Is there a consensus on a brand of preference for either a 1GB or 2GB card? I've noticed Kingston and Sandisk (~22x) don't have nearly the transfer speeds offered by either Transcend (80x) or Ridata (150x). Does transfer speed even matter or is it best to go for max. capacity?
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Mini-SD expansion card -- speed vs. capacity
- Thread starter jjbb bb
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I was testing a bunch of the 1gig miniSD cards. Kingston ones seems to be fakes. By far the most stable ones are from PNY. These PNY cards are made by TOSHIBA & it said Made In Japan for 512megs version & Made in Taiwan for 1gig version. Using Toshiba chipset it seems to be clocking about 150x, beats Transcend 80X hands down!!
The blue Sandisks are slow, Transcend is so so.. Ridata is quite fast too, Apacer is ok also. Dun even try MWalker/Silicon Power & other no brand. They are not worth it, it's slow & overheating problem that most have.
Since now the 1gig MiniSD u can get for RM110 for PNY 1gig, there is not point getting others.
By the way. There are more than 50% of Kingston or Sandisk Memory card being FAKE ones. Just beware. They are all over on ebay.
The blue Sandisks are slow, Transcend is so so.. Ridata is quite fast too, Apacer is ok also. Dun even try MWalker/Silicon Power & other no brand. They are not worth it, it's slow & overheating problem that most have.
Since now the 1gig MiniSD u can get for RM110 for PNY 1gig, there is not point getting others.
By the way. There are more than 50% of Kingston or Sandisk Memory card being FAKE ones. Just beware. They are all over on ebay.
badinfluencegirl1995
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i have a brand new corsair 2gb card that just replaced my 1gb sandisk card. both are authentic (hopefully because i bought them retail). nothing on the package for the corsair mentions high speed or anything, but my phone actually reads the card faster than the 1gb sandisk that i had before. when looking at the prices, the corsair was a few dollars cheaper and i had never tried corsair before, so i got it. now i am very happy with my purchase. will probly use corsair more often now in the future.
entrapped?
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Why would one care about speed?
If you store most of your apps on the card it can effect launch times, plus if you have your pix saved to there, it can really speed up the process to have a fast card. If you put media on there (mp3's, videos, etc.) it's nice to have as much speed as possible, a slow card could effect video playback.
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geetargrl59
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Do you have any data on this? Or are you just assuming. I think the phone would be the data transfer bottle neck, not the card. I really doubt you will see a negligible performance sans using a card reader with a pc.
garrettk18
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I'm having trouble with the phone locking up when I record a 15 sec video on my LG vx-9800. This is only on high resolution, not at low resolution. I have a Kingston 1 gb mini-sd card. I'm wondering if the card is too slow. (The phone ends up saving the video after it locks up after it re-boots after about 30 seconds.)