Got my last Saturday and loving life!!! Capacity and performance.
About the same speed as my 16GB SanDisk Ultra
How much did you pay for it?
~$103 @ Amazon free shipping.
i got the same card, and i'm actually thinking it feels slower than my 32gb sandisk class 2 card... the class 2 card tested between class 4 and 6. this lexar seems to read quickly, but the write speed is average at best.
actually.. just tested again after formatting the card within windows using FAT32 and a 32k allocation unit size. It is performing at near class 10 speeds now. i'm writing at 9MB/s and reading at 24MB/s.
prior to the reformat, i believe it was at a 16k allocation unit size.
and what's up with the comment before? dude got a problem with option94? lol
@people who own this card:
Is there no way to properly reformat the card on the phone? Did it perform poorly until reformatted in Windows?
I've been holding off on a new microSDHC card, due to the high rate of knock-offs flooding the market. It's down to this, or the expensive Sandisk. The problem is, it seems like it's hard to get a genuine product, even from Amazon sellers (according to some reviews).
im not sure if the phone properly formats or not. it takes too long for me to transfer all my files back and forth...
but my initial format seemed kinda slow. did tests and it seemed to choke.
reformatted using windows with a larger allocation unit size and it seems to fly now.
i can't vouch for any other sellers but i bought it from amazon (sold BY amazon) with the free super saver shipping. it seems pretty genuine to me. not sure how else i can tell if it's fake or not. it came with a microSDHC reader.
Thanks for the info. I placed my order, and I'm looking forward to having a decent number of space on my phone. Pity it doesn't come back in stock for 2-4 weeks.
what should the allocation unit size (cluster size) be for the stock 8GB sandisk card?
ps3play said:
what should the allocation unit size (cluster size) be for the stock 8GB sandisk card?
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It is up to you choose your preferred allocation unit size when formatting. In simple words, lower allocation unit size = less speed, more space. higher allocation unit size = more speed, less space.
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just came across this one (I know what I'm saving up for)
http://www.expansys.com.au/product.asp?code=126808
heres another one, bit cheaper too i think.
http://www.handit.com/index.php?fuseaction=detail&katid=204&produktid=2955
Here's a better price:
$289.00
http://www.meritline.com/transcend-4gb-150x-secure-digital-sd-card.html
Scary how quickly prices drop these days!
£129.00!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/150X-4GB-ADAT...tcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
hav you try any
no but I've started saving
Splatt! said:
Scary how quickly prices drop these days!
£129.00!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/...........geNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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But with £35 postage costs!!!!! :shock:
Last night I lost a 512 card.
Putting the Jasjar in my pocket, the natural way to put it in is Camera Up, SD Down. the SD Card has pressed on some coinage in the pocket and 1/2 ejected its self and fell out when I took the device out of my pocket. Im glad it wasnt a 2/4gb i lost or id be really pissed! :evil:
Cya
Stot
I think I will be putting a little piece of black electrical tape over the SD card hole... not very pretty, but better than losing 4 GB of data...
Has anyone actually tried a transcend 4 GB SD card on their O2 Exec?
htc universal max sd memory
Is there a limit to the data storage size of the SD card you can use in the universal?
Thanks
I've got a Transcend 4GB SD card running on my MDA Pro. It works like a breeze. 2GB of mp3s, 1.2GB wikipedia, lots of programs.
I have A DATATurbo SD 4GB & it works fine but it gives an error when i set the camera to save to Storage card when i try to take a photo
stot said:
Last night I lost a 512 card.
Putting the Jasjar in my pocket, the natural way to put it in is Camera Up, SD Down. the SD Card has pressed on some coinage in the pocket and 1/2 ejected its self and fell out when I took the device out of my pocket. Im glad it wasnt a 2/4gb i lost or id be really pissed! :evil:
Cya
Stot
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i lost my camera with 1 gb high speed sd card attached.
the card you need
Here it is.I think you maybe need this one And the price is reasonable,you can have a look.:laugh::laugh:
I have a sandisk 16gb memory card and it shows that the internal memory has more storage capacity for the camera than the memory card. I can only take about 80 pictures with the memory card and about 200 with the internal memory. What is wrong here.
What does a PC say when you pop it in? You could try reformatting it.
My USB transfer rate from I plug in my Epic as a Mass Storage device has always been really really slow. Its usually somewhere between 100 KB/sec to 3 MB/sec most of the time under 1 MB. Yet if I pull out the SD card and plug it into a card reader I get 10-16 MB/second easily.
I wonder if anyone else gets this issue and has a solution as it has been a huge nuisance to me.
Its slow for me too. I would guess its the nice USB cord.
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It was not the USB cord as I've checked that regularly. I use to think it was the USB hub on my LCD but that wasn't the case either.
I discovered issue for me was the windows chkdsk. It would occasionally report that my SD card was damaged and needed to be scan which I did however after doing so, my performance went from 3-5 MB/sec on the USB mounting to a crawl 100-300 KB, not to mention extremely slow browsing performance.
I assumed that the formatting chkdsk did something to the FAT tables/partition information in addition to a lack of wear leveling on the standard FAT.
Formatting it through the Windows utility, and through the Phone OS doesn't help. I found this nifty utility:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Which allows me to do a Full Erase/Overwrite of the SDCard which promptly restored the performance of the card back to 3-5 MB.
Now I don't suggest that fix for everyone with SD card issues as doing a full format reduces the number of P/E cycles available (prematurely wearing out your card), but it was the only way for me to restore performance.
Glad you got it working.
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Hi,
I'm writing this in the hope of saving many people from the troubles I've had the past couple days. I was just about to wipe my tablet and sent it for a refund.
So... just to let people know there are many counterfeit Samsung sd cards out there. I searched forums and help pages all over the net and found so many people were having similar problems to me and not knowing how to solve it. For whoever is interested, I'll list the problems my tablet was encountering and then the VERY subtle differences to tell the genuine from the fake.
Issues:
Tablet restarting at random intervals and sometimes continuously.
Apps not downloading correctly, or downloading but failing install.
Random apps disappearing off device and having to re download them (weird thing it only did this to apps I'd paid for).
After viewing files on sd card the card would then register as 0.00Gb and would need to be unmounted and remounted again.
Worked in pc to read and write but not in the tablet.
Worked in other samsung devices, eg phone, reads and writes, doesn't lose data, only in the tablet, which makes you believe it's the tablet at fault.
Deletes random files off the card when mounted.
Will not show up in root folders when trying to save items from dropbox.
Slower transfer speeds (I didn't realize this at first cos I only owned slower sd cards and thought this was normal)
All of these problems stopped the minute I inserted a genuine card,
How to spot the difference:
Extremely subtle difference in the tone of the grey portion of the cardboard packaging.
The genuine packaging has a couple words in shiny gold, while on the counterfeit they are gold but not as shiny.
The genuine packaging is slightly shiny, the counterfeit is more matte.
The actual sd card is identical to the genuine except for the writing is very slightly lighter.
(The packaging design and wording was EXACTLY identical apart from these 4 differences).
The other difference I noticed when opening the package was it was made of multi layered cardboard and the sd card enclosure was attached to the inside by glue. On the counterfeit it was just sandwiched between 2 pieces of thicker cardboard and not stuck to the packaging. Without opening the packaging it's almost impossible to notice this difference.
Many people may already know this info but I hope to help other newbies like me who may be pulling their hair out trying to work out what is wrong with their tablet, when it's the actual sd card and the tablet is fine!
maddy. said:
Hi,
I'm writing this in the hope of saving many people from the troubles I've had the past couple days. I was just about to wipe my tablet and sent it for a refund.
So... just to let people know there are many counterfeit Samsung sd cards out there. I searched forums and help pages all over the net and found so many people were having similar problems to me and not knowing how to solve it. For whoever is interested, I'll list the problems my tablet was encountering and then the VERY subtle differences to tell the genuine from the fake.
Issues:
Tablet restarting at random intervals and sometimes continuously.
Apps not downloading correctly, or downloading but failing install.
Random apps disappearing off device and having to re download them (weird thing it only did this to apps I'd paid for).
After viewing files on sd card the card would then register as 0.00Gb and would need to be unmounted and remounted again.
Worked in pc to read and write but not in the tablet.
Worked in other samsung devices, eg phone, reads and writes, doesn't lose data, only in the tablet, which makes you believe it's the tablet at fault.
Deletes random files off the card when mounted.
Will not show up in root folders when trying to save items from dropbox.
Slower transfer speeds (I didn't realize this at first cos I only owned slower sd cards and thought this was normal)
All of these problems stopped the minute I inserted a genuine card,
How to spot the difference:
Extremely subtle difference in the tone of the grey portion of the cardboard packaging.
The genuine packaging has a couple words in shiny gold, while on the counterfeit they are gold but not as shiny.
The genuine packaging is slightly shiny, the counterfeit is more matte.
The actual sd card is identical to the genuine except for the writing is very slightly lighter.
(The packaging design and wording was EXACTLY identical apart from these 4 differences).
The other difference I noticed when opening the package was it was made of multi layered cardboard and the sd card enclosure was attached to the inside by glue. On the counterfeit it was just sandwiched between 2 pieces of thicker cardboard and not stuck to the packaging. Without opening the packaging it's almost impossible to notice this difference.
Many people may already know this info but I hope to help other newbies like me who may be pulling their hair out trying to work out what is wrong with their tablet, when it's the actual sd card and the tablet is fine!
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Thanks for sharing, glad ya got it all figured out. I was following your other thread and truly bothered me thinking it was the device, glad its not and glad your again a happy camper. Cheers.
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Has anybody experienced issues with microsd cards? I am considering buying a 128gb one for my HTC m8 but I want to make sure they can hold up before I splurge. Not too sure if a small peripheral can hold up to occasional drops. Lemme know if you have had microsd cards fail before
In the typical usage scenario of a phone, sd card failure due to mechanical stresses is not a common problem.
Most sd card failures come from power losses (e.g. on non battery operated devices) and flash wear due to excessive writing.
Seeing as they're incredibly small, they are prone to some problems if you're not gentle with them. Getting a quality brand and decent class/speed certainly helps as well. Sandisk and Transcend have always been my go-to brands.
mojito13 said:
Seeing as they're incredibly small, they are prone to some problems if you're not gentle with them. Getting a quality brand and decent class/speed certainly helps as well. Sandisk and Transcend have always been my go-to brands.
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Sandisk is very prone to cardreader firmwares and excessive writes. To make things worse, their latest series UHS-I 64GB has some manufacturing defects and those cards are returning bricked like crazy. At least here in Poland, but I have heard Germany is also affected.
I was doing a lot of synchronization on those cards (a lot of reads and writes) and I had 3 of those Sandisk UHS-I cards returned after I got my money back. Now I got a Kingston one and after months of writing, writing and even more writing it still works flawlessly.
Maybe I'm just unlucky with Sandisk. Who knows.
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Sandisk is very prone to cardreader firmwares and excessive writes. To make things worse, their latest series UHS-I 64GB has some manufacturing defects and those cards are returning bricked like crazy. At least here in Poland, but I have heard Germany is also affected.
I was doing a lot of synchronization on those cards (a lot of reads and writes) and I had 3 of those Sandisk UHS-I cards returned after I got my money back. Now I got a Kingston one and after months of writing, writing and even more writing it still works flawlessly.
Maybe I'm just unlucky with Sandisk. Who knows.
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Fair enough. I've also used Kingston in the past and never had problems, so to make a long story short - there are a lot of quality storage options out there. Some tend to work for people and some don't. Either way, I try and keep my microSD and SD cards on the smaller size. I hear a lot of complaints about high-capacity cards having problems. I know for my digital camera and GoPro, I don't ever buy above 16GB because the image quality degrades as you get towards the end of a full card. Perhaps the same thing goes on when you're using it in tablets, phones, etc too but not completely sure.