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I am trying to find a 32GB MicroSD card preferably class 6. The only one I have been able to find is class 2 and it's available from Buy.com. I've tried Google, Frys.com, New Egg, etc. Anybody know where I can get one?
Like to have it in hand when I get my Evo in 2 weeks.
Don't know if 32GB class 6 Micro SDHC cards are out there yet. I have a 16GB class 2 Kingston and it out performed my 8GB class 6 Transcend when I did speed tests on it.
AdamLeonard said:
I am trying to find a 32GB MicroSD card preferably class 6. The only one I have been able to find is class 2 and it's available from Buy.com. I've tried Google, Frys.com, New Egg, etc. Anybody know where I can get one?
Like to have it in hand when I get my Evo in 2 weeks.
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the card on best.com is 350...its better off buying a 32gb iphone
Only Class 2 cards are in production at the present time.
I doubt Buy.com or anywhere other than Sandisk has them actually in stock to sell right now, Sandisk haven't even been able to keep up with their own orders.
I wouldn't worry about it being Class 2 too much to be honest, it doesn't really make a difference for in-phone use, only transfer speeds when loading information to the card. I have one in my Desire, works great (also works in my HD2 and X10).
I bought a "ebay rip off" that actually ended up being 31.2GB AFTER the format. It also says class 6, but I haven't tested that yet. I got the card for a whopping $18.88 with free shipping
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I bought a "ebay rip off" that actually ended up being 31.2GB AFTER the format. It also says class 6, but I haven't tested that yet. I got the card for a whopping $18.88 with free shipping
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try putting 30 gb of stuff and see if it runs
Card ran Just fine on the computer! I haven't MAXED the card because I don't have 31.2GBs of stuff to put on it. I did put 10.5GB on it.
EDIT: I have not tested the card on the phone, it seems I have some files on the card from my HD2 phone that were blocking my EVO's access to the card, but I will surely solve this problem. It did read putting on a few folders, maybe 200MB of stuff. The SD & Phone storage setting showed loss of the memory, it also showed 31.2GB of space left when I inserted the card with nothing on it.
You really ought to test it out. Most of the "bogus" cards show up as the correct amount, but typically they take a smaller card (2,4,8, or 16GB assuming), and hack it to look like 32. It'll work great until you try to write more information to it than the card actually holds (so 2,4,8, or 16GB's). If your card holds more than 16GB's, you are golden.
Hello , i will buy 16 or 32 gig card for dhd,
Is phone capable of using class 10 or i should get class 6?
16 or 32Gb. The answer to this is what you want to store on the card. Unlike windows, android stores nearly all apps in the phones memory, so the SD card is really only for photos, documents, music, ebooks and a few files that are needed for some apps. So ask yourself how much data you want to store.
In my opinion, Class 10 will be a waste, as you are limited to how fast the phone can read write to SD card. A Class 4 should be all that is needed, as you will not notice much difference between a Class 4, 6 , 10 as you are talking about read/write speeds in nano seconds.
The other thing to remember is a 32Gb Class 10 card will cost GB£150
A 16Gb Class 4 card will cost around GB£15, 10 times less.
thanks for good answer,
i want to hold quality movies on my sd card and alot of music. hd video recording will be also needed
Does anyone know what is htc desire hd write speed?
is class 6 optimal write speed sd card for it?
32gb is too expensive , i get 16 gb class6.
A class 6 16GB should be fine
malex1 said:
Unlike windows, android stores nearly all apps in the phones memory, so the SD card is really only for photos, documents, music, ebooks and a few files that are needed for some apps.
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Very interesting. So, is that space enough to store your applications (at least a decent amount of applications that a heavy user will require - and I assume that most people here are heavy users) or will it be like my old TyTN that I needed to remove applications in order to install another one that might be more important?
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16 or 32Gb. The answer to this is what you want to store on the card. Unlike windows, android stores nearly all apps in the phones memory, so the SD card is really only for photos, documents, music, ebooks and a few files that are needed for some apps. So ask yourself how much data you want to store.
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sorry to say this, but you are wrong, apps can be stored in the SD
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sorry to say this, but you are wrong, apps can be stored in the SD
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No he is right. There are many apps that can only be stored on the phone itself. It's to the developer of the phone to decide. Until now, there are way more apps that run from then phone memory. He wasn't saying apps can't be stored.
MyMemory.co.uk have a good price on their own class 4 32GB card, have one on the way for my DHD will see how it goes, the postage seems to take a while from Jersey to here.
I've just bought a Kingston Class 4 32Gb micro SDHC - £80, and tested it with h2testw (or whatever it's called!) and got a very respectable 4.72Mb/sec write speed, and 15.7Mb/sec read speed - more than enough for Android. And loads of space for everything!
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I've just bought a Kingston Class 4 32Gb micro SDHC - £80, and tested it with h2testw (or whatever it's called!) and got a very respectable 4.72Mb/sec write speed, and 15.7Mb/sec read speed - more than enough for Android. And loads of space for everything!
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I have a Kingston 8GB Class 4 Card which is about a year old. I get regular write speeds of 8.26 MB/S and reads of 18.1 MB/S.
Not sure if this is an anomaly or what but I would say that class 4 is just fine. Now just need more capacity!
I just bought this kingston 32gb class 4 micro sd card
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180591007001&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
I don't understand why the price difference is so huge between what you guys brought, is it possible that this card is a fake? if it is what do you think i should do next?
MrGarak said:
MyMemory.co.uk have a good price on their own class 4 32GB card, have one on the way for my DHD will see how it goes, the postage seems to take a while from Jersey to here.
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It would be great if you could post your opinion of the card once you've used it.
Anyone using a 32GB SDHC card in their Fascinate? Just asking because there's one on sale on the Newegg Shell Shocker later today (check at 10AM pacific time). Wondering about speeds and such, and whether Class 10 is worth it (seems like if you want to fill such a big card, it'd be nice to have the faster write speeds of Class 10 but I've seen some reports of incompatibilities/problems with C10 devices).
I was just benchmarking the card that came in my Fascinate (which is supposedly Class 2) with SD Tools and I get 5-8MB/s writes and 16-18MB/s reads which is way better than the Class 2 minimums. The one on the shell shocker is a Class 4 so I'm just wondering whether it'll be a downgrade in terms of speed (just because it's rated for significantly lower speeds than what I'm getting with the internal one). I'll probably end up getting it anyway because I've got ~1GB free on my current one and I want to play with an Ubuntu chroot install.
i got the sandisk 32g class 10 it was worth it. Seems to R/W faster but that maybe due to the SD card boost read ahead cache hack. I think mine is set to 512K. Whether its faster or not the extra space is always a plus
Guess ill find out the hard way with ya, bought one as well. Was also wandering about the speed difference. Noticed the one that came with was class 2 and the 32 was class 4, hoped it at least wouldn't be any worse as i am content with the speed of the included sd. Was really surprised to see that it was a class 2.
Oh well just have to wait until it gets here and see.
DO NOT BUY THE Patriot LX Class 10 32GB CARD!!!
After a few months of light usage (i hardly ever connected it to transfer anything, just had HD seasons of breaking bad, chuck, human target and sparta that I never had time to finish watching) I finally hooked it up for maybe the 6th time since i purchased it, and after transferring some music and more shows, i got a "Damaged SD Card" error. For the last month since that occurrence, I have had to reformat the card at least once a week, and set up my music and just a few episodes at a time (because whats the point of putting seasons on if i'll just have to transfer them over again in a few days) consistently. Sure, it moves along at 12MB/s, but certainly not worth the hassle.
This is not an issue that I have heard of with Class 2 or Class 4 32GB micro SDHC cards, and Patriot says they are working with Microsoft and Google to determine the cause of the issue, but Newegg reviews indicate that this is not an isolated incident.
Good luck with the SanDisk card!!!
Mhm, I got the A-Data 32GB class 4 from Newegg. I benchmarked it and it's not as amazing as the built in card (around 5-6MB/s write and 12MB/s read) but it's not super slow. Yeah, I ended up avoiding the Class 10 cards for that reason actually. It's nice to have so much free space now; I think I'm going to try installing Ubuntu in a chroot jail again.
The new PNY class 10 for tablets is now in stock at Newegg, just ordered one with free shipping.
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I got this exact card -- Just arrived yesterday.. I am getting AWFUL performance from it. I mean it performed like 3MB/s write and 8MB/s read.. It only fluxuated by about +-1MB with various SD read_ahead changes.. So disappointed. The worst thing is my phone is NOTICEABLY worse-off with the card in (weird stutters, etc).
Which leads me to something else altogether -- Has anyone noticed that with no SD card in the phone it just flies? I mean even the old SD card which didn't SEEM to give me any stutters was a matter of night and day with it in our out.
jt's CM7 Test Build 10 / EC09 radio / OBT .13 kernel @1400mhz
Old radio was EB01.
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So I hadn't tried the card today with the EC09 radio (why should it make any difference?). It seems to have made a difference. Below are my results (with SD Booster app to change Read Ahead value, and AnTuTu benchmark just doing SD Card IO).
PNY 16GB MicroSDHC P-SDU16G10TEFS2
Read Ahead, AVG Write, AVG Read
4096, 6.4MB/s, 15.4MB/s
2048, 6.5MB/s, 15.4MB/s
1024, 6.5MB/s, 15.5MB/s
512, 6.0MB/s, 16.1MB/s
256, 7.4MB/s, 16.3MB/s
256 (2nd pass to verify), 7.4MB/s, 15.9MB/s
128, 6.9MB/s, 14.8MB/s
FAT32 / 16GB Partition
I hope this helps someone. Still not sure why my write speeds are so slow on Android when I've seen them hanging around 12MB/s in Windows (When using FAT32).
Patriot has a lifetime manufacturer warranty on most of their memory. You should contact them about getting a replacement. I run their RAM on my custom built personal pc. It is super stable. Just hoping to help.
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My 32 gig card doesn't even work in the fascinate at all
It works in my thunderbolt my transformer and my laptop... but no fascinate!!
Its so annyoing and I can't fins the problem
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I've used both the Patriot class 10 32gb card and the wintec 32gb class 10 card. Both have corrupted my data after a few days. Heard the sandisk and the lexar cards are good, so you may want to give them a shot.
Got the scandisk class 4 32gb and it's satisfactory
i was just about to buy a larger card when stumbling onto this post.
Does the read/write speed slow down as the card gets bigger in size?
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i was just about to buy a larger card when stumbling onto this post.
Does the read/write speed slow down as the card gets bigger in size?
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No, but I have found that cheaper/nonbranded cards tend to be slower. Read reviews before buying.
I've got a lexar 32gb class 10. It's absolutely terrible. It takes so long for pictures from the gallery to load after you take a picture for example. Anything using hte SD card is slow as molasses. Oddly every benchmark I throw at it shows high speeds, so I have no idea what is going on with it.
may be could try this (get rid the lba) could help the perfomance and compatibility ?
try read this thread (hope help), I'm not try it my self on my fasci, since my class 10 msd still on it's way send to me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010228
the author test it on motorola defy
Coming from HD2 with class 10 microsd. I had class 10 because android was installed in the sdcard (before the nand hack).
Now, since the sensation is running from internal, is a class 4 32GB good enough?
Coz I won one for $29 bux free shipping lol...
I think the phone comes with a stock 16gb class 2 card.
Edit. Found a thread that asks that question Lol.... Looks like it comes with a class 2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651438
bangsters said:
Coming from HD2 with class 10 microsd. I had class 10 because android was installed in the sdcard (before the nand hack).
Now, since the sensation is running from internal, is a class 4 32GB good enough?
Coz I won one for $29 bux free shipping lol...
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Depending on the usage your Class 4 may actually be better than a Class 10. The SD card class speeds were developed with a narrow focus on sequential write speed because that is that cameras/video cameras need in order to write the information to the card as it is being created by the camera. But when used in a phone you don't really use it in sequential read/write it is more often than not used with random read/write, and often lower class cards perform better in these tasks than higher class cards.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150369
I have a 32gb class 4 card in my phone and its giving me no problems at all.
So in my experience its good to go
As someone who regularly likes to move giant files over, I appreciate the Class 10. If you're just moving music and stuff occasionally...you'll be fine.
Thanks. I was initially looking for a class 10. But since it was a steal at $29 bux with a minute left, I went ahead with the bid. didn't expect to win but I did, so might as well use it with the sensation
Very good programs for testing your memory are:
h2testw_1.4 in order to verify that the XXGB card you bought is actually XXGB
CrystalDiskMark3_0_1b in order to do a benchmark to see what is the real speed of your card. The apps on android are not reliable for these tests.
Once I get the card I'll post my feedback. Coming from a 16GB class10 hopefully I won't notice the difference.
I have a sandisk Micro SD 32Gb class4 for my HTC Sensation. So far so good, I have not found any problem with it . Also I bought it from HTC Showroom in Vietnam with a great deal (about $42 only)
I've been shopping online for a new SD card and was wondering if a Class 10 card is worth the extra money or is the performance difference even noticeable between a 10 and a 4 or a 6? Are there any to avoid? Thanks in advance for input.
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I would settle for a class 6. More importantly, make sure it's not a counterfeit card. Buy a name brand from a reputable seller. Such as SanDisk from like Radio Shack, Amazon, or KMart.
Yeah KMart has some pretty decent selections and prices on name brand cards.
If you are made of cash, let us know if one of the class 6 64GB cards work well in the Charge. http://media.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
I read somewhere that the Charge is fine with 64GB cards, but they are about $200.
I suspect a class 6 card would perform close to a class 10. Most cards perform well over the minimum required class rating under most circumstances anyways. Testing is the only way to truly know.
I use SD Tools from the Market to test my SD card speeds.
I use SD Booster from the Market to change the SD card cache size to improve the read speeds- it won't boost the write speeds.
Bumping this up to see if anyone has tested the 64GB cards yet. There was a killer deal recently for the SanDisk one, so maybe someone grabbed it to test out.