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Old 06-13-2010, 12:49 AM   #1
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I'm looking to get an 8GB card for my 9700 and have pretty much narrowed it down to Sandisk class 2 or Kingston class 4. After very little searching I have found both for $16.

Does anybody have any experience with either of these? Any lag with video?

Also, if anybody has anything good to say about another brand I'd be open to hearing it.

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Old 06-13-2010, 02:16 AM   #2
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I have the sandisk. I have had it and using it for about a year now.
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I've had my Kingston since I got the 8900. Both brands should be OK.
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Both brand will give you about the same performance. The Read performance on pretty much all SD will be more than sufficient for an mobile device.

I use a 8GB SanDisk.
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Both brand will give you about the same performance. The Read performance on pretty much all SD will be more than sufficient for an mobile device.

I use a 8GB SanDisk.
Definitely device and configuration dependent. I had a class 2 card in my 9000 with encryption enabled (by policy). It slowed down the device to the point it was nearly unusable.

Now I will ONLY buy class 6 microSD cards for use in an encrypted device.
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the higher the class the better, that's for sure...i had them all, sandisk, lexar and kingston. My favorite is the kingston 16gb/class 10! awesome card. Lexar 8gb/class 4 was great too.
Sandisk warranty sucks in my opinion - proof of purchase. It is to my understanding, Kingston has less red tape on that issue if required...
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Sandisk warranty sucks in my opinion - proof of purchase.
Even more than that. I had to go out into bright sunlight and use the Super Macro mode on my camera to take a picture of the numbers on the card to PROVE it was not a gray market card. What a pain. Kingston for me from now on.
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wow....that's a great idea, I was getting blind in reading off those tiny numbers! thanks for the tip
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For $16 does it matter. I'd go with the higher class. Both are good brands.
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Definitely device and configuration dependent. I had a class 2 card in my 9000 with encryption enabled (by policy). It slowed down the device to the point it was nearly unusable.
For me wifi transfers to a class II resulted in corrupted files. My admin suspected isolated hardware failure and replaced the card with a new one. Same problems.

The issue only went away with a same make class 4 card. It can now cope with the transfer speed.
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