32gb Class 4 Card For Panda

[Trip]

I think Ill be going the opposite direction. I'll be buying a small (maybe 4 GB) card but very fast (20 or 30 MB/s).

I hope the eBay stuff works out for you.

Same here.
I'd much rather buy a smaller card with the fastest read/write speeds than buy a bigger card that's too slow. What's the point in having all that space if it takes ages to access the files?
Not to mention the old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket. One disaster with the card and you loose everything

 

[Frogboy]

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Assuming everything goes well with the MK3 board and production starts on the 15th, we should start shipping first batch Pandoras around the end of the month. Once the first batch has shipped, then we will start making plans for the second batch. Hopefully we will be making an announcement in February, but possibly later.

Gibberish, A chance in HELL![/url]


Assuming every thing goes well... Well, I guess we've got a snowballs chance at least. I'm gonna press my luck...come on...no Whammies...and stop!

 

[sparkymark]

I think Ill be going the opposite direction. I'll be buying a small (maybe 4 GB) card but very fast (20 or 30 MB/s).

I hope the eBay stuff works out for you.

Same here.
I'd much rather buy a smaller card with the fastest read/write speeds than buy a bigger card that's too slow. What's the point in having all that space if it takes ages to access the files?
Not to mention the old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket. One disaster with the card and you loose everything


surely most of the files you'll be accessing will be small anyway i.e. roms/mp3s/photos, etc - or streaming (vids, etc) so the speed wouldn't make that much difference (just maybe loading a bunch of them on or transferring back off). Not knocking your quote, just wondering what sort of files to experience slowdown on?

 

[Trip]

I think Ill be going the opposite direction. I'll be buying a small (maybe 4 GB) card but very fast (20 or 30 MB/s).

I hope the eBay stuff works out for you.

Same here.
I'd much rather buy a smaller card with the fastest read/write speeds than buy a bigger card that's too slow. What's the point in having all that space if it takes ages to access the files?
Not to mention the old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket. One disaster with the card and you loose everything


surely most of the files you'll be accessing will be small anyway i.e. roms/mp3s/photos, etc - or streaming (vids, etc) so the speed wouldn't make that much difference (just maybe loading a bunch of them on or transferring back off). Not knocking your quote, just wondering what sort of files to experience slowdown on?

DVD rips mainly but tunes saved in the Flac format are a lot bigger than MP3 or OGG files. The Pandora is going to have some kick ass sound hardware, so I might as well use it to it's full advantage

Playstation 1 backups too

 

[WizardStan]

I think Ill be going the opposite direction. I'll be buying a small (maybe 4 GB) card but very fast (20 or 30 MB/s).

I hope the eBay stuff works out for you.

Same here.
I'd much rather buy a smaller card with the fastest read/write speeds than buy a bigger card that's too slow. What's the point in having all that space if it takes ages to access the files?
Not to mention the old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket. One disaster with the card and you loose everything


surely most of the files you'll be accessing will be small anyway i.e. roms/mp3s/photos, etc - or streaming (vids, etc) so the speed wouldn't make that much difference (just maybe loading a bunch of them on or transferring back off). Not knocking your quote, just wondering what sort of files to experience slowdown on?

DVD rips mainly but tunes saved in the Flac format are a lot bigger than MP3 or OGG files. The Pandora is going to have some kick ass sound hardware, so I might as well use it to it's full advantage

Playstation 1 backups too

A 1x CDROM (or even just a CD player) has a read rate of 153KB/s.
SD cards are measured in MB/s. You can play back raw audio without a hitch, I don't see how FLAC will be a problem on even the slowest of cheap knockoff cards.
A DVD is in the area of about 8-12Mb/s, or 1-1.5BM/s. All but the slowest of the slow cards should have no problem reading your DVD rips, assuming they're just the direct VOB files and you haven't recompressed them in any way.
What else are you using that may cause you to fear load times, because what you've mentioned so far is barely a blip on the radar

 

[benjiro]

Time to bring this thread back to live:

Look like the new term for SD memory cards >= 64GB will be SDXC.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/sdxc-me...0mbps-transfer/

 

[bsamm97]

Time to bring this thread back to live:

Look like the new term for SD memory cards >= 64GB will be SDXC.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/sdxc-me...0mbps-transfer/



Aw damn, you beat me to it.

Link to story: http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/w...c_memory_cards/

 

[WizardStan]

Time to bring this thread back to live:

Look like the new term for SD memory cards >= 64GB will be SDXC.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/07/sdxc-me...0mbps-transfer/



Aw damn, you beat me to it.

Link to story: http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/w...c_memory_cards/


Not a lot of real info in either of those links. I mean, what have they really done to the standard? SDHC was already theoretically capable of 2TB storage, with excess bits simply being left unused by the standard. Is SDXC basically just SDHC with the extra bits being officially used? Or have they done something radically different?
If the former, such large cards should, in theory, be backwards compatible; there's a good chance that a software update would be all that is needed for the Pandora to use such cards without breaking compatibility of existing cards.
If the latter, if the structure is wildly different, it could mean 32 GB is the largest the Pandora will ever hold.
I'm hoping the former, that the only real difference is in software.

 

[hch]

And the theoretical peak bandwidth of 300MB/s - how much if it is supported by pandoras hardware?

 

[Chip]

And the theoretical peak bandwidth of 300MB/s - how much if it is supported by pandoras hardware?
Unknown. The actual specifications haven't been published yet.

 

[Ryuu]

I don't typically trust much of anything on ebay unless I have good reason to. That Kingston card is $130 cheaper then on NewEgg which usually has the best prices on flash memory so I doubt that I'd take the chance. It might end up being someone selling a 16gb card who just so happened to mark it wrong or so they say.

UPDATE: Read original for more info

they were fake ill wait till i have the panda to buy sd's, ill make do with the new 2tb wd my book i got 3 days ago ive already downloaded 250 gigs for of content for the panda alone and its still not even half of what i have in mind :lol: ill use the my book for storage and ill probably get a a few very fast low capacity sd like another poster suggested and just move files back and forth whenever i plan on using them.

 

[CandidStan]

When did the Pandora get a name change to Panda?

 

[Frogboy]

they were fake

Bummer. What did you end up getting?

 

[Ryuu]

they were fake

Bummer. What did you end up getting?


the merchant refunded my money when he realised he recieved fake goods, so i didnt get anything but at the same time i didnt lose anything since he did this before he shipped the items so all good ill just wait till the pandora gets here to buy sd's

 

[WoD]

When did the Pandora get a name change to Panda?

a) We're totally lazy
B) It's a term of endearment!
3) ZOMG CUTE AND CUDDLEY PANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Prometheus]

the merchant refunded my money when he realised he recieved fake goods, so i didnt get anything but at the same time i didnt lose anything since he did this before he shipped the items so all good ill just wait till the pandora gets here to buy sd's

At least you had a good seller who was himself fooled by a bad supplier. Better that than the ones who full well know they're selling fakes, and give you the runaround. Glad to hear you got a refund.

 

[Frogboy]

the merchant refunded my money when he realised he recieved fake goods, so i didnt get anything but at the same time i didnt lose anything since he did this before he shipped the items so all good ill just wait till the pandora gets here to buy sd's

That's cool. Glad you didn't get the shaft on that one.

When did the Pandora get a name change to Panda?

a) We're totally lazy
B) It's a term of endearment!
3) ZOMG CUTE AND CUDDLEY PANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The answer is a). Many of us are programmers after all.

 

[Ryuu]

yup its all cool in about 2-3 weeks we will see a pandora in our hands *hopefully*

mod's please close this