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Best 32Gb Micro SD card for SGS2?

Lol, i know NZtechfreak will probably say all you need is a class 2, sandisk. But personally, any major brand should do, either class 2 or 4 maybe class 6 if you want to future proof your purchase, however you will only really see performance benifits if the card itself gets plugged into a laptop for file transfer via sdhc adapter.

I guess check out Kingston or Crucial as well as Sandisk, maybe samsung.
 
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I have a Class 2 Sandisk card - although its Class 2 its fast enough for encoding and decoding 1080p, which is all you need. I always recommend Sandisk, although other manufacturers are decent too. The mymemory branded one is OK, I got one of those for my partners phone and she's had no worries.

Here is another forum with some posts about cards, and the benchmarks of my Sandisk and Mymemory cards -
Micro SD cards
 
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I have a Class 2 Sandisk card - although its Class 2 its fast enough for encoding and decoding 1080p, which is all you need. I always recommend Sandisk, although other manufacturers are decent too. The mymemory branded one is OK, I got one of those for my partners phone and she's had no worries.

Here is another forum with some posts about cards, and the benchmarks of my Sandisk and Mymemory cards -
Micro SD cards

Thank you, that is very helpful.

I checked out the 32GB SanDisk and the cheapest I found was
 
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I have a Class 2 Sandisk card - although its Class 2 its fast enough for encoding and decoding 1080p, which is all you need. I always recommend Sandisk, although other manufacturers are decent too. The mymemory branded one is OK, I got one of those for my partners phone and she's had no worries.

Here is another forum with some posts about cards, and the benchmarks of my Sandisk and Mymemory cards -
Micro SD cards

When are you going to benchmark the major brands with the same capacity/class cards? That would be interesting :)
 
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Lol, i know NZtechfreak will probably say all you need is a class 2, sandisk. But personally, any major brand should do, either class 2 or 4 maybe class 6 if you want to future proof your purchase, however you will only really see performance benifits if the card itself gets plugged into a laptop for file transfer via sdhc adapter.

I guess check out Kingston or Crucial as well as Sandisk, maybe samsung.

Thanks for this. I have used other cards before on different devices, but when it comes to the processing speed of the SGS2 I was hoping to make sure I didn't fork out X amount of readies for something not able to deal with it.
 
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This may be a silly question, but are microSDHC cards compatible with SGS2? As I'm mostly finding microSDHC cards for sale, but Samsung lists the phone as having only a microSD slot.

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Just looking at some 32gb cards for the GS2 and have come across one for 45 sterling's made by Dane-Elec. It says that it is not *backwards* (WTF) compatible and to make sure the device is SDHC enabled and will accept the card, before buying. Does any one know that it is in fact SDHC enbabled. Also is this a good make?
 
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Just looking at some 32gb cards for the GS2 and have come across one for 45 sterling's made by Dane-Elec. It says that it is not *backwards* (WTF) compatible and to make sure the device is SDHC enabled and will accept the card, before buying. Does any one know that it is in fact SDHC enbabled. Also is this a good make?

If by "it" you mean the SGS2 then yes. I has to be because there is no such thing as a 32GB SD card that is not SDHC. Consequently, any device that accepts a 32GB card of any sort must be compatible with SDHC.

SD cards work in SDHC slots. SDHC card do not necessarily work in SD slots.
 
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If by "it" you mean the SGS2 then yes. I has to be because there is no such thing as a 32GB SD card that is not SDHC. Consequently, any device that accepts a 32GB card of any sort must be compatible with SDHC.

SD cards work in SDHC slots. SDHC card do not necessarily work in SD slots.

As said in other posts, I believe the SD standard goes upto 2gb where as the SDHC standard ranges from 4gb - 32gb cards.
 
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Good heavens! That's some music collection you must have:D

I started my collection in the 90's and over the years it's expanded to cover all the best music over the last 70 years (good music is timeless to the wise mind).

I would say i'd be content with 64gb of space for my music collection on the go but i would like another 16-32gb for videos on top of that also.

If there wasn't a size limit on mobile internet (i still don't see a good reason why it should be as unlimited broadband has been around for years) and media streaming wasn't such a drain on the battery, i wouldn't need to store my favorite media on the phone locally, i could just stream it instead.

Which is why the stupidly named 'Cloud' concept is going to be massive.

So two obstacles need to be over come before smart phones become completely useful to me.

A) mobile providers need to stop being greedy gits and start allowing customers unlimited mobile internet for reasonable prices (3 and Giff Gaff have just started to lead the way in this area)

and

B) new battery technology that provides at least triple the battery life we are currently getting needs to be introduced.

The SG2 has a 1650mAh battery which isn't the largest capacity on offer for a smart phone, that title goes to the Motorola Atrix 4G which has a 1950mAh charge and while that might sound impressive, we haven't actually advanced that far in the last 10 years.

The first mobile phone i ever had back in 2000 was the Nokia 3210 (those were the days) and even that had a battery life of 1250mAh.

So basically (in terms of capacity) over the last 10 years we have advanced a mind blowing 700mAh extra, woot!
 
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The SDHC standard only goes up to 32GB. The next version, SDXC goes way higher (more than 2TB I think) and these are available now in the SD card rather than micro SD form factor.

What I don't know is whether these will work in our phone. I suspect they may not but does anyone know for sure?

Well i've been keeping a close eye on MicroSD technology and their press releases over the last couple of years now (i've been dying to get my hands on a 32gb card since 2006!) and while everything i've read leads me to conclude that the new SDXC cards will not be backwards compatible with the current technology.

Kingston comes along and releases a statement like this:

The Kingmax 64GB microSD XC complies with SD3.0 and Class 6 specifications and is also backwards compatible with the SD2.0 specification, the company said. Kingmax estimates the microSD cards will be able to store around 15,500 MP3 files or around 155,000 JPEG images.
Source:

Kingmax raises microSD storage to 64GB | ZDNet UK

So there is hope after all :D
 
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I can't image using a C2 card in this phone. The C2 8G in my Aino would not keep up with its recording on the 8MP cam it had. Maybe the video is better compressed on this one, we know it has the power to do it, or it could be buffing the video to the ram?? Any way I've decided to stick with the C10 16G card from that I using in the Aino to get smooth recording. If I update to 32G I would look to a quality C8-C10 again as I see no reason to have a fast phone having to wait longer than needed on the SD card.
 
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I can't image using a C2 card in this phone. The C2 8G in my Aino would not keep up with its recording on the 8MP cam it had. Maybe the video is better compressed on this one, we know it has the power to do it, or it could be buffing the video to the ram?? Any way I've decided to stick with the C10 16G card from that I using in the Aino to get smooth recording. If I update to 32G I would look to a quality C8-C10 again as I see no reason to have a fast phone having to wait longer than needed on the SD card.

On NZTechFreak's advice (for which I thank him), I went for a Class 4 card and it is easily fast enough. I know it always seems appealing to have the fastest whatever it is but I don't like wasting my money. My Class 4 and NZTechFreak's Class 2 both work fine. There is no point in buying a card that is faster than the phone can drive and my card can keep up with video capture or play so what would be the point of spending more money on a faster card?
 
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There is no point in buying a card that is faster than the phone can drive and my card can keep up with video capture or play so what would be the point of spending more money on a faster card?

The only advantage really is data transfer via a PC, if you think you'll be doing lots of that, then it may be worth it, if not, then stick with class 2-4.
 
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The only advantage really is data transfer via a PC, if you think you'll be doing lots of that, then it may be worth it, if not, then stick with class 2-4.
I do lots of transfers to/from the PC. That is where most of my media is. Phones still can't match the capacity of a PC, drives in mine are just shy of having 5TB, so I'm often rotating media in and out of my phone to keep it "fresh".

Maybe if I get bored I can still that old C2 in there and do some pic timing test, the retest with the C10. I know that on the Aino there was a big difference in the time between taking a pic and being able to take the next. With a 2.5 year old you need a fast camera or you always miss something. Again though, this is my first venture into Android and I've not had the phone a week yet. Maybe Android uses the ram for caching better than the Aino, I don't know.
 
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I do lots of transfers to/from the PC. That is where most of my media is. Phones still can't match the capacity of a PC, drives in mine are just shy of having 5TB, so I'm often rotating media in and out of my phone to keep it "fresh".

Maybe if I get bored I can still that old C2 in there and do some pic timing test, the retest with the C10. I know that on the Aino there was a big difference in the time between taking a pic and being able to take the next. With a 2.5 year old you need a fast camera or you always miss something. Again though, this is my first venture into Android and I've not had the phone a week yet. Maybe Android uses the ram for caching better than the Aino, I don't know.

As I said, for those who transfer a lot of data, as you do, you will most likely see the benifit of a class 10 card. But some users don't transfer that much, and so can't justify the extra expense.

Going on nztechfreaks info, 1080p video recording to an sd card is about the hardest thing the sd card has to do 'in house' and for that, class 2 is sufficient, apparently.

So it remains, (it seems) that if you intend to combine your phone with a pc for media transfer in a regular basis, then you could well gain from investing in a higher class sd card.
 
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