iPod touch How close to full can I go

[bogart]

I have an 8G Touch - is it safe to use all but say 200M of that for data (music, photos, apps (with some data) etc. ) ?
Does it use any scratch space on the disk ?

Come to that, how much non-disk memory does it have or use ?
I realise its all flash memory but it must be logically organised some way into ram and disk. How does that work ?

andy/Humphrey

 

[seamustry]

i would say it's safe to fill it up as all the essential files are already loaded in the memory.

 

[Chandler Adaway]

You can use it. But if you have Applications that need to save and stuff, I would just leave a little open.

If you noticed when you first got it, you might realize that it really has like 7.2GB's of space or whatever left.
That's because of the OS, etc.

 

[duncyboy]

You can fill it as full as you want- it's Flash memory. There's no paging file or overhead room needed- all the iPod OS files are already on there and secure and the 1st Gen Touch had 128MB DRAM for RAM- not sure if the 2G has the same amount or more.

EDIT- good point above about room for any apps that have save data though.

 

[nick4597]

I have an 8G Touch - is it safe to use all but say 200M of that for data (music, photos, apps (with some data) etc. ) ?
Does it use any scratch space on the disk ?

Come to that, how much non-disk memory does it have or use ?
I realise its all flash memory but it must be logically organised some way into ram and disk. How does that work ?

andy/Humphrey

I've filled a Nano up to the point where I had 22kb left.