Hey guys..
I am thinking about buying a new SDcard.
I have thought about buying a microSDHC with adapter to be able to use it in other devices (smartphones) too. Will I use performance because of the adapter? Anyone has tried this?
Thanks in advance
edit: I am thinking about buying one of these sandisk ultras with 32 gb
I do not think the adapter has any impact on the card's internal mechanism from where the performance comes. It would be like an external SSD having different performances depending on the size of the USB cable, which doesn't make sense. Unless the adapter is of very poor quality...
The thing that might affect performance is the device that is using the card (device's card-reader quality, device's performance).
So i am deciding now between an sandisk ultra or an sandisk ultra extreme. Will the Prime be able to handle the improved reading/writing speeds of the "extreme" one? People seem to need usb3.0 card readers to fully handle the speeds, so i am a bit in doubt, that the prime can use it?
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Do I should buy a Sandisk Ultra 2 for my new pda2k or any other sandisk or any brand at normal speed is the same?
Do I will have better performance with a faster one, or the SD port on the pda2k doesn't support faster cards?
thanks for the help!
Tano
The 32gb athena mod thread has been about for a while, but with the imminent release of 16gb micro sdhc's and 32gb micro sdhc's to follow shortly after is there still a need for such a mod?
Would you risk bricking your device and voiding your warranty to install an ssd or prefer a memory card as an alternative. I am reliably informed that the read/write speed of internal drives is quicker in benchmarking tests, but how much bearing does this have on performance? what i know from experience is that the transfer speed of sdhc cards with a reader is much quicker than the software alternatives of wm5torage and activesync.
I would like to hear what you think the advantage of an ssd over a memory card of the same capacity is. If you were to buy a 32gb card would you even consider removing or disabling the microdrive to save battery life? Or would you prefer the full 40gb and utilise the two storage mediums for different purposes?
I think replacing the internal microdrive with a 1" SSD would help battery life as well as give us even more potential capacity. We would be able to have full movies on the drive instead of having to use an SDHC card with the lower transfer rate.
adamelphick said:
I think replacing the internal microdrive with a 1" SSD would help battery life as well as give us even more potential capacity. We would be able to have full movies on the drive instead of having to use an SDHC card with the lower transfer rate.
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The speed of an SDHC card versus an SSD for viewing movies is completely irrelevant. An SDHC is MORE THAN FAST ENOUGH to watch a movie smoothly, even one of a very high bitrate.
The transfer speed of files TO an SDHC card using a card reader is VERY HIGH in comparison to transferring files over activesync or via WM5torage to an internal drive however. This for me is the crucial factor, since i'd much rather be able to copy new films onto a card as quickly as possible. The only way the extra speed of an internal drive might make a difference is with the installation of programs, but you would still be able to install programs to the 8gb microdrive AND have a 32gb card.
Try copying 2gb of data to your microdrive with wm5torage, and 2gb to an sdhc card with a reader.
Actually, my choice is C, which is to do BOTH the options listed.
That's basically what i said eaglesteve.... don't want to limit out memory potential... the MD is cack compared to a decent SSD module - not due to its access times which for MD are good, but due to its shock resistance and battery life.
I agree, Both would be great, but the cost of the 32 Gig unit is going to be a lot more than the difference between the X7500 price and the X7510s.
Realistically our current options pricewise will be the X7510 with 16Gig internal and a 12Gig MicroSD card.
G
For me, replacing the 8GB MD with a 32GB SSD would be, as they say in the UK, "the dog's bollocks..." I am a pilot and the MD, in addition to its shock and vibration sensitivity, is only good for 10,000 ft and below in unpressurized cabins. This alone would be enough to make me switch. Mechanical disks are in the early stages of extinction.
Possible new stuff for our devices:
Car Charger FM Transmitter for O2/HTC/Dopod with LCD Display
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27058
___not sure if this will work with our android devices, some of the other HTC stuff doesn't, but if it does it'd be nice.
SD to MicroSD/TransFlash Card Converter Module
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27001
___might take some riggin' but sounds like it has possibilities!
I don't have the capability to try either of these (long story, involves an ex and online purchases ), but I'm sure someone either has or is willing to give it a shot!
Very interesting...
With this oversized battery cover for my extended battery I could see a useful hiding spot for that micro SD to SD converter...
Still not brave enough to disassemble my $300 phone.
I do like the idea of the SD adapter and extended battery and cover. I doubt you'd have to disassemble the phone to pull it off, just shave off a bit of the extended battery cover and route the ribbon cable into it and slap it back together.
Don't know if the dream would support the transfer speeds, but a 150x full size SD would be sweet.
FM transmitter would be nice, except all the frequencies are used up in this area.
Would there be any benefits from having a regular SD card though? I thought that a class 6 microsdhc is just as fast? They're about the same price, too.
amgupt01 said:
Would there be any benefits from having a regular SD card though? I thought that a class 6 microsdhc is just as fast? They're about the same price, too.
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That is the question. Class 6 is the highest rating, which is supposed to denote a minimum of 6MB/sec write speed. A Wikipedia article says class 6 = 40x.
Some full size cards claim to be faster than that. Kingston manufactures one that claims 120x speed. I wouldn't expect triple speed, but it would be fun to test.
This is all assuming that the adapter will work, and that the i/o in the phone can keep up.
With a full size SD card you could use a eyefi card.
http://www.eye.fi/cards/share_video.html#
andrew richardson said:
Car Charger FM Transmitter for O2/HTC/Dopod with LCD Display
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27058
___not sure if this will work with our android devices, some of the other HTC stuff doesn't, but if it does it'd be nice.
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Ordered one of those ^^^ earlier this week. I'll review it once it comes in.
For chuckles I ran the following a few times: dd count=1k bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=${test location}/crap.dd
Internal memory yields variable performance (I've got as high as a bit over 16M/s) but seems to pretty stable at roughly 10M/s, like a Class 10 MicroSD (I don't know what if any scales are normal for eMMC). I tested both with BusyBox in /mnt/sdcard and with GNU coreutils in my Debian chroot. This is a far cry from my work station, which almost pulled 60M/s on it's SATA drive but eh, who am I to complain as long as it beats my phones MicroSD. Just wish the prime managed heavy disk writes better.
My 8GB Class 4 SanDisk MicroSD card lives up to it's 4M/s rating when in the port. Using an adapter in the dock doesn't seem to be any real problem.
Now my 4GB Kingston Data Traveler.... gives > 1M/s but much less than <2M/s in the dock. Just to be sure I plugged it into my work station for a single test, and got 2.2M/s.
ASUS advertises USB 2.0, and my work station has a Core 2 Duo E8400, so I'm sure it's secretly a USB 1.1 problem . I think this goes to show, if you want a cheap method of storage, it's probably better to get a cheap MicroSD card. Especially with how many x86 systems now have them.
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Hi i am doing a German exchange in April what means I will be sitting on a bus for over (5 hours not including plane) .
I have bought an Anker external battery to run external hard drives but I need help to know which one to put films on to play over the otg and what is the biggest storage space the otg can support. I cannot decide if a memory stick, Hard drive or and ssd would be better.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
i'm not 100% sure if there is a limit to the size, but...
the limit is for sure the amount of power the external device needs
so you can forget about an hdd or ssd if it's not powered separately
i'd go with a usb stick
one guy here at the forum suggest to me to use SanDisk 8GB as that is what worked for him
i gambled a bit and went for 16GB and it works like a charm
so if you want to raise the stakes go for the 32GB and report back if it works
btw. it's SanDisk Cruzer Blade
you can get it on ebay if not your local store
good luck and have a safe trip
Astral07 said:
i'm not 100% sure if there is a limit to the size, but...
the limit is for sure the amount of power the external device needs
so you can forget about an hdd or ssd if it's not powered separately
i'd go with a usb stick
one guy here at the forum suggest to me to use SanDisk 8GB as that is what worked for him
i gambled a bit and went for 16GB and it works like a charm
so if you want to raise the stakes go for the 32GB and report back if it works
btw. it's SanDisk Cruzer Blade
you can get it on ebay if not your local store
good luck and have a safe trip
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I got a 320gb working but i had to do ntfs app, i was more wondering which one would be the best to be travelled and will still work after a long bumpy journey, (ssd, Hdd,Memory stick)
Any one of them will work...bumpy journey or not. Still, i would say a stick is the easiest one to travel with... taking size and weigth in the equation
I has connect otg with harddisk docking support 2TB
SSD and thumb drive are your best bets for bumpy rides though they all take a pretty good beating
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