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tori is offline tori
2007-11-10 , 12:22
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I would like to buy an 8GB SD card for the N800,
I wonder whether There are brands that would work better (faster and without any problems),
I would like to compare between Sandisk and Kingston.
Sandisk price is about 100$ and kingston 70$.
Do you have an expierience with those cards,, shall I buy the cheaper one, or it might be a risk?

Thanks
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-11-10 , 13:19
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I've found that SanDisk don't support high speed mode, Kingston do and both are reliable makes. I would avoid the SanDisk and save yourself 30 bucks.
 
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2007-11-10 , 14:27
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I also will buy one, now that the corruption is supposed to be not present anymore.

Yesterday somebody lended me one because he bought it and after 2 days running with windows CE (I think it's on an ASUS), his sdhc was not readable (I can't see the brand because it's currently in my n800..)
So I reformated it with my n800, and now it's perfect. In fact his partition table got eaten.. so I naively realized it's not only nokia that has problems with sdhc or sd..
(he even tried under XP, not readable, but I'm not surprised about microsoft..)
And now I'm using marvelous posts about cloning and kde and .....

How to check the speed? iozone, hdparm? anything? My friend was using hdtach on windows. He also told me there can be huge difference from card to card.

I was about to buy from kingston also. Can somebody recommand any model from them?
 
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2007-11-10 , 20:12
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I have used bonnie to benchmark this 8Gb , it's a PNY bought from amazon (70 euros)
7.5Gb partition formatted with fat32

Code:
/media/mmc1 # bonnie -d /media/mmc1/bonnie/ -u root
Using uid:0, gid:0.
Writing with putc()...done
Writing intelligently...done
Rewriting...done
Reading with getc()...done
Reading intelligently...done
start 'em...done...done...done...
Create files in sequential order...done.
Stat files in sequential order...done.
Delete files in sequential order...done.
Create files in random order...done.
Stat files in random order...done.
Delete files in random order...done.
Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
Nokia-N800-39  300M  1341  70  3175   4  3068   9  1972  97  7773  10 132.5   0
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16    44  96 21040  96   184  96    49  96 +++++ +++   146  89
Nokia-N800-39,300M,1341,70,3175,4,3068,9,1972,97,7773,10,132.5,0,16,44,96,21040,96,184,96,49,96,+++++,+++,146,89
 
tori is offline tori
2007-11-10 , 22:15
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Does anyone know the Toshiba SDHC 8GB X150 , Does it work well with N800 ?
 
I_Dont_Know is offline I_Dont_Know
2007-11-10 , 22:21
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i have 2 of the kingston 8 Gb SDHC cards. they are class 6 cards and work great for music and movies. any other info needed?

Dave
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tori is offline tori
2007-11-10 , 23:59
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yes please,
I read a lot about crashing and frying the sdhc cards. what software version do you exactly use, I prefer to set the exact thing before I fry something,,

(I saw some comments saying the kingston class 6 are slower than the sandisk class 4, and now I found at about the same price of the kingston, toshiba X150, so that makes me wonder what to buy for having the best performences and still staying on the safe side, no need for frying crashing etc')

Thankyou
 
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2007-11-11 , 00:37
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You could try to do the same test with bonnie, it takes about 10 minutes.
This PNY card is not mine, I'll have to give it back next week.
It probably has average or poor performance.
I think I'll buy a Kingston anyway..

The latest firmware is supposed to have solved the corruption problem that appeared sometimes. I have waited for this release before buying.
 
I_Dont_Know is offline I_Dont_Know
2007-11-11 , 02:21
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i am running the latest firmware 38-6 i think. i tryed to install bonnie but it errors when i try to install it.

dave
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2007-11-11 , 03:58
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Originally Posted by I_Dont_Know View Post
i am running the latest firmware 38-6 i think. i tryed to install bonnie but it errors when i try to install it.

dave
yes I forgot something, can only be installed from commandline at the moment, i'll update later
 
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