SD card question

[Guest ddieter]

I'm interested in ordering an SD card for my new Jamin (which is on it's way).

Is it safe to assume that 4GB cards are not yet on the market (or if they are, they must be pretty expensive).

I've been looking at 2GB SD cards, but ensure as to what to get.

Jet Media has 2GB standard SD cards for £57 and SD Ultra 2 high speed £70.

My first questions are:

1) Is it worth the extra £13 for the high speed card. Will it be that much noticably faster?

2) Has anyone seen better deals than these somewhere else?

Cheers

[Guest fUNKUS]

I have a 2gb Ultra II high speed SD card. I dont personally have another to compare it to but last night i timed it and i seem to get about .5 mb/s whilst copying mpeg3 encoded video over usb 2 using activesync.

Card: Ultra II high speed

Rated at: 0.5 mb/s

Copying: Mpeg 3 encoded Avi

Software: Activesync

Connection: Usb2

PPC: MDA Compact II (HTC \Charmer)

Can someone compare that to a budget SD card for us?

Post your software, hardware and rates

fUNKUS

Edited March 17, 2006 by fUNKUS

[Guest Jasonkruys]

I would suggest that the Devices hardware is going to limit a super fast card (that 0.5mb/sec is probably the hardware's max speed rather than the card), and if you are only going to use activesync to copy, then get the cheap one. If you are going to copy across hundreds of mb's of stuff over using a card reader, get the fast one, as you will use the transfer rate to its extent.

EDIT: Eg an Ultra card (Typically 80x) should reach speeds og up to 12mb/sec.....clearly the phone/activesync is limiting the speed of the transfer by the OP above

Edited February 13, 2006 by Jasonkruys

[Guest fUNKUS]

Thats a good point but does activesync access the disk as fast as the device can?

Then the question becomes

A: How often you copy files across (ie is that where you need speed)

or

B: Do you need the card to be acessed from the device quickly

Yeah, i think...hehehe

fUNKUS