miniSD card speeds

[Guest killerost]

Hi,

I've seen different manufacturers having different speeds on their miniSD cards. But is it the miniSD card or my phone (a HTC tornado) that decides the transfer speed between the two?

Will it be a difference between a "regular" and a "hi-speed" miniSD card?

[Guest genaldar]

My guess is speed of the sd, minisd or microsd card doesn't make a lot of difference in phones. There is probably a maximum supported transfer speed for each phone, but I don't know where that spec would even be available (of course it could be redily available and I just never noticed). Besides even if the phone supports a really high speed I don't think you would even be able to tell considering the most speed intensive thing most of us do with the media card is load it with files and aren't most, if not all, of the smartphones on the market limited to usb 1.1? But I doubt when playing back a video you would see a difference between 120x and 60x or even 30x.

Edited July 8, 2006 by genaldar

[Guest mandt]

As genaldar says it makes no difference in the phone, but it certainly does if you use a card reader regularly. I recently upgradd from a cheapo 512MB to a 1GB with a nice fast read/write speed. I remember it took almost 30 mins to copy everything off the old card but half that when writing to the new one :)

[Guest peekie]

Its mainly better a faster sd for photo cameras , the only + for phone users would be the speed to copy data from the computer to sd card :)

[Guest killerost]

Thanks for your answers.. they confirmed my theory :)