The Hunt For The Ultimate Sd Price
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Prometheus
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Pleng, you remember correctly. :lol: It's good to see that the prices seem to be making their way back to how they were before - I've noticed some drops with other well-known names, too (for example, Kingston and SanDisk).
borgqueenx
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dont be to negative. like i said, i have a fake card in my psp, and works greatly.Prometheus said:
And i am going to do testing with that app you gave me, i actually gave the app to the seller of the memory card, and after that he said it was genuine. But didnt gave me results. But i still think its fake.
I do think however, that the adata sd card i bought on ebay, is genuine.
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Enverex
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So you gave the guy that sold you a fake card the verification app and expected genuine results? Lol. You need to run the app and see if its even the genuine size.
Prometheus
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I'm really not being negative - I am merely a concerned citizen.borgqueenx said:
I am genuinely concerned when I see folks thinking that getting a real and working piece of flash media on eBay is a matter of "gambling" - it isn't, most are fakes, and I'm almost certain that that's what you'll get, I'm afraid.
I may not be a coder, a musician, much of an artist, or whatever else, but I feel that raising awareness of this stuff is something I can do to help out around here - especially since all of the open handhelds use removable flash media of one sort or another. With the economy as it is, many people will likely think that they can get a bargain on eBay with these things, not knowing that the too-good-to-be-true prices don't come from "cutting out the middleman". I don't like the thought of anyone throwing away hard-earned money on shoddy-quality counterfeits.
Is the fake card in your PSP a card of genuine capacity or not, though? This is not a matter of a false sticker for a well-known brand name being stuck on a no-name card, nor is it a matter of the card working correctly for a while but then suddenly failing, which I understand is what some may take "fake" to mean.
The fakes to which I (frequently :lol: ) refer have been low-level formatted and altered so that they appear to any operating system as being any desirably high number of gigabytes (this number being whatever the source of the fakes has made them appear as, with the commonest at the moment being 16GB, with 32GB also popping up quite a lot in recent times - however, you can even see them advertised in such ridiculous sizes up to 640GB or so, from time to time), whereas in reality the card may only be 2GB or less, and anything stored on it beyond that amount is irreversibly lost.
I'm glad to hear you're going to test the cards, and I wish you the very best of luck.
However, if you do end up with fakes, and assuming you paid for them via PayPal, there are articles out there about dealing with them and their disputes process if you need to get a refund (in fact, there are plenty of them).
Good luck!
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BenScar
What does this do again?
Just spotted this on HotUKDeals.com
Hot UK Deals site
16GB PNY Class 4 SDHC card for £16.99 from Play (so no postage to add).
If you use QuidCo or some other money back scheme you'll even get a discount on that.
Might have to think about a couple of those
Hot UK Deals site
16GB PNY Class 4 SDHC card for £16.99 from Play (so no postage to add).
If you use QuidCo or some other money back scheme you'll even get a discount on that.
Might have to think about a couple of those
Enverex
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BenScar said:Just spotted this on HotUKDeals.com
Hot UK Deals site
16GB PNY Class 4 SDHC card for £16.99 from Play (so no postage to add).
If you use QuidCo or some other money back scheme you'll even get a discount on that.
Might have to think about a couple of those
We already posted direct links to that over the last few pages...
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BenScar
What does this do again?
/me wanders off to look less silly somewhere else
Thanks Enverex
Thanks Enverex
borgqueenx
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Can i test fake cards by only verifying 1000mb of the 16gb with H2testw?
Enverex
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borgqueenx said:
Only if that data is written randomly over the device and not consecutively from the start...
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borgqueenx
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alright. the card is genuineEnverex said:
But this was the a-data card. i already thought it would be genuine.Im expecting my other 32gb sd card today or tommorow.
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Enverex
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borgqueenx said:alright. the card is genuineEnverex said:
Im expecting my other 32gb sd card today or tommorow.
Did you do the full test? afaik it does serial writing rather than random so you need to test the whole thing.
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borgqueenx
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i need to test the whole 16gb?Enverex said:borgqueenx said:alright. the card is genuineEnverex said:
Im expecting my other 32gb sd card today or tommorow.
Did you do the full test? afaik it does serial writing rather than random so you need to test the whole thing.
mmmz alright, then il do that tommorow. It takes 2 hours to test the whole thing :S
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Prometheus
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Assuming you've done them by now, how have the tests turned out?
Note that it can take an extremely long time to test fake flash devices, particularly ones that claim to be large in size, so you may need to leave the test going overnight in some cases.
Note that it can take an extremely long time to test fake flash devices, particularly ones that claim to be large in size, so you may need to leave the test going overnight in some cases.
Enverex
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Slight tangent but still linked as the price query applies to them too:
Does anyone have any evidence that we will see cards -over- 32GB? I know that SDHC by design is capable of 2TB but restricted artificially. 32GB sounds a lot but when you think about all the emulators and such, something bigger would be nicer as you'd have to swap cards less (and less chance of losing them). SDXC isn't out yet and the Pandora wont support it anyway (plus SDXC isn't back/forwards compatible so if the Pandora was SDXC, existing SDHC/SD cards wouldn't work).
Does anyone have any evidence that we will see cards -over- 32GB? I know that SDHC by design is capable of 2TB but restricted artificially. 32GB sounds a lot but when you think about all the emulators and such, something bigger would be nicer as you'd have to swap cards less (and less chance of losing them). SDXC isn't out yet and the Pandora wont support it anyway (plus SDXC isn't back/forwards compatible so if the Pandora was SDXC, existing SDHC/SD cards wouldn't work).
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Enverex said:
What are you talking about?! Of course SDXC devices will be backwards compatible with SDHC cards!
As to the Pandora being able to use SDXC cards, nobody is actually sure yet. There's a possibility that SDXC cards will be readable but only at SDHC speeds. Search the forum for SDXC to find out all the technical info.
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Enverex
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Pleng said:
Well I wasn't reading -this- forum for the technical info, I was reading the released info from the companies working on the new spec. -They- said that SDXC cards would -not- work in SDHC readers and that due to a design change that the SDXC readers would not be able to read SD/HC cards. That spec may be subject to change but that was the last official information I read on the matter.
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tsh
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Re fake cards from ebay - guy at work has just bought 2 '2Gb' mp3 players for £10 each, which only play 4 songs. I can add files to the directory, the size is correct, but the data in the files reads back as 0x00. The risk is genuine!
Googer
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Getting time to resurrecting this given Pandora's release may actually be vaguely in-sight. In fact, I actually bit today when mwave had a one-hour deal on Transcend 32GB class 6 SDHC cards for $79.99 w/ free shipping. Too bad it was limit one per customer. Obviously such a deal was for a very short time-frame and only useful for US customers but I figured I'm unlikely to see better than that for a reliable name-brand card (the 32GB class 6 A-Data SDHC cards that are available in the same vague price range seem to have terrible reliability from reviews I'm seeing on them) before OP's release.
In fact, I actually bit today when mwave had a one-hour deal on Transcend 32GB class 6 SDHC cards for $79.99 w/ free shipping. Too bad it was limit one per customer. Obviously such a deal was for a very short time-frame and only useful for US customers but I figured I'm unlikely to see better than that for a reliable name-brand card (the 32GB class 6 A-Data SDHC cards that are available in the same vague price range seem to have terrible reliability from reviews I'm seeing on them) before OP's release.
borgqueenx
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[ spam ] i found so far for 32 gb is 90 dollar. From a-data brand on ebay.
More deals known already for 32gb?
More deals known already for 32gb?
