Hi guys, jus wanna knw if there is any difference in the performance of the phone (other than jus transferring files to n from pc) according to the class of the sd card?
Thanx
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Yes there is. The class tells you the transfer speed for witch the card is rated.
For example, my card is class 10. That means that its capable of transfer speeds of up to 10mb/s. Same for others.
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So that transfer speed of 10 mbps refers to the speed @ which files are being transferred to n from pc right?
My question is apart from that will it affect the performance of phone when i hv apps in ext (a2sd)
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Yes, speed class is guaranteed write-to-card speed in megabytes/second (read speed is usually even higher). Obviously, the bigger class, the better, but high-class also much pricier. And you unlikely too see much speed difference if you just want to put some apps on SD card (well, depends on the app - some games are 300Mb+, and you'd see the difference).
But if you for example want to watch movies on your phone, you may find that slow speed class, like 2, is a pita to wait for while a movie transfers from your pc ;-). Class 10 would be a real hit then (especially if you write files using a cardreader, it may be not as good via USB to a phone).
Hv a class 2 1gb card, planning to get class 6 8gb card. So i should see significant performance improvements while havin ext partition right?
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hey all, i was just wondering if anyone knows the differences between the tests that crystaldiskmark does to test the speed of a storage device.
there are 4 different tests: sequential, 512k, 4k, and 4kQD32. read and write tests for each type of test.
thanks!
EDIT: heres a screenshot of my results:
I can't tell you about all of them, but sequential writes are what your card class is all about. A class X card is supposed to write a minimum of X MB/s. Your class 6 is writing well above its rating, congrats.
The other I can mention is 4kQD32 writes -- according to the Nook Color folks, it's very helpful for performance of SD installs of Android, so if we ever get an sd install here, hold on to that card. Higher class cards, 6 and 10, often do horrible in that 4k writes category. Class 2 and 4 Sandisks seem to have the best track record, but your transcend isn't half bad, and my best 4k writer is a no name card that outperforms my other 2 sandisks and a samsung. Source.
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I can't tell you about all of them, but sequential writes are what your card class is all about. A class X card is supposed to write a minimum of X MB/s. Your class 6 is writing well above its rating, congrats.
The other I can mention is 4kQD32 writes -- according to the Nook Color folks, it's very helpful for performance of SD installs of Android, so if we ever get an sd install here, hold on to that card. Higher class cards, 6 and 10, often do horrible in that 4k writes category. Class 2 and 4 Sandisks seem to have the best track record, but your transcend isn't half bad, and my best 4k writer is a no name card that outperforms my other 2 sandisks and a samsung. Source.
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All right thanks. Its weird though I was just trying to copy a huge amount of files to my sd card (about 6.5 gb) and it was writing at like 3 mb's per second. Does the size of the transfer affect the write speed since this test was only using a 50 mb file?
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Copying lots of little files, in my experience, goes slower than copying a single large file. When I copy a video onto my card, I get close to the max speed. When I copy directories full of files, anything goes.
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Copying lots of little files, in my experience, goes slower than copying a single large file. When I copy a video onto my card, I get close to the max speed. When I copy directories full of files, anything goes.
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Ok well I guess this sd card isn't all too bad then... really wanting to get a 32 gb card but trying to wait until I can get a better deal for it... you think a sandisk class 4 32 gb is good enough for games and videos?? I haven't seen any class 6 32 gb cards anywhere... not even sure if they exist...
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you think a sandisk class 4 32 gb is good enough for games and videos??
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I have a SanDisk Class 4 32 gb card for my Nook Tablet and it seems to work fine for games like GTA3, Angry Birds, etc. as well as .avi movies.
I tend to agree with Nookie. Depending on its actual performance (sandisks often outperform their minimum write rating, but not always), it might be frustrating to copy the files over, but viewing videos and playing games will work just fine even on a class 2. Fast sequential read speeds are easy to come by, and frankly they don't have to be all that fast to view even HD video. Your games are going to load into ram and play from there and perform just fine.
Increase performance?
I've a 32GB class 10 sd card, very curious to know if having another place for apps to load from would increase or decrease performance?
Thank you
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Although I tend to try to store my data mostly on my sdcard the internal memory def is faster at reading and writing ..
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Please any one live in Jordan-ME
Help me with SdCard
I want 8GB or 16GB SDcard for my XM ?
How much will cost me and any advice before i buy it ?
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hejawi said:
Hi
Please any one live in Jordan-ME
Help me with SdCard
I want 8GB or 16GB SDcard for my XM ?
How much will cost me and any advice before i buy it ?
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Don't know how much will it cost.
Priority is card speed. Higher class is faster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Speed_Class_Rating
dont know the cost...my advice go for sandisk HC mem card class6 or a class 10...ur phone performance vl increase gradually ..
iam using a class 6 16gb my xpm is pretty faster than before.
sandy7 said:
dont know the cost...my advice go for sandisk HC mem card class6 or a class 10...ur phone performance vl increase gradually ..
iam using a class 6 16gb my xpm is pretty faster than before.
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Phone performance isn't affected by SDcard.
The only difference you can see is when you read/write files from SD, nothing more.
Web browsing doesn't get faster with higher class SDcard. Calling doesn't get better with higher class SDcard.
And Class 4 is enough for Android, I've never had problems with it and the speed is enough for me.
Someguyfromhell said:
Phone performance isn't affected by SDcard.
The only difference you can see is when you read/write files from SD, nothing more.
Web browsing doesn't get faster with higher class SDcard. Calling doesn't get better with higher class SDcard.
And Class 4 is enough for Android, I've never had problems with it and the speed is enough for me.
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If you want to copy about 4 GB of data to SD from PC with class4 card and then copy same file/s to class10 card the time is a lot shorter with class10!
This is why many people use higher card class.
And when you want to have system in externel memory* this require minimum class6 card to avoid lags.
* e.g. HTC HD2
my Sdcard is 16GB class 10 (sillicon power) and write speed is 8 - 9 MB/s and read speed is 16 - 17 MB/s , this is very nice SDcard
Someguyfromhell said:
Phone performance isn't affected by SDcard.
The only difference you can see is when you read/write files from SD, nothing more.
Web browsing doesn't get faster with higher class SDcard. Calling doesn't get better with higher class SDcard.
And Class 4 is enough for Android, I've never had problems with it and the speed is enough for me.
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I agree with u...but music player and video playback performance increases...and also after a reboot when u have apps installed in the sd it loads faster in the app drawer.
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I think you should use SD 8GB :laugh:
Hi guys
I'm looking to buy a Micro sd card, samsung 32GB, class 10
So my questions are:
1- If someone already using sd card just like this one, tell me is it working fine with your android device?
2- Do you think that patriot or some other manufacturer cards are better then samsung?
3- Does your phone in some cases really feals faster with an sd card with bigger class number ( does reading speed of your card effect phone's speed? )
4- I heard that class 6 ( 6 MBps ) is more than enough for android devices, and also that some class 10 cards slow down a device, is it true?
5- Will i ever have enough memory on my phone
I know that there are the same threads on forum somewhere, but i need answers quickly and thats why im opening this one..
Marchello1 said:
Hi guys
I'm looking to buy a Micro sd card, samsung 32GB, class 10
So my questions are:
1- If someone already using sd card just like this one, tell me is it working fine with your android device?
2- Do you think that patriot or some other manufacturer cards are better then samsung?
3- Does your phone in some cases really feals faster with an sd card with bigger class number ( does reading speed of your card effect phone's speed? )
4- I heard that class 6 ( 6 MBps ) is more than enough for android devices, and also that some class 10 cards slow down a device, is it true?
5- Will i ever have enough memory on my phone
I know that there are the same threads on forum somewhere, but i need answers quickly and thats why im opening this one..
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1. It works fine.
2. It just user preference. Their both great.
3. Reading and writing to the SD card will be faster. It won't affect phone speed unless your device is using certain mods such as swaps, int.ext. sd swaps, etc. or you have apps on your SD card.
4. While class 6 may be quite fast for a device, there is no way a class 10 could be slower.
5. That's up to you .
tnx Theonew
if i understood it well, an app called swapper 2 can allow device to use some memory from partitioned sd card like a ram memory and provide it a slightly better multitasking, and speed.. ?
And i have read that it can also affect an sd card's life..
So, is it worth it?
Marchello1 said:
tnx Theonew
if i understood it well, an app called swapper 2 can allow device to use some memory from partitioned sd card like a ram memory and provide it a slightly better multitasking, and speed.. ?
And i have read that it can also affect an sd card's life..
So, is it worth it?
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Yes, swapping can degrade the life of the SD card but it is worth it if your device is a low-end one (and slow). It will assist in stuff like gaming, etc.
No, I really don't think its worth it. It really affects the cards life and does not really add much ram, even for slow phones...
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No, I really don't think its worth it. It really affects the cards life and does not really add much ram, even for slow phones...
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An additional 256mb is quite a lot compared to 192mb (total).
Quick benchmark of Samsung SD card class 10 in the ASUS Transformer TF101.
Code:
[email protected]:/home/kuisma# hdparm -t /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
/dev/block/mmcblk1p2:
Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.09 seconds = 19.43 MB/sec
Reference, the internal nand flash (/data partition):
Code:
[email protected]:/home/kuisma# hdparm -t /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
/dev/block/mmcblk0p7:
Timing buffered disk reads: 52 MB in 3.10 seconds = 16.79 MB/sec
If comparing read vs write, large blocks vs small, sequential vs random etc, the SD Cards wins a few times, the internal flash a few. It's more or less a draw. I would say this SD card got "good enough" performance, although far from SSD performance.
good enough for smartphone
are you talking about solid state disk?
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are you talking about solid state disk?
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"SSD" was referring to "solid state disk", yes.
i found one for a 40€, micro sd, 32 gb class 10, its a good price here, im buying it next week
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Hi,
What I'm trying to find out is would using just an in-built memory on an Android phone be generally faster than SD usage? I'm particularly interested in using an Android phone as a sole media device. With a 32GB SD I'm generally not happy with speeds etc. Would getting a 32GB device with that memory on the device improve data transfer with the computer and accessing the data on the phone?
Thanks for any info. that helps me understand! :good:
SharpnShiny said:
Hi,
What I'm trying to find out is would using just an in-built memory on an Android phone be generally faster than SD usage? I'm particularly interested in using an Android phone as a sole media device. With a 32GB SD I'm generally not happy with speeds etc. Would getting a 32GB device with that memory on the device improve data transfer with the computer and accessing the data on the phone?
Thanks for any info. that helps me understand! :good:
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In the general case, a Class 10 SDcard got about the same speed as the internal (mtd or mmc) disk.
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In the general case, a Class 10 SDcard got about the same speed as the internal (mtd or mmc) disk.
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This. Not all SD Cards are the same. Make sure yours is a class 10 card and not one of the slower versions.
I did start to have a look at that recently. I'm using a class 4. I seen you can get a class 10 very cheap now, compared to a few years ago. I purchased the 32GB SD as a (minor purchase) test to see how well it works. I think it has potential, but in transfer speeds, my iPod still kicks ass. It can transfer a song per second, but at the moment, my Android phone transfers 1 song every 4 seconds.
If it would make a significant performance boost in this area, I'll definitely try that class 10!
Something like this?
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/221087900172?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/320956174043?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
In-built memory is the fastest but these days Class 10 SD cards are very near the W&R speed of in-built memory.
So try buying a quality Class 10 SD card and im sure you will have better experience with it.
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In-built memory is the fastest [...]
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Not necessary: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29289018&postcount=7