16GB isn't adequate for the work I've done on them. Genome assembly ( an O(n^2k^2) process ) generally has 100GB of data, each segment of which needs to be compared against each other segment ( O(n^2) ), and when comparing two segments each datum needs to be compared to each other datum ( O(k^2) ).
So while you can just transfer 4GB of data to the card at a time, it really doesn't cut it.
So while you can just transfer 4GB of data to the card at a time, it really doesn't cut it.