairly regularly and accumulate quite a few. I also have a lot of articles in Pocket that I'm behind on and that takes about 600 mb.
Apps to SD is a myth on Samsung devices. I have confirmed that when you move an app to SD, it just moves it to a folder called "emulated" and really doesn't free up any space. Add to that that Pocket's "store cache on SD" feature isn't working and Comixology won't store comics on the external SD and I can basically only use the SD card slot for movies and music. So, I'm wodering: Will 16 (9) GB be enough? Or do I need to take this thing back and get the 32 gb model?
My real question is: How are those of you with the 16 gb model getting by? Is your internal space filled up? Are you wishing you had the bigger model?
Ive had other tabs that were 16g and as long as I was mindful of where I stored my books and photos I never ran inyo problems. I also make sure my email only syncs 5 days. With my work and personal accounts I get way to many. For reading I use Moonreader because unlike aldiko it doesn't force me to put my books on the device. Hope this helped
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Ive had other tabs that were 16g and as long as I was mindful of where I stored my books and photos I never ran inyo problems. I also make sure my email only syncs 5 days. With my work and personal accounts I get way to many. For reading I use Moonreader because unlike aldiko it doesn't force me to put my books on the device. Hope this helped
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I have had 16 GB tablets as well, but they generally have much more of that 16 gb available. All of the touchwiz and SPen features leave us with just over 8 GB on this thing. There's also the issue that, if we fill it up completely, it will hurt performance. So we really only have about 6-7 total out of the box.
I'm taking it back and getting the 32GB model. I love the tablet, but I need internal space.
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I generally buy tablets with at least 32 gb. I bought the iPad Air with 64 because I learned my lesson with the iPad 2 and filling it up.
When I went to Best Buy to pick up a Note 10.1 2014, they only had the 16 gb model. I could have waited, or picked it up somewhere else, but I wanted to take advantage of Best Buy's financing (18 months no interest) and I hate waiting for things.
After installing all of my apps and downloading the data for them, I have about 6 gb left. The problem is, I read a lot of comics. A typical comic in the Comixology app will run you about 100 mb or so. I delete many of them when I have read them, but I fall behind on my reading fairly regularly and accumulate quite a few. I also have a lot of articles in Pocket that I'm behind on and that takes about 600 mb.
Apps to SD is a myth on Samsung devices. I have confirmed that when you move an app to SD, it just moves it to a folder called "emulated" and really doesn't free up any space. Add to that that Pocket's "store cache on SD" feature isn't working and Comixology won't store comics on the external SD and I can basically only use the SD card slot for movies and music. So, I'm wodering: Will 16 (9) GB be enough? Or do I need to take this thing back and get the 32 gb model?
My real question is: How are those of you with the 16 gb model getting by? Is your internal space filled up? Are you wishing you had the bigger model?
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You can use Folder Mount to move programs to the SD Card too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount&hl=en
It works fine on the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition.
Same here thinking of selling my 16gb and get a 32gb. Games alone fills up storage fast. Having an sd car doesnt help either
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Just got a 16GB at Best Buy for the same reason as OP (wanted to use financing, didn't want to wait) - haven't done anything with it yet, but I'm getting more and more nervous that I'm going to run into trouble with the storage space - I expected to be able to move more onto an external SD card, but it sounds like that's not so workable after all?
If I root, I have more options, but I'm reluctant to do that if I don't have to... Anyone else have a similar conundrum?
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Just got a 16GB at Best Buy for the same reason as OP (wanted to use financing, didn't want to wait) - haven't done anything with it yet, but I'm getting more and more nervous that I'm going to run into trouble with the storage space - I expected to be able to move more onto an external SD card, but it sounds like that's not so workable after all?
If I root, I have more options, but I'm reluctant to do that if I don't have to... Anyone else have a similar conundrum?
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Not sure if this is an option for you, but I bought the 32 gb model from Newegg with my preferred account. 12 months no payment or interest. And no sales tax unless you live in CA. Taking the 16 back to Best Buy. Better too much space than not enough.
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I have had 16 GB tablets as well, but they generally have much more of that 16 gb available. All of the touchwiz and SPen features leave us with just over 8 GB on this thing. There's also the issue that, if we fill it up completely, it will hurt performance. So we really only have about 6-7 total out of the box.
I'm taking it back and getting the 32GB model. I love the tablet, but I need internal space.
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Really? I have over 11 free ... sm-p600. What version you running?
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Really? I have over 11 free ... sm-p600. What version you running?
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So you have the 16 GB and over 11 GB free? That I can live with, and it's about what I would have expected from the OS and bloatware... I can't decide if I want to try fot the 32 or just deal with the 15 (I'm not going to game with it, and movies/media I'd run off the SD card no matter what)...
I'm in a state of acute analysis paralysis! Someone decide for me...
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So you have the 16 GB and over 11 GB free? That I can live with, and it's about what I would have expected from the OS and bloatware... I can't decide if I want to try fot the 32 or just deal with the 15 (I'm not going to game with it, and movies/media I'd run off the SD card no matter what)...
I'm in a state of acute analysis paralysis! Someone decide for me...
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you'e kind of answered it yourself tbh...Gaming will take up the majority of the space of a tablet. Applications are normally around 20mb to a max of 100mb and some rare ones larger. Games on the other hand well the high graphic games anyways are over a 1GB so space would be an issue if you were to play loads of games.
honestly if you have no intentions of gaming 16GB would be plenty for you although if you could afford the 32GB then go for it since its always nice to have loads of space.
Ofcourse only you can really decide but I'm holiding out for a 32GB because I would like to have atleast a handful of 1GB games to keep me busy when I'm at the airport waiting for my flight or on the flight itself.
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I've been thinking of getting the 128 GB sand disk micro SD card. I'm one of those people that have too much media and can never decide on which is more important so I take everything with me. I've had a 64 GB card but I think a 128 would be better for me. I had my eyes on the sandik 30 Mb/s one but I've noticed they've released another one..
OLD http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B00IIJ6W4S
NEW http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Adapt..._sim_pc_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=02GXYJZC6GPX250649MH
I have two questions basically,
1. How come the old one is cheaper than the newer one, since the newer one is faster? Is it really faster or is that just branding?
2. Does it slow the device down a lot in general ? Like not just booting up?
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I've been thinking of getting the 128 GB sand disk micro SD card. I'm one of those people that have too much media and can never decide on which is more important so I take everything with me. I've had a 64 GB card but I think a 128 would be better for me. I had my eyes on the sandik 30 Mb/s one but I've noticed they've released another one..
OLD http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B00IIJ6W4S
NEW http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Adapt..._sim_pc_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=02GXYJZC6GPX250649MH
I have two questions basically,
1. How come the old one is cheaper than the newer one, since the newer one is faster? Is it really faster or is that just branding?
2. Does it slow the device down a lot in general ? Like not just booting up?
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Newer one is cheaper because it is being sold by amazon themselves, whereas the old one is being sold by some other company.
I don't know about slowing the device down. I have 64gb, but it definitely should not affect speed because booting is being done from internal memory. Also, all your apps will be on internal also, unless specifically installed on external.
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Newer one is cheaper because it is being sold by amazon themselves, whereas the old one is being sold by some other company.
I don't know about slowing the device down. I have 64gb, but it definitely should not affect speed because booting is being done from internal memory. Also, all your apps will be on internal also, unless specifically installed on external.
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I meant the time it would take to read the media on the card etc. Not the actually OS booting.
If you use a class 10, and only load your media on it(don't load apps), you should be fine and not experience any slowdowns.
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I've found that with a class 10 64gb card you definitely see lag when using the stock music app, that changed when I moved to rocket player. That's with around 50 GB of music, just trying to scroll through artists etc.
Has it been confirmed anywhere how much out of the box storage we will have with either the 32gb or 128gb Pixels? My 32 gb 6p had 25gb out of box. Im trying to find out of it will be less than 25gb since the Pixel will have the dual partitions for faster/background updates. I did manage to find a screenshot somebody took from the Android Police hands on demo and it shows 29gb available out of box. I will attach the screenshot. Im not sure if that will be same for the retail phones or if these are only demo phones so they might not take up as much space.
So there's 22gb's available, since 8gb of the 30 is already used up.
I got the 'quite dark, XL, 32GB'... I am wondering now if I should have upgraded to the 128 GB. Pictures/Video in the cloud will be great, but I am wondering how much space the VR apps will consume.
I have both 32 and 128 silver on preorder . Trying to figure out if 32 will be enough before cancelling one of them
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32GB is pretty lean for a device without an SD card. I don't need the room for pics or music anymore but although I swear this phone won't need rooted, if I DO go there, I'll need room for ROMs & backups.
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I got the 'quite dark, XL, 32GB'... I am wondering now if I should have upgraded to the 128 GB. Pictures/Video in the cloud will be great, but I am wondering how much space the VR apps will consume.
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On my s7 they're around 500mb to 1gb, definitely not small. You'll run out of space quickly.
32gb on devices is not enough nowadays..todays standard is 64gb and up
I'm very worried with my 32gb not being enough. I needed the 5.5 inch screen but I don't know if the storage is more of a factor
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I think it's more than enough if you take advantage of the 'Free Unlimited Google Photo's Backup' feature
From what I've heard/seen, it doesn't seem to be much different than the 6P, so hopefully it's the same. I personally don't mind as I still have 14GB free on my 6P. I don't use VR apps or games, so most of the space is for apps, pictures/videos, music.
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Would like to know 32gb free space?
pro4ever said:
Would like to know 32gb free space?
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Total storage on UK model is 29.7Gb minus 5.39Gb for the system so you will have 24.31Gb to play with. I've attached a Screenshot of mine. Xl model BTW if that makes any difference.
I have note 5 64 GB. I have few games yet I don't really play them so I can do without them. I have a lot of music on it cuz you know that's why I bought 64gb phone. I don't shoot a lot of 4k vdos. I do take a lot of pics. Back them up on Google photos important ones on PC.
And now I have 30 GB free. Do you think without few games and lesser music I can live with 32gb phone? Looking to get pixel xl 32gb...
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Having the same dialema coming from LG G4 with 32gb on board and 32gb as card.
that is totally for you to answer.
I bought the 32gb XL. I came from a 64gb N6 and used around 26.5gb on that phone. But alot of it was pictures for me and since I use Google Photos for my backup, they didn't transfer to my new phone.
So my advice for you is to look at how much space your pictures take up and subtract that from how much you're using now.
BTW, the 32gb has 29.70gb available storage.
Hi everyone! I'm hoping you all can help me out. I'm contemplating purchasing a Note9 with 8GB or RAM. It costs $250 more than the 6GB RAM option though (granted it also quadruples your internal storage amount).
After this debate happened with the OnePlus 5T, many people said it would be better long-term to have the 8GB, but it wasn't necessary. Has there been any consensus reached, 1 year later, on whether the 8GB of RAM truly makes any difference in performance for users of the phone? I don't need more storage on the Note (although it would be cool), so I'm really thinking mostly about upgrading for RAM/future-proofing.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance!
I had the op3 with 6 GB Ram for 1.5 years. Now the 5t with 8 GB but they are NEVER full and usually I have 2-3 GB Ram free. 6 GB are certainly more than enough. Maybe in 2 or 3 years 8 COULD be better or faster but I think after 3 years you can also buy something new if you need top notch performance.
I've got the 5T with 8GB. Never seen 6GB used much less 8. In retrospect I should have gotten the model with 6 and saved my money. I figure by the time we need 8 the phone will be well past due for replacement.
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I had the op3 with 6 GB Ram for 1.5 years. Now the 5t with 8 GB but they are NEVER full and usually I have 2-3 GB Ram free. 6 GB are certainly more than enough. Maybe in 2 or 3 years 8 COULD be better or faster but I think after 3 years you can also buy something new if you need top notch performance.
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I've got the 5T with 8GB. Never seen 6GB used much less 8. In retrospect I should have gotten the model with 6 and saved my money. I figure by the time we need 8 the phone will be well past due for replacement.
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Thank you both! This helps a lot.
It's not necessary but 8gb option has 128 gb memory.And there is no sd card slot
Could be helpful on resale....
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It's not necessary but 8gb option has 128 gb memory.And there is no sd card slot
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Yeah, my situation is quite different. It's 128GB/6GB or 512GB/8GB. I definitely do not need 512GB of storage (and I have a 256GB SD card anyway), so it's really all about the RAM in my case.
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Yeah, my situation is quite different. It's 128GB/6GB or 512GB/8GB. I definitely do not need 512GB of storage (and I have a 256GB SD card anyway), so it's really all about the RAM in my case.
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My upgrade was more dramatic. I went from the N6 32Gb w/ 3gb ram to the OP5T 128gb w/ 8gb ram. I mostly game on my phones. I never maxed out my 3gb on the N6. IMO, Save your money and get the 6gb option. The tech will advance fast enough to warrant the new 8gb standard in a few years.