I was recently asked which SD card I use. Everyone has their own opinion so there will probably be links below this for different brands or even cheaper prices. I personally use newegg because I have never had a problem and I've made over 100 orders from them.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208461
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208463
Yup, just made a huge order from newegg and should be getting a Class 6 16GB card soon .. time to put my Class 2 8GB to rest
Class 6 with ECC will work fine with FAT32/Ext/Linux-swap? Or should I get one without ECC?
i will buy the class 6 right now
is there anyway to get all of my apps from my old one to my new one?
roguestatuskat said:
i will buy the class 6 right now
is there anyway to get all of my apps from my old one to my new one?
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GET APPS
adb pull /system/sd/ %CD%\sdbackup
PUT APPS BACK ON
adb push %CD%\sdbackup /system/sd
since you are running hero delete the app_s folder from the sdbackup on your computer it will install itself at start up
xidominicanoix said:
Yup, just made a huge order from newegg and should be getting a Class 6 16GB card soon .. time to put my Class 2 8GB to rest
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what is the difference is the sd card class may you please PM me because i am not sure i will b back on this thread
ECC = ?
and whats the differences between with\without that?
thanks
Barina said:
ECC = ?
and whats the differences between with\without that?
thanks
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Memory for PC,s ECC = Error Correction Control
I would assume it is the same for SDcards ?
I only have my phone a few weeks, so pretty new to this stuff, but I did buy a 8GB (class 6) SanDisk.
Related
i'm interested in the two following cards that i found on e-bay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/TOPRAM-16GB-16G...C_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item4cec018066
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-EDGE-Tech-1...gital_Camera_Memory_Cards?hash=item5d26f2c39e
did anyone maybe bought the and tried them?
I never heard about those manufacturers before so I'm interested in the quality.
Micro SDHC Card.
Hi !
I have been testing a lot of different cards, and my recommendation is this
Transcend Micro SDHC 16 GB Class 6
And it has lifetime Warranty!
With kindly regards MacRoy
MacRoy, thanks for your post
I know tha Transcend and San disk are the leaders in this field but i'm interested in the above mentioned cards because they are the cheapest i could find on e-bay.
I would like to know if anyone has actually used them so they can tell me what is their quality?
MacRoy said:
Hi !
I have been testing a lot of different cards, and my recommendation is this
Transcend Micro SDHC 16 GB Class 6
And it has lifetime Warranty!
With kindly regards MacRoy
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Just purchased this one myself, waiting for it to be delivered. An 8 GB Class 6 Transcend card came with the purchase of my HD and it's been the best card I've owned so it was an easy choice for me. I wouldn't go cheap on something like this personally, you get what you pay for.
I bought the 16gb class 6 earlier today because my 16gb class 2 is starting to give me and my computer MAJOR problems. Up until now, the card has worked like a dream. I can't wait to see how much faster the class 6 will be like
i bought this card a few days ago
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250561131115&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
waiting it to come...
i'm hoping it's gonna be delivered in a 2 weeks period so i'll give my opinion then on the card speed
the card has arrived....
by putting it in my PC the higgest speed I got was 5,2 Mb per second
I would like to make some more test so if anyone can give me some tool for testing the actual speed of the card I will report back with the results...
in the words of Jerry Maguire: ''Help Me Help you''
qtype said:
the card has arrived....
by putting it in my PC the higgest speed I got was 5,2 Mb per second
I would like to make some more test so if anyone can give me some tool for testing the actual speed of the card I will report back with the results...
in the words of Jerry Maguire: ''Help Me Help you''
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Try fdbench
Google translate LINK
cool_dhamz said:
Try fdbench
Google translate LINK
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thanks for the link
I have attached the screenshots of the results...
I have taken 100MB and 1MB in the settings. If that was not ok, please tell me what to put and I'll make the test again...
by this I screenshot I would say that the card is 6MB or am I wrong?
hello,
I bought the "Transcend Micro SDHC 16 GB Class 6" and since I can't flash any ROM, I formatted the card several times (FAT32) but to no avail,
you see the same thing?
Also this card is not compatible if you want to switch on Android.
regards
bebe38 said:
hello,
I bought the "Transcend Micro SDHC 16 GB Class 6" and since I can't flash any ROM, I formatted the card several times (FAT32) but to no avail,
you see the same thing?
Also this card is not compatible if you want to switch on Android.
regards
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my card is not transcend but I didn't formatted it when i got it... i just made a restore to defaults and once again installed all of my programs on it.. did you try that?
maybe you should format it with NTFS instead of FAT32?
but i don't understand why you said that you can't flash any ROM? did you try doing that already?
Looks good. Did you try copying 16GB worth of data onto it ? Some of these cards could be fakes and have lower capacity than stated.
qtype said:
the card has arrived....
by putting it in my PC the higgest speed I got was 5,2 Mb per second
I would like to make some more test so if anyone can give me some tool for testing the actual speed of the card I will report back with the results...
in the words of Jerry Maguire: ''Help Me Help you''
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by now i have 13,1 GB of data on the card... still haven't filled it to the end
in the SD properties on the phone it says 15185.50 MB of storage availabe... i suppose that that is 16 GB...
I know youre all speed freaks - and youre talking about the class 6 cards...
But i just ordered this one (16GB, Class2, ~22$) (urgh - china product... - i never trust those *g* - but the price is just half of all i've seen before)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270528336681
as the 8GB delivered with the HD also just was Class 2 i thought thats enough for me...
And it's just a third of the price for the class 6 cards youre talking about.
Actual my question is - what do we need class 6 for?
Don't missunderstand me - I don't want to flame anyone for buying class 6 - but in my case about 7 of 8 GB are static on the card (means i transfered it once to the card and it never changes - Music) and 1 GB is dynamic (new Progs and new Music,...) but even this doesn't change every day all at once but about 20mb every day (max).
So with class 6 we save some time on the first copy progress - agree.
And every day about 10 seconds.
I know the example above is just for me but I think it would fit for most of u *g*
So why all people are so keen on this class 6 ? (i ofter read about in this forum not just in HD section)
btw. the tested speeds of those cards - most are tested in external readers are they? Does our HD even reach them in USB mode? or even worse - in ActiveSync mode? Cause i don't take my card out every day to copy some files...
greetings
Edit: k some people might watch videos on their HD every day which could take a while to sync - but USB and ActiveSync quests are still out...
forgot the video thing - cause i just once watched a video on my HD half -> battery life is not made for in my opinion
FrEcP said:
I know youre all speed freaks - and youre talking about the class 6 cards...
But i just ordered this one (16GB, Class2, ~22$) (urgh - china product... - i never trust those *g* - but the price is just half of all i've seen before)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270528336681
as the 8GB delivered with the HD also just was Class 2 i thought thats enough for me...
And it's just a third of the price for the class 6 cards youre talking about.
Actual my question is - what do we need class 6 for?
Don't missunderstand me - I don't want to flame anyone for buying class 6 - but in my case about 7 of 8 GB are static on the card (means i transfered it once to the card and it never changes - Music) and 1 GB is dynamic (new Progs and new Music,...) but even this doesn't change every day all at once but about 20mb every day (max).
So with class 6 we save some time on the first copy progress - agree.
And every day about 10 seconds.
I know the example above is just for me but I think it would fit for most of u *g*
So why all people are so keen on this class 6 ? (i ofter read about in this forum not just in HD section)
btw. the tested speeds of those cards - most are tested in external readers are they? Does our HD even reach them in USB mode? or even worse - in ActiveSync mode? Cause i don't take my card out every day to copy some files...
greetings
Edit: k some people might watch videos on their HD every day which could take a while to sync - but USB and ActiveSync quests are still out...
forgot the video thing - cause i just once watched a video on my HD half -> battery life is not made for in my opinion
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it all depends on what do you need it for...
for me class 6 saves me a lot of time because i download approximately 10-20 GB of music a month, and somwhere about 20 GB of movies and tv shows...
so basically i transfer somewhere around 1-4 GB a day from my PC to my card...
true, if you're doing that through the USB or ActiveSync you probably won't see the difference, but i often don't have the time to do that so I use the microSD adapter and transfer it a lot quicker to my sd card than it would be done through the USB or ActiveSync
on the end it all depends on what you're looking for and for what price...
Class 6
From what I see, don't bother with class 6 16G. I bought one. Testing the speed on sd card is great but once it put it on HD, it's no different than my Class 2 8G. Could have just purchase a Class 2 16G.
FrEcP said:
I know youre all speed freaks - and youre talking about the class 6 cards...
But i just ordered this one (16GB, Class2, ~22$) (urgh - china product... - i never trust those *g* - but the price is just half of all i've seen before)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270528336681
as the 8GB delivered with the HD also just was Class 2 i thought thats enough for me...
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Hi,
I just got an email from ebay asking me not to finalize this order because of problem with the seller.
It seems that this is a scam.
Be careful.
Bemi
the question is not "what is the fastest class 4/6 card" in my eyes.
I bought the HD with the standart 8GB.....class "dont-know"...
of course I thought following:
higher class,bigger card = more expensive than slow and small...
so I tried to find out which card is included....
I found NO information about it. there is nothing to find on the HTC site.
no seriuos information to find on forums...
and nothing "written" on the card itselfe.
so I thought about buying the best and fastet card (testet with real test equipment).....
BUT
because the card-speed is degraded by the hardware you try to read/write....
and there is not a single information to find about what a HTC HD can handle....
(I asked the HTC support and did not get an answer at all)...
I decided to DONT buy another card at all....
I see no advantage to buy the fastes card it the cellphone is not able to use it.
SO : Is there anyone here, how can say that it is worth to buy a class6 card e.g. ??
if : where do you got the information a HD can handle the speed at all ?
thanks
alex
qtype said:
i'm interested in the two following cards that i found on e-bay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/TOPRAM-16GB-16G...C_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item4cec018066
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-EDGE-Tech-1...gital_Camera_Memory_Cards?hash=item5d26f2c39e
did anyone maybe bought the and tried them?
I never heard about those manufacturers before so I'm interested in the quality.
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i bought the A-Data 16gig Micro SD card with two adaptors class 6 card off ebay for $54.99 and works great in my MyTouch 3g very fast and it has a lifetime warranty on also
Hi all,
I'm quite sure I had this setting in Villain 5.4, but since I got 5.5, this setting is missing in settings->applications. Is there a way to put it back easily, or maybe my customizing the app2sd script ? Or at least, can I execute the script again sometimes to do it ?
Also, just another question : I know someone who has a 16gb sd card class 2 on a desire (great phone btw) and I said that since he moved his apps to sd, he don't feel any difference, even with class 2. Does it worth buying a class 4 or 6 when these are twice or even more the price ???
Thanks
LTourist said:
Also, just another question : I know someone who has a 16gb sd card class 2 on a desire (great phone btw) and I said that since he moved his apps to sd, he don't feel any difference, even with class 2. Does it worth buying a class 4 or 6 when these are twice or even more the price ???
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It very much depends on the quality of the card. My Sandisk 16gb Class 2 card writes at 7.5mb/s, which is faster than the class 6 minimums.
Regards,
Dave
This is the one I thought buying, because it was the cheaper without being an unknown company
Where did you get yours and at what price ?
Amazon - see here.
Regards,
Dave
OK, thanks, that's the one I saw too just asked to be sure that I have found the best price
now, anyone regarding my first question ?
FYI,...
Here's the one I'm considering at the moment,...
Transcend 8 GB Class 6 microSDHC Flash Memory Card with adapter
Customer reviews
"...I was getting write speeds of over 6MB I think the fastest was something like 6.70MB per second..."
"... Write speed with this card is the slowest of the lot, barely creeping above 5.3MB/sec..."
Hmmm,... I really dont know,... is this a good buy?
Considering the fact that the 16gb Sandisk seems to do its jobs very well, I'd rather buy the 16gb one...
Going from a 2 gig SD to an 8 gig SD..
Is it as simple enough that i just make a copy of ALL the stuff on the original SD and copy it to the new one?
/EDIT- is anyone running an 8 gig SD with no problems, i heard its gotta be a class 6 or ill get unmounting problems?
If you don't use an ext partition just copy and paste your files.
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dont buy class 4 sd card of any size. class 4 cards dont work with optimus one. they will keep unmounting. any other class or size card will work. aka class 2,6,10
the class of the card is determined by the clad number depicted on the card itself. a class 2 card will have the digit 2 written inside a small circle. same way with all other classes.
higher class means faster operation and probably more cost.
nikhil4186 said:
dont buy class 4 sd card of any size. class 4 cards dont work with optimus one. they will keep unmounting. any other class or size card will work. aka class 2,6,10
the class of the card is determined by the clad number depicted on the card itself. a class 2 card will have the digit 2 written inside a small circle. same way with all other classes.
higher class means faster operation and probably more cost.
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hello I bought an optimus one p500h yesterday and it comes with a 8gb class4, and it works ok.
nikhil4186 said:
dont buy class 4 sd card of any size. class 4 cards dont work with optimus one. they will keep unmounting. any other class or size card will work. aka class 2,6,10
the class of the card is determined by the clad number depicted on the card itself. a class 2 card will have the digit 2 written inside a small circle. same way with all other classes.
higher class means faster operation and probably more cost.
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Since I keep seeing vagueness wrt exactly what the class rating of an SDHC card means, I'll spell it out:
Class X: guarantees MINIMUM write through put of X MB/s period nothing more nothing less.
i.e. read speeds can be anything as they're not mentioned by spec, latency can be anything again as not mentioned by spec, etc.
In the pre-SDHC days the VERY best uSD cards were those made in Japan by Toshiba(only manufacturer of uSD cards in Japan, might be re-badged but made in Japan is the giveaway). They maintained good read/write throughput and relatively low latency even when full. (All of those numbers tended to decrease as a uSD card became more filled.)
Made in Taiwan were next up. Passable, but no where near as good as Japanese.
Made in China bottom of the heap. I'd really only recommend using them if you had no other choice. Or could get by with R/W throughputs and latencies that were relatively poor and got much worse as the card became filled.
Also note there DOES exist a fairly rare pre-SDHC 4GB uSD card. I've never seen one personally but I know that they exist. Most were 128MB - 2GB.
Not sure if this still applies with SDHC as the controller electronics were changed and the min. write throughput spec added (mostly for video recording!).
All of this said I've got a PNY class 4 4GB uSD card that I'll have to try. The card is badged as PNY so I'm not certain who the mfg actually is. I'll see if I can't dig it up later IF it actually works correctly. (Only bought some of these since a b&m store actually had them at a close to decent price of $10 and they were suitable for my other devices.)
OK :|
Mass confusion now, i dont use a custom rom, so i dont need a partion, sweet will just copy across, im using a class 4 card now and its working fine so not sure what class to get, i thought it was just a problem with this fone that happened to ALL classes.
Vivasanti said:
OK :|
Mass confusion now, i dont use a custom rom, so i dont need a partion, sweet will just copy across, im using a class 4 card now and its working fine so not sure what class to get, i thought it was just a problem with this fone that happened to ALL classes.
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I have a class 10 sd card, but its made in china and its very low quality.. The read and write speeds are totally unpredictable. Sometimes i get read speeds of 20Mbps, but other times, i get 2-3Mbps. It is these kind of low quality cards that you must avoid. Good quality Class 4s will not cause an unmount.
Eg: Sandisk Ultra (Class 4) are way faster than Transcend (class 4)
(From what i have seen personally)
One more thing, it was reported that Android 2.2.2 fixed the unmount problem. So, incase you experience unmounts, you can even try using a 2.2.2 ROM.
I have class 6 transcenfld and it's super fast. Around 11 mb write and 20 read.
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Thanks guys, im still running 2.2, ill make sure to grab a class 4 card (i currently have a class 4 with no problems)
i have sandisk class 4, 8gig card. took from nokia 5800. working without problems
If u experience unmount prob jst flash ur ph wid mik's kernel
It has solved my unmount n restarting problems
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I think if u can find a 8GB class 4 Patriot microSD card... just get it... i'm using it and no problem at all... stay away from A-Data or Kingston cards... most of people that having unmounting problems using these cards.
PS. this problem exists just in Froyo when u partition your card to install programs on SD. if u don't wanna use this feature... or if u wanna use Mik's Gingerbread... take any microSD you want. but if u wanna use this feature i think Patriot Card would be better.
I use a Sandisk 4 GB class 4 card and still have unmount problems.
simple copy past is not working if you are using app2sd.
if u copy and paste u will have to reinstall all the apps but the data will be ok try titanium backup (did not tested titanium, but fkd up everything when i tried with copy and paste )
Hey mobile.dailysteals.com has a deal today for 1 micro sd card shipped for 17.98.
Decent price, but you do not get a full size adapter
pksublime said:
Hey mobile.dailysteals.com has a deal today for 1 micro sd card shipped for 17.98.
Decent price, but you do not get a full size adapter
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It's a class 2 just in case that's important to anyone.
Sorry, what a class 2. Is that a generic card?
anoroc44 said:
Sorry, what a class 2. Is that a generic card?
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The class of the card relates to the speed which it can read and write information. The higher the class the faster the card.
anoroc44 said:
Sorry, what a class 2. Is that a generic card?
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Class 2 means absolute garbage. Well for me it is. They are usually crap and it is the speed rating, which is usually under. So that means that even though its rated @ 2MB/s you will probably never see that.
I just ordered a 32gig class 10. Will let you know how it goes. Should be just as good as my last one, got over 14MB/s write speeds and 22MB/s+ read so.
When you put your music and files on it it doesn't take 30 minutes to do. Also when you are recording in hd and stuff you aren't getting glitches and whatnot. For me I wouldn't get anything less than a class 6. Your choice.
The one I got : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211558
-DJ
$70 super pricey. But I sure could use one
Hope this hasn't already been posted, figured it was a pretty good deal.
64GB Sandisk
Thank you so much for posting this deal! I surfed through my wallet and through all of the left over best buy gift cards I had I ended up with a free 64gb microsdxc! This was an amazing deal to begin with, but you just cant beat that!
Nice, not to bad at all. Glad you got one!
Don't forget to reformat the card in your phone - or else it won't work.
I've had mine for 4 months I think? It's great - I love it. I won't be able to live with less memory ever again - which will be a problem with most of the next gen phones seemingly going away from memory cards.
P0ll0L0c0 said:
I won't be able to live with less memory ever again - which will be a problem with most of the next gen phones seemingly going away from memory cards.
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If we refuse to buy said items they won't head that direction!! I will not be lead by a company to have less choices..
ifly4vamerica said:
Hope this hasn't already been posted, figured it was a pretty good deal.
64GB Sandisk
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Thanks for the link, I went to my local Frys and got them to price match....hate waiting for shipping
does sandisk make any higher than class 6?
evod3 said:
does sandisk make any higher than class 6?
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I'm not sure, but I don't think so yet (64gb).
This link shows benchmark pics of a class 10 16gb vs. SanDisk class 6 64gb, and the SanDisk is actually faster than the class 10 card.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...c-card-huge-capacity-meets-impressive-speeds/
louforgiveno said:
I'm not sure, but I don't think so yet (64gb).
This link shows benchmark pics of a class 10 16gb vs. SanDisk class 6 64gb, and the SanDisk is actually faster than the class 10 card.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...c-card-huge-capacity-meets-impressive-speeds/
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I wish I knew what brand that class 10 card was. It's garbage. I just ran that tool thrice and my average read/write was 10.9/4.9MB/s respectively with a Class 4 SanDisk 32MB. That said, I'm also pretty pissed I paid 65 dollars for this card when I could have gotten better speed and more powahhhh for not much more if I waited. FML.
In case anyone doesn't know, the class rating on these cards is the minimum write speed the card will achieve, provided you're not copying a movie from a USB 1.0 PC or something else that would bottleneck it.
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To be fair you can't go with the read/write on a card unless you test empty. My 32GB card surpasses the Class 10 it is if empty but get near full and it' just below a Class 6. So the tests mean absolutely nothing unless you are testing with an almost full card. It's time I moved to a 64GB card my 32GB is too full with the games on it.. LOL
Wrong.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
molitar said:
To be fair you can't go with the read/write on a card unless you test empty. My 32GB card surpasses the Class 10 it is if empty but get near full and it' just below a Class 6. So the tests mean absolutely nothing unless you are testing with an almost full card. It's time I moved to a 64GB card my 32GB is too full with the games on it.. LOL
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I ran my tests without removing any files and it still exceeded the write speed for it's class. My card has 20GB free of the 30GB available.
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