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Originally Posted by SeCALPHA1 View Post
haha! I suppose I was a bit vague



Well indeed, I've heard a number of things from mostly idiots claiming "dont buy this cause it broke (they broke it, lol)" or "it wont read anymore, dont buy"


I've heard a lot of thigns about specific companies and how those specific companies' brand is much more cheaply made, or, seemingly enough, their cards in particular tend to not last long/develop serious problems concerning storage, durability (cards splitting open and such) and 'bricking' some, so-to-speak.


I was just curious as to which brands tend to be more reliable than others, or which can load properly (some 2gb as well as 4 and 8, depending on the company/brand, seem to load 25% less than others. Whereas one may load 987mb on a 1gb card, another brand will only load 768mb, but the 768mb card seems to go faster etc..)

get my drift?


I was looking into dual 16gb.. but jesus christ, where have you heard of 32gb? how stable are they?

And there lies my initial concern.. stability.

From what I've done my homework from, either its the brand, which I'm assuming first, that tends to lack in manufacturing finesse (which is my general inquiry to begin with; are there better brands from others, and which), or is it the user who seems to somehow do something wrong to make cards break/die/(in rare cases, I guess, lock the media on the card)

Let me know; any help will be greatly appreciated.


[EDIT]: and also, which highest capacity cards would work best with my N800 as well as have the best available card speed?

How is anyone supposed to respond to you? You say you want facts and not opinion. Well... unless someone has the funds to buy multiple cards at multiple speeds all you are going to get is opinion.

I bought an 8GB Patriot, class 6 card for my N800 @ around $40 and couldn't be happier. Since my existing card readers do not support SDHC (< right there is a big reason why some report bad cards.) I was concerned about the speed to transfer files from my PC to the tablet...
In fact, using the USB cable with this card seemed just as fast as my old USB card reader and a 2GB card I have.