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where can i get cheap mini sd in the UK?

Hi guys... wheres the cheapest place to buy minisd in the UK? ive looked on ebay and theres someone with a 2gb card for £42 inc postage - is this a good deal?
mark

Its pretty good but alot of the cheap memory on ebay is from China and they (in most cases) are fakes.
Check www.ebuyer.co.uk or www.aria.co.uk for cheap enough prices.

ebuyers an extra £10 - i'll have to get it through the business and not pay the vat on it
Mark

www.7dayshop.com take a few days to deliver but fine

take a look at this one too. if they have offers, they can be very good.
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/

whats the difference between scandisk and non scandisk brands - are they worth the extra money?

Can highly recommend http://www.emartbuy.co.uk/products.php?prodid=70. £21.50 inc VAT & postage for an Adata 1GB High Speed 60x Mini SD Card (60x = very fast writing speeds).
Works fine in my Wizard.
No connection to emartbuy, just a satisfied customer.

I just bought mine on...
www.mobilefun.co.uk. 2GB SanDisk together with a bluetooth gamepad and a dockin station. And please don't call me nerd...

Moby
http://www.mobymemory.com/
with guarantee, special offers and under 50 pounds for 2Gigs
Cheers

Yes mobymemory is great and really good quality and had no problem with 2 cards i have bought from there. Only £43.
Would advise against cheap mini-sd card, quite a few problems reported on the forum of not being recognized on the device and losing data
MobyMemory High-Speed 2GB mini-SD Card.
HIGH SPEED Read - Up to 19mb per sec, Write - 7mb per sec transfers [SecureDigital v1.1 specification].
(Including free SD adapter)
2GB capacity mini-SD (mini Secure Digital) memory card. High quality, high speed SLC (Single layer construction cards), not the MLC cards of other makes.
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List Price: £99.99
Price: £42.99 (£42.99 Inc. VAT)
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Samsung SD Card

I have benchmarked the provided Samsung 8GB microSD card with HD Tune and compared with my other Kingstone 8GB microSD cards. The results showed minor difference in Kingston's favor.
In particular I got those marks:
Samsung (DHD):
Minimum Read: 4.9 MB/s
Maximum Read: 6.4 MB/s
Average: 6.1 MB/s
Access Time: 1.54 ms
Kingston:
Minimum Read: 5.1 MB/s
Maximum Read: 6.3 MB/s
Average: 6.2 MB/s
Access Time: 1.14 ms
It seems that Kingston is slidely faster but not that much to change it.
Has anyone used any other brand (i.e.SanDisk) and noticed significant performance difference?

andreasy said:
I have benchmarked the provided Samsung 8GB microSD card with HD Tune and compared with my other Kingstone 8GB microSD cards. The results showed minor difference in Kingston's favor.
In particular I got those marks:
Samsung (DHD):
Minimum Read: 4.9 MB/s
Maximum Read: 6.4 MB/s
Average: 6.1 MB/s
Access Time: 1.54 ms
Kingston:
Minimum Read: 5.1 MB/s
Maximum Read: 6.3 MB/s
Average: 6.2 MB/s
Access Time: 1.14 ms
It seems that Kingston is slidely faster but not that much to change it.
Has anyone used any other brand (i.e.SanDisk) and noticed significant performance difference?
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which test did you tried?

Here is mine, I have a Samsung plus.
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Is this for the same card provided with DHD?
How did you connect your card to your computer?
I used an SD card adapter and a USB card reader because my laptop's card reader is dead. I knew that there will be differences but I am not trying to determine the exact values but rather to compare between different cards based on the same equipment I have here. So your benchmark could be the same as mine if we used the same devices.

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Is this for the same card provided with DHD?
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Nope, It's a Samsung plus class 6 card.
How did you connect your card to your computer?
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The same way you did.

Kalavere said:
Nope, It's a Samsung plus class 6 card.
The same way you did.
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That's very big difference then. Have you performed comparisons before you choose that one or was that pure luck?

andreasy said:
That's very big difference then. Have you performed comparisons before you choose that one or was that pure luck?
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A class six is a class six, the speed differences between the highend SD card makers is negligible I would have thought. I am fine with my card potentially being 0.3Mbps slower than another card.

I'd be interested to see some write speeds here. Because a cards's class is a measure of the minimum write speed allowed, but not a measure of fastest read/write speeds.

EVO 4G LTE expandable to 64 GB and more

I know there are probably threads about this already BUT most people don't know but micro sdhc devices like the EVO 3d and View and EVO 4g LTE are actually fully compatible with Micro sdxc its Microsoft has a patent on the exFAT format used but all Micro sdxc card but all Mico sdxc can be formated to fat32.
Now in real world terms as shown here http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-3d-accessories/162673-picked-up-64gb-micro-sd-card.html
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all you have to do is insert a 64 gig Micro sdxc card which is selling right now on newegg for 89.99 free shipping click format and now you have 64 gig of external storage on the EVO LTE... It should also be noted that the maximum storage allowed on FAT32 is 2 Terabytes yes TWO TBs how is that for future proof.
this means for 239.99 we could have 80 GB of storage on the device not mentioning the dropbox 25 GB and box 50 GB accounts either

Did you mean to post this in the EVO 4G LTE General forum?

WOW that's some interesting stuff.....BUT I think I'll stick with the 32GB for now, I don't have enough music and stuff to even think about filling a 64GB sdcard...hahaha

trukenx said:
I know there are probably threads about this already BUT most people don't know but micro sdhc devices like the EVO 3d and View and EVO 4g LTE are actually fully compatible with Micro sdxc its Microsoft has a patent on the exFAT format used but all Micro sdxc card but all Mico sdxc can be formated to fat32.
Now in real world terms as shown here http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-3d-accessories/162673-picked-up-64gb-micro-sd-card.html
all you have to do is insert a 64 gig Micro sdxc card which is selling right now on newegg for 89.99 free shipping click format and now you have 64 gig of external storage on the EVO LTE... It should also be noted that the maximum storage allowed on FAT32 is 2 Terabytes yes TWO TBs how is that for future proof.
this means for 239.99 we could have 80 GB of storage on the device not mentioning the dropbox 25 GB and box 50 GB accounts either
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Thanks a lot - very informative post! Good to know that this device is future-proof!

Nice topic and very helpful informations!

I just bought one! Thanks for this information!
Side note:
I wasn't able to find them on newegg.com for 79.99, but bestbuy.com has them for this price as well. After taxes the total came out to be 85.79 with free shipping.

your welcomed Stumbled unto this info too i understand why companies do not advertise this because they actually have to pay Microsoft to use the exFAT format, which i do understand might possible better than FAT32 but then we have FAT 32 devices. its just wrong to try to limit hardware capabilities and growth due to software and legal patents. But as we all know MICROSOFT is very notorious for doing just that and have been doing that for decades

nice
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I wasn't able to find them on newegg.com for 79.99, but bestbuy.com has them for this price as well. After taxes the total came out to be 85.79 with free shipping.[/QUOTE]
fond one from best buy 79.99 free shipping
alsoi giving the rapid price drop i would have to say that a 128 GB might just be around the corner

Can Note 4 and Note Edge work with SanDisk Extreme Plus and Pro?

These two cards have higher speeds. Do they improve the performance of the Note 4 and Note Edge?
At the moment, I am considering to get the Extreme Plus 64GB.

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petercohen said:
These two cards have higher speeds. Do they improve the performance of the Note 4 and Note Edge?
At the moment, I am considering to get the Extreme Plus 64GB.
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NO
no ext memory will improve performance but they can work more efficient. means not to reduce performance
because real performance of phones for Read/Write op is on Internal >> and there s no micro-sd card with IO speed of internal memories.
and Yes they support this micro-sd cards and all microSDHC + microSDXC ( UHS-I/ UHS-II )
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Yes if you often read/write on external sdcard like me: pics, videos, Rom, Docs ... all store on ExtSDcard
No for gerneral apps/games

anybody know when they will have a 128 gb micro sdcard extreme?

oneandroidnut said:
anybody know when they will have a 128 gb micro sdcard extreme?
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Pretty sure they already do
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XdrummerXboy said:
Pretty sure they already do
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Really? I couldn't find

no extreme yet, just the ultra. no word yet. Probably be a months, at least. The good news, Scandisk is making a big push to get bigger cards to the market before anyone else. They just announced, maybe released, at 512GB SD card.

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no extreme yet, just the ultra. no word yet. Probably be a months, at least. The good news, Scandisk is making a big push to get bigger cards to the market before anyone else. They just announced, maybe released, at 512GB SD card.
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Now that is awesome!

Samsung list the Note 4 having SDHC/SHD SD Card microSD (up to 128GB) on the web site now.
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SM-N910TZKETMB

I'm avoiding sandisk SD cards from now on. Both ours for our s3 phones have had to be replaced under lifetime warranty, and on the gopro, the sandisk cards can't keep up with 2k and 4k video recording speeds, so they throttled them with firmware detection. Other SD brands did not have the issue, only sandisk.

Really hope for UHS-1 support for the exynos version.
Any chance of supporting UHS-1 U3? This new SanDisk Extreme Pro 64Gb 95MB/s read and up to 90MB/s write speed looks awesome, or just too much/no support?
The beast: http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/microsd/extremepro-uhs-i/?capacity=64GB
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Nexus 6 has different Internal Memory chipsets

So it seems the Nexus 6 comes with a different hardware for the eMMC and the RAM
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eMMC = embedded Multimedia Card or basically the internal memory
RAM = as most of us know is the memory of the device
I don't have the Nexus 6 yet but these shots i took off two different youtube videos for how to unlock the bootloader and unlike any nexus device before the nexus 6 list the internal hardware with the model and the manufacturer on the bootloader screen
What I'm interested in is the eMMC and as you can see from the pic there is one model comes with eMMC made by Sandisk and the other comes with an eMMC made by Samsung and since the Nexus 6 has an issue with the reading and writing speed of the eMMC, Can you guys check your Nexus 6 which eMMC it come with and let's compare if there is any Difference in performance between SanDisk and Samsung

Very cool. Can't wait to see the speed comparisons.

Mine has Sandisk. 64gb blue in the first batch from Motorola
My SDRAM is Samsung

We should get speed tests up and going for the various types and whether they are encrypted or not.

I bet the 64 are sandisk and the 32 samsung

I have a 64GB variant & my eMMC is neither Samsung nor Sandisk but Hynix. For the DRAM it's Samsung though.

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I bet the 64 are sandisk and the 32 samsung
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Nope.
32GB from ATT here. Sandisk.

I have a 64GB MB from the first shipment of Google Play Store Orders. eMMC is Sandisk, RAM is samsung.

cwalker0906 said:
I bet the 64 are sandisk and the 32 samsung
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In the screens in OP are both 32GB. One is Samsung, the other Sandisk.

I can't see any pattern here it's just random like there is no plan they put whatever available

Ram from Samsung and emmc from SanDisk 32gb midnight blue.
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Ram and eMMC both Samsung (at&t 32gb midnight blue)

slyguy2000 said:
Ram and eMMC both Samsung (at&t 32gb midnight blue)
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Same here.

eMMC: Sandisk (32GB)
RAM: Hynix
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Unencrypted
Read: 264MB/s
Write: 81MB/s

I have a 64 Cloud White from Google Play and both emmc and DRAM are Hynix.

32GB from Sprint. Samsung for both.

eMMC: 64GB Sandisk
DRAM: 3072MB Samsung
Midnight blue direct from Motorola

32 GB Samsung eMMC
Hynix Ram
Blue from Motorola store.
Stock encrypted
66 MB/s sequential read
35 MB/s sequential write
14 mb/s random read
10 MB/s random write.
I am holding out for a stock fix...

64GB MB from moto
eMMC = Sandisk
RAM = Samsung

eMMC: 32GB Samsung
DRAM: 3072MB Samsung
Midnight blue from Sprint