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16GB microSDHC suggestions?

I want a Class 6 one. But I think over $50 on newegg is too expensive.
8GB for $15-20 on newegg... and the 16GB is double in space but more than double in price.
Where'd you get your 16GB Class 6 and how much?

Newegg ... $55-$60.

irishrally said:
Newegg ... $55-$60.
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$60 A-Data from newegg

PhantomRampage said:
$60 A-Data from newegg
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Yeah, Adata is the one I got, just couldn't remember the price exactly.

in one of these SD card threads, someone posted their result that a class 2 was just as fast as a class 6 for USB transfers. Do we really need class 6? can our phones even utilize the faster speed?

i'm with minty on this. you won't rly notice the difference. i've been using a class 2 sandisk 16gb since the day it was released about a year and a half ago. I don't regret spending that money at all, it's been with me with the g1, and now the nexus. File transfers are plenty fast and it hasn't skipped a heartbeat. I've had some dud flash memory cards in the past and they have all been cheaper cards. all of my transcend and sandisk cards are still going strong after years of use, so just go for one of those imho.

jamezracer said:
i'm with minty on this. you won't rly notice the difference. i've been using a class 2 sandisk 16gb since the day it was released about a year and a half ago. I don't regret spending that money at all, it's been with me with the g1, and now the nexus. File transfers are plenty fast and it hasn't skipped a heartbeat. I've had some dud flash memory cards in the past and they have all been cheaper cards. all of my transcend and sandisk cards are still going strong after years of use, so just go for one of those imho.
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do you happen to be running the latest CM mod with 720p video recording? I'm holding back on buying a sandisk 16g class 2 because i'm worried about write speeds/some crazy error.

sandisk 16gb class2
heres one for about 30bucks. a lot of good reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDHC-Memory-SDSDQ-016G-Packaging/dp/B001L1H0SC

MintyFloss said:
in one of these SD card threads, someone posted their result that a class 2 was just as fast as a class 6 for USB transfers. Do we really need class 6? can our phones even utilize the faster speed?
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The throughput of USB transfer might only be <2mb/sec max, but that's not necessarily the same for the internal bus transfer speeds.
I imagine, internally, it's faster. Even if it isn't, (IMO) a Class6 is more "future proof".

dabido said:
heres one for about 30bucks. a lot of good reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDHC-Memory-SDSDQ-016G-Packaging/dp/B001L1H0SC
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That link doesn't work...in fact,none of Amazon's links for products do! :| I'm going to side with Namuna,and say it may not be faster,but it may work with newer devices.

Holy crap, the 16gb AData card I got from Newegg I've had for awhile just filled up. It said it was 15.9gb out of 16gb but when I counted up all the files on the sd card they totalled just below 4gb.
I'm surprised Newegg would be selling fakes.

MintyFloss said:
do you happen to be running the latest CM mod with 720p video recording? I'm holding back on buying a sandisk 16g class 2 because i'm worried about write speeds/some crazy error.
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nope, but if that feature is in the first beta release of cm-6 then I will try it and let you know since i'll get overly excited as usual and install it right away.

I bought a Kingston 16gb Class10 two months ago.
It's about USD 90-95 in eBay.
I have no problem with 720p video recording.

[Small Review] SanDisk 32GB MicroSDHC (Class 2)

Hey guys,
got my new SanDisk 32GB MicroSDHC (Class 2) Card yesterday and it is performing great so far.
But before that, I'd like to warn you that there are tons of fake cards floating around.
I bought a 32GB Card one week ago and it turned out to be fake:
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I've tested to write the full capacity to the card but apparently this card only holds up to 1,9GB.
DON'T BUY FROM EBAY OR OTHER "SMALL BUSINESS SHOPS" You'll most likely get a fake card.
Really pissed after this experience I decided to buy from a reliable computer shop and spend more money and received my 32GB Card yesterday, and what can I say? It's better than I expected for a Class 2 card.
Check out the results here:
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As you can see, this card is genuine and you can write up to ~30GB to it.
The write speed with 5,21mb/s is pretty good for a Class 2 Card. Also the read speed is quite decent with 14 mb/s
This is more than sufficient for HD video recording and all the other things you'd wanna do with your Galaxy S.
I didn't expierence any lags with my phone using this card. Switching between photos, music etc.... all goes very smoothly.
Here's also a HDTune (3.50) shot for you guys interested in the read iops:
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Verdict: All things considered, I think this card performs fairly well without slowing down my Galaxy S. Watching tons videos/photos, listening to a huge music library and not having to worry about storage is really great.
The only downside of this card is the price (I've paid 108€) but considering the fact that the iPhone with 32GB is bloody expensive and with this card you would have up to 40GB of storage on your Galaxy S, this card is really a bargain and I fully recommend it.

That's great! I'm also considering to buy one the 16gb class4 version, but it seems difficult to find in Europe.

Where did you get your 32GB card?

30424 Mbye = 29.7109375 gb
What happened to the rest of the 2gb?

accinfo said:
30424 Mbye = 29.7109375 gb
What happened to the rest of the 2gb?
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some space will be taken by the file allocation table when the card is formatted as with all drives from harddrive to memory cards.
also the 32gb is somewhat less than 32gb in true storage size

bigbuffalo said:
Where did you get your 32GB card?
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I've bought it in Germany (ARLT Computer).

talking about memory and disk stuff,
32GB=32.000.000.000 bytes
wich is, 30517,58 MB or 29,80 GB
this is for the simple fact
a 8GB hard disk contains 8.000.000.000 bytes
a 8GB ram stick contains 8*1024*1024*1024=8589934592 bytes

That's a lot of cash considering a non-fake Toshiba Class 2 16gb is currently selling for £17.99 delivered in the UK?
€108 equates to about £90!

32GB cards are currently considerably more expensive than 2 x 16GB cards.
Where's the deal on that 16GB in the UK btw...?

So you can use micro SD HC cards with the galaxy s? I was told that you had to use an adapter because the device only has a micro SD slot? Sorry if this is a silly question, i haven't really dealt with external flash storage that much apart from my old sony ericsson walkman phone which used stick pro duo or something like that.

newsgroupmonkey said:
That's a lot of cash considering a non-fake Toshiba Class 2 16gb is currently selling for £17.99 delivered in the UK?
€108 equates to about £90!
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well I bought my 32GB sandisk at vodafone inkl an usb card reader for I believe 80pounds but couldnt find them anywhere else neither carphonewarehouse and other stores ... was worth the money ...

kempas said:
32GB cards are currently considerably more expensive than 2 x 16GB cards.
Where's the deal on that 16GB in the UK btw...?
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Can be found here
They also have a Sandisk one for only 2 pounds more.

that is right, currently it is not worth buying the 32GB
is cheaper to have 2 x 16 GB of Class 6

AllGamer said:
that is right, currently it is not worth buying the 32GB
is cheaper to have 2 x 16 GB of Class 6
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Er, that depends. To me having a 32GB card is well worth the extra expense, may not be to others, but its not a black and white issue as you suggest.

@GalaxyFan88 how's your Sandisk 32Gb? It doesn't lag your SGS?
I'm also considering on buying one. I'll check out the price here at Singapore's COMEX event tomorrow. Last time I checked it is still SGD168

Volcacius said:
That's great! I'm also considering to buy one the 16gb class4 version, but it seems difficult to find in Europe.
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No they're not: http://www.memoryc.com/products/des...microSDHC_Memory_Card_w_SD_adapter/index.html
Bought from them previously, reliable. This card should be good enough to use in my HD sanyo.
I don't know about class 2 cards... whats the HD bitrate on i9000?

DaRkMyk said:
@GalaxyFan88 how's your Sandisk 32Gb? It doesn't lag your SGS?
I'm also considering on buying one. I'll check out the price here at Singapore's COMEX event tomorrow. Last time I checked it is still SGD168
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Yea, it doesn't lag; at least there is nothing what I would describe as "laggy".
It does take some time to load 100s of photos on the gallery app, but I think this is quite normal.
At least if I view a hires picture, it opens up near instantly. Switching between pics and focusing also happens very quickly.
I'm happy with it so far. Having used this card for more than two months I don't have any complaints at all and I fully recommend it.

How is 720p hd recording with the card? Try it and see if the recorded video is stuttering. Ty.
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it records to the internal SD

GalaxyFan88 said:
Yea, it doesn't lag; at least there is nothing what I would describe as "laggy".
It does take some time to load 100s of photos on the gallery app, but I think this is quite normal.
At least if I view a hires picture, it opens up near instantly. Switching between pics and focusing also happens very quickly.
I'm happy with it so far. Having used this card for more than two months I don't have any complaints at all and I fully recommend it.
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Great!!! Gonna buy today! wee.. I hope my Media Scanner service won't choke up when I load all my media...!
Have you tried to play 720p MKVs from the memory card, how was it?

which 16gb memory card

hi i'm after a 16gb memory card but don't know what class to get, as cheap as possible but it must be from a well known manufacturer

Probably doesn't matter what anyone says - whichever brand person X stands behind, somenoe else will say it failed on them and to go for brand Y.
Having said that, I have a 16gb Kingston class 2 which has been perfect, cost about £25 or so when I got it. Recently picked up the same but a class 10. That one was about £80 including shipping as I wanted to see the speed difference, etc.
Not sure what others people will swear by. I don't swear by Kingston, but I have yet to have one go bad on me...

isaw said:
Probably doesn't matter what anyone says - whichever brand person X stands behind, somenoe else will say it failed on them and to go for brand Y.
Having said that, I have a 16gb Kingston class 2 which has been perfect, cost about £25 or so when I got it. Recently picked up the same but a class 10. That one was about £80 including shipping as I wanted to see the speed difference, etc.
Not sure what others people will swear by. I don't swear by Kingston, but I have yet to have one go bad on me...
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And was the Class 10 worth it for speed?
I've used both Kingston and Sandisk in the past - and currently have a 8GB Class 6 Sandisk in my desire. It's been just fine.
I'd like to make the leap to a 32GB card, but I'm slightly concerned the Class 2 one available might have issues. (Although I've read many contradicting posts on that subject too!)

@TractorMatty
Between an older 16gig class 2 and the 16gig class 10 yes - galleries rendered much quicker, seemed more responsive, etc.
But between a class 6 and a class 10... meh. Not worth it at the moment.

Does it matter what class you get? Because so far I can only find a 16bg class for over just £20.

Using Team Group 16GB microSDHC Class 6.
Got it from ebay

Go for Classe 6 it's almost like a C10, but cheaper (and you won't really notice any difference).

KameoRE said:
Go for Classe 6 it's almost like a C10, but cheaper (and you won't really notice any difference).
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And you won't with a decent Class 2 either!
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Well, i can tell the diff between my shipped in Desire's Samsung 4G Classe 2 and my previous Sandisk 8G Classe 4... My Classe 4 is faster.

I got a 8gb class 4 Kingston.. its fast enough for me...
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I took the risk and tried the 32gb, online for $40au... failed miserably and still scarred by the copious time spent trying to copy, format, reformat, copy... with most ending up in the lost.dir (except for 1.2gb that ended up working).
Since then, have got a 16gb SanDisk. It's only a Class 2, but haven't had any issues with speed whether it be reading or writing. Avi's play in sync... Good bang for the buck.
Mind you, I only went for SanDisk because they were always good to me in the standard SD days, but have heard plenty of good word on Kingston and Lexar.

32gb on ebay are 75% fakes.

I just got my Kingston 16gb Class 10 card. Do you guys think my card reader's speed is maxed out and it might be able to go faster than this?

I'll be getting THIS ONE when they get it back in stock.

Well, just got a Kingston 16Gb class 10 and can't use it, because it's defective .
But I'm not blaming Kingston, it can happen with any brand and I'm gonna exchange it... Hopefully I have a Sandisk 16Gb class 2, a not-very-fast-but-working-SD-card....

Teppic24 said:
I'll be getting THIS ONE when they get it back in stock.
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Is this website reliable for the quality of the card? it will be 100% original?

dorittos said:
Is this website reliable for the quality of the card? it will be 100% original?
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i've ordered that card so will let you know what its like when it arrives

i got mine from ebay (team class6 16gb)
no issues so far

Just to share with you I gotten myself the Toshiba 16GB Class 4 MicroSD in HK about 44USD
A bit on the high side, but the card is made in Japan
Working fine (using A2SD+) till now

dorittos said:
Is this website reliable for the quality of the card? it will be 100% original?
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very respectable web site. selling genuine items

PNY 32GB Class 10 MicroSDHC - $55 shipped [NEW COUPON Oct-11]

@Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...MC-091311-Index-_-FlashMemory-_-20178381-L09D
Use coupon code EMCJKJJ45 to bring it down to $55. Pretty decent price for a class 10 chip from a known manufacturer.
Edit: Varying write benchmarks on Newegg and Amazon. Some are hitting class 10 speeds, some aren't. YMMV.

Awesome! Thanks for 2sharing

Just be careful and make sure its genuine, I have heard a lot of stuff about fake cards claiming to be class 10.
Whereas if you go for a good brand it might actually perform better.
I have a sandisk, 32gb, class 4, and i have 20 gb of music of my sensation, it works perfectly, better then my ipod touch! So I wouldnt pay much attention to the class but more to the quality of the card.
Granted the write speed is slow, took me a long time to get the 20gb of music on, but reading speed is somewhere around 10 to 16 mbps, and thats from a class 4!

This one is legit- got suckered in some ebay buys of fake cards, went ahead and bought this one a while back from NewEgg and never looked back. PNY is a good brand. I use this one currently and have had no issues .

Ordered one...
I put in my order at Newegg this morning. Coupon code worked. Unfortunately, since I live in California, I had to pay sales tax so it cost me $3.99 extra

Yep, I bought this card from newegg. It is legit!

meteor999 said:
Just be careful and make sure its genuine, I have heard a lot of stuff about fake cards claiming to be class 10.
Whereas if you go for a good brand it might actually perform better.
I have a sandisk, 32gb, class 4, and i have 20 gb of music of my sensation, it works perfectly, better then my ipod touch! So I wouldnt pay much attention to the class but more to the quality of the card.
Granted the write speed is slow, took me a long time to get the 20gb of music on, but reading speed is somewhere around 10 to 16 mbps, and thats from a class 4!
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It's from newegg and its pny. Can't get more real than that.
Sent from my Sensation

Because the promo code ends today, there is also at Amazon for 56$ if anyone is interested.
http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Hi-Speed-MicroSDHC-Tablet-P-SDU32G10TEFM1/dp/B0052W534E

they have some class 10 32's at frys for 30$ btw

freco said:
Because the promo code ends today, there is also at Amazon for 56$ if anyone is interested.
http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Hi-Speed-MicroSDHC-Tablet-P-SDU32G10TEFM1/dp/B0052W534E
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They change price back to 69. As soon as newegg's offer ended they changed it.

Thank for shared
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I got the email promotion and bought it as soon as I saw it lol. Got it in the mail yesterday. Noticable space and performance improvement from the stock 8 gb card. Everything that is on the sd card loads much faster now. This card may not be a high end class 10 card but it is that of a high end class 6 card which should be good enough for phone usage. You will be able to record hd with this card just fine. I've been waiting for it to be instock and on sale since the day i have my Sensation lol. Gotta love new egg.

How can i buy this card from Europe ? The Newegg don't send to Europe.
later edit: meantime i bought from Amazon, they send to Europe

Good price, thanks for shared

Unfortunately my stock 8gb card died. Contemplating between this or the 16gb class 10.

This one (DMY 32GB class 10), at this price, is fantastic. I already put it in my Sensation and the phone is flying (like a pig) with 32 GB. My laptop geting jealous. I warmly recommend it !

I have a 16gb PNY in my Sensation and I have to say I am disappointed with the performance of a so called class 10 card. SD Tools reports write speeds of <8MB/s which is no better than the 8GB Kingston class 4 (though seems to be under rated) that come bundled with the Sensation. Alarmingly, that falls below the 10MB/s minimum for a class 10.
Is SD Tools a reliable app?

anlygi said:
I have a 16gb PNY in my Sensation and I have to say I am disappointed with the performance of a so called class 10 card. SD Tools reports write speeds of <8MB/s which is no better than the 8GB Kingston class 4 (though seems to be under rated) that come bundled with the Sensation. Alarmingly, that falls below the 10MB/s minimum for a class 10.
Is SD Tools a reliable app?
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Test the card on a computer instead.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G

Is the rating for read or write? I have a Patriot 16GB C10 that gets 8.6MB write and 19.4MB read.

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Test the card on a computer instead.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
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I think my ancient card reader might hinder things though saying that it's USB 2.0 so will see how it goes thanks.
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Is the rating for read or write? I have a Patriot 16GB C10 that gets 8.6MB write and 19.4MB read.
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Rating is for write speeds. 10MB/s should be minimum, PNY packaging states up to 15MB.

128 GB Sd card recomendations

Ok been a while since I needed one, since my HTC is now gone :crying: I assume class 10 is still what is best? What else should I be watching out for before I buy the wrong thing LOL. Seems like Lexar and Samsuck are he favorites. I plan on using it a lot for pictures and videos on vacation this year and I usually keep music and audiobooks on the phone some movies for the kids when traveling too.

Look at an sandisk brand

I got this one and it's been working great.

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I got this one and it's been working great.
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I saw that one on Best Buy believe it or not for $80. But its out of stock LOL. What is the difference between the Pro and Evo cards in Samsung

jpinks said:
I saw that one on Best Buy believe it or not for $80. But its out of stock LOL. What is the difference between the Pro and Evo cards in Samsung
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Samsung does not have the 128GB Pro out yet so I got the EVO.

Also what is better about the SDXC or SDHC? Does it matter? If its a class 10 card?

Depends on what the transfer rate is pretty much

So SDXC vs SDHC we should just check the transfer rates?

Sdhc n sdxc are just different storage capacity. I think after 32gb it goes to sdxc. Write speed is what determines if a card us good or not. Sandisks 30mbps cards are faster than some other brands 45mbps cards
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Wow you guys are really liking the San Disks. All the other threads had everyone saying they have went to hell on their cards. So I had kinda written them off. I mean I know Kingston cards aren't good I had many of those die back in the days when I needed them before LOL. What would be the min speed on transfer for storing video on one? Like vacation movies etc.

60mb/s should be enough for anything you throw at it

None of the ones I have looked at are 60MB a second. They run from 30 to 48, where could I get a 60mb per second card?

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I got this one and it's been working great.
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Hi,
If it is not too much trouble, can you run the A1 SD Benchmark on Android and post a screenshot? I am debating between getting the Samsung and the Lexar 128GB microSD card.

jpinks said:
None of the ones I have looked at are 60MB a second. They run from 30 to 48, where could I get a 60mb per second card?
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I couldn't find an 60mb/s but either 30 to 48 id try to get the 48 but im a speed freak lol

jpinks said:
None of the ones I have looked at are 60MB a second. They run from 30 to 48, where could I get a 60mb per second card?
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The Lexar 633x is rated for up to 95MBPS
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LOL is it really mandatory to have that speed of card to record HD video? I know I need a big card but can the Note 4 even use the speed of that card?

Lexar
From my experience, Lexar is good, but not their Micro SD cards. I went with the Samsung EVO 128GB card and I have had zero issues with It. As far as SanDisk goes, I have a 32GB SDHC and a 64 GB SDXC. The SDXC card gets noticeably hot when reading/writing lots of data. On my Samsung SDXC, I xfr'd the same file and it took about 10 seconds less (out of 45 seconds, big difference) and didn't get nearly as hot. As far as class goes, A class 10 is good for archival usage but if you plan of recording anything more than 1080p/30, I would use a UHS-1 or 3 card. UHS has a higher minimum transfer rate than C10 does. I have recorded 4K video on my Note 4 directly to the Sammy SDXC for almost a full uninterrupted 45 minutes and had absolutely no problem. Immediately following that, I recorded 1080p/60 and still had no problems. My Logic was, Samsung phone, Samsung card, less chance for something to go wrong.

I purchased this on black friday for $99.99 and been using ever since its great!!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M562LF4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

sandisk 128gb is currently 79.99 at BestBuy but read speed is up to 48mb/s

jpinks said:
Wow you guys are really liking the San Disks. All the other threads had everyone saying they have went to hell on their cards. So I had kinda written them off. I mean I know Kingston cards aren't good I had many of those die back in the days when I needed them before LOL. What would be the min speed on transfer for storing video on one? Like vacation movies etc.
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On your phone recording 4k it writes 6.25 or so mb/s so even getting a 30 mb/s card you'll be fine