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Fast 4GB+ SD card under $45
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:51 pm
by skier
im looking for the fastest SD card i can find, and so far the best candidate i have is this guy:
SanDisk Extreme 4GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash Card Model SDSDX3-004G-A31
Speed: Up to 30MB/second read/write (200X)
but not a lot of cards have the actual speed even posted, so any help here would be appreciated
my current card is an ADATA 8GB Class 6 turbo which is around 12MB/s write and 19MB/s read while having 4GB on it
the cheaper, or higher capacity the better
Re: Fast 4GB+ SD card under $45
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:32 pm
by dicecca112
Re: Fast 4GB+ SD card under $45
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:19 pm
by skier
hmm im liking the look of the sandisk you posted, cheaper, still 8GB, and users report it being quicker than the patriot, but what about this version:
http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-Extreme-S ... =pd_cp_e_3
users say this one actually gets up to the 30MB/s rated during use with a DSLR and i dont want a card unless it can beat my current class 6(and looking at the numbers it could have been marketed as a class 10) and this is with 3.26GB in use across 436 files:

- ADATA 8GB C6.jpg (112.85 KiB) Viewed 4084 times
(aware both your posted have better write, but also have worse read)
Re: Fast 4GB+ SD card under $45
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:52 am
by skier
went with a Sandisk 8GB Class10 Extreme 30MB/s for
$48 w/ free shipping
went with this because its still 8GB(which is plenty, and the 16GB version is $95) and the class10 Extreme is the newer version (Extreme III C6 is older)
Re: Fast 4GB+ SD card under $45
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:03 pm
by skier
so It came in today!
just ran some ATTO and the read is a fair amount under the rated 30MB/s, but the write is better than anything near it

- ATTO-Sandisk extreme 8GB.jpg (105.76 KiB) Viewed 4053 times
~20MB/s Write ~21MB/s Read, not bad, now for a replacement microdrive for my mp3 player(testing it right now, 2.3MB/s write 5.5MB/s read

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