New SD Card for TT5

CouchPotato · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 08, 2004 Posts: 12

I'm waiting for my upgrade to v5 to come (551XXX still in warehouse) and thought it'd be a good time to get a new SD card. Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast 1Gb SD card, I dont want to end up in the same boat as when I got my 256Mb one when I first bought TT (slow and locked up so had to buy another!)

Thanks in advance

Steve

sland · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2004 Posts: 144

Kingston or Corsair both available from dabs.

Kingston: http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/components/memoryandaccessories/productView.htm?quicklinx=3L22

Corsair: http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/components/memoryandaccessories/productView.htm?quicklinx=3Q14
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dunos · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2005 Posts: 75

I just ordered a Kingston 512MB Elite from some strange company somewhere (xlshop.com or something like that). It is due to be delivered tomorrow or friday. If I remember I will benchmark it in Pocket Mechanic. It has to be faster than the 1GB Bytestor thing I am using at the moment.

dunos · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2005 Posts: 75

Test Program: Pocket Mechanic 1.52
Test Hardware: HP iPAQ h4150
Firmware: 1.10

Settings:

Read test: yes
Write test: yes
Sequential sectors: yes
Random sectors: yes
Sectors/block: 64
Variable: yes
Repeat test: 1

Test Subject: Kingston SD Elite Pro 512MB

Read: 0.66MB/s 4.5X
Write: 0.35MB/s 2.4X

Quantum · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:37 pm Post subject:

Oh man, is your PDA's port only 1 bit?

If it also has 4-bit, get a Sandisk UltraII SD.

dunos · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2005 Posts: 75

I can't find any official specification that says it has a 4bit port. I would be intrested in other peoples card speed tests for this model ipaq. This is so far the fastest card i have had in it.

dunos · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2005 Posts: 75

Continued... With those exact options mentioned above turned on. I can get the card to do a lot faster with different options:

Doing a read only test of random sectors, 128 sectors per block with no variance it will do 8.9x (1.30MB/s) using Pocket Mechanic as the benchmark.

silversurfer · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: post subject

Test Program: Pocket Mechanic 1.52
Test Hardware: HP iPAQ 2210
Firmware: 1.10

Settings:

Read test: yes
Write test: yes
Sequential sectors: yes
Random sectors: yes
Sectors/block: 64
Variable: yes
Repeat test: 1

Test Subject: NYTECH 256MB from lidl supermarket £24.99 10/06/05

Read: 1.05MB/s 7.1X
Write: 0.05MB/s 0.1X

a different size card and differant ipaq i know but may be of use to some body
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silversurfer · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject: post subject

i have also tried on an old sd card that showed 0.19 read time defragmented the card using pocket mechanic and it now reads at 1.47 mb
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