Prometheus said:
Poem58 said:
I am currently out of work, and the prospects right now are not so good either. which is why this Amazon gift certificate is the important thing. if I didn't have that coming I'd be looking at a 1Gig Micro Sd in adapter as my only card.
Please pardon me for being a tad off-topic, Poem58, but with this in mind, I feel compelled to (as I often do in topics relating to SD Cards

) warn against cards from third-party sellers on Amazon, as
fake/false-capacity cards are now beginning to show up on there in addition to eBay and too-good-to-be-true web-vendors, now. It would be a headache and a pain in the backside to have to sort out such a problem, I suspect.
Anyway, I'd be inclined to go with the three 16GB cards, too, and picked up a similar setup myself back when the prices for cards were lower. (I have two 16GB ones and a couple of 8GB ones, with some other pre-existing cards from my collection being earmarked for trying out other Pandora-compatible OSes

).
Thanks, I hadn't realized the fakes had gotten to places like Amazon. i do believe however that the cards I were looking at were actually sold BY Amazon, but may be a thirs party so I wil investigate further.
Esn said:
Poem58 said:
everyone keeps saying to wait for prices to get lower and they have actually got higher. I could find a 16GB card online for $19 in march, now the lowest is around $29.
I'm not surprised - they got higher because the "boom" got temporarily busted, because of the poor economy. People stopped buying so many cards, companies stopped producing them so quickly, and prices for the remaining stock got higher.
If the economy is starting to recover (as seems to be the case), prices may start going down again...
All signs here point to the economy getting worse, we now have I think a 10% unemployment rate officially which realistically then translates to about 20%, the healthcare bill, raising minimum wage etc. are signs things are beginning to spiral out of control. In my city they just passed a law that they can now fine you if you happen to have your wiper blades on with your headlights off. Who in their right mind is gonna think to flip their lights on in the middle of the day to get some splashed mud or dirt off the windshield!? I have never seen this level of ridiculousness in my entire lifetime. I am afraid the country, as I grew up knowing it, is gone and the present and future are a frightening prospect.
Besides all that I am married, if I don't spend that gift card on my SD cards RIGHT AWAY, well all you married guys will understand. there WILL be some reason, and rather quickly, that I need to let her spend it. (With the promise that I can do it later, but a sorry when I cannot)
White Demon said:
If speed is not the concern, then I would go with the higher amount of storage every time.
You also mentioned this is your only real time to get some SD cards because of cash con strains. So really, you'd be mad NOT to get the 3 16GB cards.
That's what I was thinking. Yeah my dream was to get a 32GB. When I saw the price I was fine with the fact I would have just 1 of the 16GB cards. Now I have a choice. I instantly thought I would just get the 32 until I saw that I could get 3 of the 16's.
So as much as I want to eventually have 2 32's in my Pandora, it was hard to think of any reason why 48GB wouldn't realistically be more than I could ever need. (we know how that works though, so, more than initially I would ever need...lol)
I just wanted to be sure that if I went the 16's route, I wouldn't be making a mistake when it comes to something like future OS's or whatever. I couldn't think of anything I could ever need more than a 16 card for. I was thinking it'd be nice to have everything all on one card. Then I was thinking. If I had some issue and needed to reformat a card, I would have to write EVERYTHING back where if this were the case with 1 of 3 16's, At least some parts of my data would be unaffected. I guess it really comes down to preference. Which is fine.
I do wanna thank you all for your input. It's good to know that there is nothing anyone can think of that makes either decision a problem in any way.
Pleng said:
slaanesh said:
I wouldn't settle for anything but the fastest/best cards. Slow cards will waste more of your time in the future than anything else, and to me time is precious. I'd rather pay a little more and get the best.
Yup waiting 3 seconds for a ROM to load instead of 2 is going to be a real pain in the a**.
Unless your CONSTANTLY swapping data to and from your SD cards, you aren't going to notice the difference between a high speed card and a low speed one.
The way Chip described the speed issue was that the data from the SD card would be transferred from the card to RAM to be executed. According to what he told me a 4MB/s card would be plenty fast and faster cards shouldn't make any difference. Even on the PC side of things I was reading that the 30MB/s Sandisk Ultra III's were only reaching high speeds on a couple of readers and they too topped out near 20MB/s. So I gave up on the whole max speed is important issue.