Bottom line.. whats the best -allround- SD card? - Page 2 - maemo.org

samper | # 11 | 2008-01-16, 03:47 | Report

I use an A_data 4GB card - paid just 20 bucks at buy.com. so far so good.

Kepheus | # 12 | 2008-01-16, 08:39 | Report

Well, not me but my employer

has the funds to allow me and my staff to buy multiple SD cards for a range of mobile devices. This is part of our day-to-day business as we are eg. conducting tests with mobile phones, PDAs, UMPCs, smartphones and running VPN clients, activesync push and so on.

From the day-to-day perspective, I mostly don't see a difference whatever SD card I use. That said, we usually buy "our trusted brands", i.e. from brands we know for years now and that (to date at least

) never failed us: Kingston, Transcend, SanDisk (random order). With SDHC we also had to try some new card readers (SanDisk, Lian Li, Kingston...).

We use all different kinds of SD cards: microSD, miniSD, SD, SDHC (micro, mini, ...), capacity ranging from 512 MB to 8 GB with 16 GB following shortly. And every single card holds the specified capacity.
Honestly, although I do prefer class 6 SDHC cards the larger the better I only can tell the difference when transferring serious amounts of data. Just using the cards with a mobile device, all we bought to date are fit for the job. At least that's our experience

Bottom line? I don't worry too much as IMHO I would have to spend 80-90% of my time to squeeze out the last 10-20% of performance. But maybe that's just me

(Side note: As I travel a lot and we are field testing the devices, I have my music with me - that's the main reason I prefer SDHC class 6

)

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SeCALPHA1 | # 13 | 2008-01-16, 18:10 | Report

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post

How is anyone supposed to respond to you? You say you want facts and not opinion. Well... unless someone has the funds to buy multiple cards at multiple speeds all you are going to get is opinion.

Through accumulated experiance from various users. That's how.

Originally Posted by

I heard that this brand likes to fail at 2 months of use. Please keep us posted after another month.

This is a perfect example of what i was looking for.

Originally Posted by

... From the day-to-day perspective, I mostly don't see a difference whatever SD card I use. That said, we usually buy "our trusted brands", i.e. from brands we know for years now and that (to date at least

) never failed us: Kingston, Transcend, SanDisk (random order). With SDHC we also had to try some new card readers (SanDisk, Lian Li, Kingston...) ...

And this is a perfectly descriptive example of what I was intending to find.

True to this statement, I had contemplated purchasing cards referring only to these listed companies, with Lian Li as the exception. I've heard much that these cards tend to fail often.

Thank you all for the support!

Kepheus | # 14 | 2008-01-17, 19:30 | Report

Originally Posted by SeCALPHA1 View Post

True to this statement, I had contemplated purchasing cards referring only to these listed companies, with Lian Li as the exception. I've heard much that these cards tend to fail often.

Just to avoid misunderstandings... I was referring to an internal (3.5" model CR-35A) card reader by Lian Li. I'm not aware of any SD(HC) cards they provide, at least not in Germany

zeleftikam | # 15 | 2008-01-18, 05:07 | Report

Speaking of memory cards, I recently switched out the factory 128MB Nokia MiniSD card for a 2GB Kingston card. I had "virtual memory" enabled on both of the cards.

After installing the 2GB card, it seems like the device is a bit slower. The browser takes a wee bit longer to open, for example. Could it be that the Nokia card is faster than the Kingston card I installed?

jonmlee | # 16 | 2008-01-18, 05:51 | Report

i got the a-data 16gb sdhc card for 65 bucks from newegg. i also have an 8gb kingston class 6 card. i don't know if the anything faster than a certain class even matters for the n800 though. i just no the 2 sd card would crap out and have a write lock from maemo mapper and these faster cards don't have that issue.

ghoonk | # 17 | 2008-01-18, 10:44 | Report

I just ordered 2 A-Data 16GB SDHC cards from newegg.com and should be picking them up when I get back to Singapore in a couple of week. These cards will reside in my external N800 slot and I will provide feedback on their reliability over the next couple of months. I plan to use these cards for media playback (mostly videos and music)