MIcro SD card for San Fran

[Guest myfeetsmell]

Hi guys

Sorry still a bit of a noob in here, but any help would be very much appriciated.

I have been looking for a 16 Gb card for the San Fran and wondered if this one would be any good.

Micro SD

There is also this one available

Micro SD 2

Any other good prices around????

Thanks in advance guys

Cheers

Phil

Edited October 3, 2010 by myfeetsmell

[Guest cmberry20]

Thats the cheapest i've found as well. I would get the Dane-Elec one. I find their memory cards to be really good.

[Guest neologan]

is a class 2 really a good idea? this means it has pretty slow read/writes.

[Guest legolamb]

Same price at Play, reviews suggest it's ok

[Guest]

I got this class 4 one at MyMemory.

Use code BACKFORGOOD to get it for £20.80 delivered.

[Guest norwici]

I got this class 4 one at MyMemory.

Use code BACKFORGOOD to get it for £20.80 delivered.

I have this card and sd card speed test from the market gives 8M write and 10M read with the default 1M buffer. These are the real world results in the SF and I reckon they are pretty decent particularly the relative lack of difference between read and write speeds.

[Guest dwl99]

If you want to use it for apps2sd you'll need a class 6 at least.

[Guest jsplace]

If you want to use it for apps2sd you'll need a class 6 at least.

With all respect thats erm.... rubbish.

Class 4 is absolutely fine for A2SD and in almost all cases faster than the NAND in your phone.

[Guest Simon O]

If you want to use it for apps2sd you'll need a class 6 at least.

You only need Class 6 if you move dalvik-caches to the phone. With the San Francisco there is no need to do this due to the large amount of space on data.

Class 4 is fine for A2SD.

[Guest myfeetsmell]

Thanks for the pointers guys, so basically give these cards a miss and look for a class 4 yeh.

Any ponters towards a bargain

[Guest Simon O]

Thanks for the pointers guys, so basically give these cards a miss and look for a class 4 yeh.

Any ponters towards a bargain

For 16Gb then I'd get a Kingston as they are the cheapest I've seen online.

Personally I'm using an 8Gb Samsung Class 6.

[Guest neologan]

I have this card and sd card speed test from the market gives 8M write and 10M read with the default 1M buffer. These are the real world results in the SF and I reckon they are pretty decent particularly the relative lack of difference between read and write speeds.

The stock 2GB card on the san fran gave me:

4MB write

12MB read

It's a class 2 I think, but acts like a class 4.

Edited October 3, 2010 by neologan

[Guest myfeetsmell]

Just been looking around and found a class 4, what do you guys think of this one

class 4 micro sd

This more like it?

[Guest neologan]

Just been looking around and found a class 4, what do you guys think of this one

class 4 micro sd

This more like it?

that's the one BigTallJon posted about above :) should be fine i think, though he did say read speeds were 10MB where on the stock card they are 12MB on mine, but still, should be fine.

[Guest myfeetsmell]

hi BigTallJon,

Thanks for the heads up on the my memory site mate, i have been trying to find where to enter the promo code you mentioned but only box i can find to enter a code is the gift code box and doesnt work when entered there. Any ideas mate

[Guest dwl99]

With all respect thats erm.... rubbish.

Class 4 is absolutely fine for A2SD and in almost all cases faster than the NAND in your phone.

Fair enough - just going by what I found on this site:

"This is not recommended if using less than a Class 4 SD card, as it may randomly eject and cause all sorts of issues.

A Class 6 card is strongly recommended."

[Guest eyespy (aka Steve)]

hi BigTallJon,

Thanks for the heads up on the my memory site mate, i have been trying to find where to enter the promo code you mentioned but only box i can find to enter a code is the gift code box and doesnt work when entered there. Any ideas mate

The "gift code" box is where I entered BACKFORGOOD a few days ago - worked for me - maybe the code has expired.

There's 4% cash back via quidco although mine didn't track - probably because I used the code.

[Guest myfeetsmell]

The "gift code" box is where I entered BACKFORGOOD a few days ago - worked for me - maybe the code has expired.

There's 4% cash back via quidco although mine didn't track - probably because I used the code.

Just my luck that its expired ha ha, could someone else try and add it to see if its me or to see if its expired

cheers

[Guest neologan]

Just my luck that its expired ha ha, could someone else try and add it to see if its me or to see if its expired

cheers

didn't work for me either. use quidco or top cashback and at least get 4% back, that's an 87p saving, woot! Edited October 3, 2010 by neologan

[Guest jsplace]

Fair enough - just going by what I found on this site:

"This is not recommended if using less than a Class 4 SD card, as it may randomly eject and cause all sorts of issues.

A Class 6 card is strongly recommended."

Pretty sure that that is because at the time CM were recommending ext3 or ext4 as the A2SD partition. System overhead is much less with ext2 and should be quicker.

[Guest oh!dougal]

Strangely the Orange manual ("San Francisco") on Page 125 ("Specifications") quotes the "maximum capacity of memory card" as being just 8gb.

[Guest randal24]

So what happens if you use a class 2 card in one of these devices? Say just for storage of music, pics etc..?

[Guest Tidy_Sammy]

What 'Class' is the 2GB card that comes with the SF? Is there any app I can get to test the speeds of it? I want to upgrade to a 8GB card, going to be using this phone for music too.

[Guest myfeetsmell]

Strangely the Orange manual ("San Francisco") on Page 125 ("Specifications") quotes the "maximum capacity of memory card" as being just 8gb.

can anyone clarify this, has anyone used a 16 or 32gb in the san fran, how many comapnies miss qoute nowdays ha ha.

I think ill hold off till i find out for definate.

[Guest clonmult]

can anyone clarify this, has anyone used a 16 or 32gb in the san fran, how many comapnies miss qoute nowdays ha ha.

I think ill hold off till i find out for definate.

It definitely works with 16gb cards, have seen it working on other in t'office.

I'm just using an older 8gb card thats been round a few phones, N95, N85, Nokia 5800, 5230 .... probably in some of the HTC kit I had a few years back as well ....