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Root Memory Card Questions

I have rooted (using CyanogenMod7 rom) and have a partioned 8gb memory card. It's starting to fill up as I get more and more use of out my phone since rooting, so I'm about to buy a 16gb memory card.

few questions...

1. is there a big and noticeable difference between a class 4 and a class 10? I know the technical side of it, but in use, is it a big deal?

2. Does it matter really if it's a "name" brand? The one I'm looking at it is a JoyTech, but the seller has 100% positive ratings, and has sold lots of the same type of card with good feedback

3. I've switched memory cards before, pre-rooting, and it was just a matter of copying data from card to card and off I went. Is it the same post rooting? What about the EXT partition?






Thanks in advance for all your help :)
 
2. Yes it really matters. I may be wrong but someone here had very disappointing results with a cheap card and that make rings a bell

Me! Me! It was me! :p

Yeah, had 2 cards now, both Joyflash, from the same seller (based in Guernsey) - 1st one just plain didn't work, 2nd one seemed to work ok on the pc but was slower than a paralysed sloth in the phone - my class 2 PNY equalled its results. It's now gone funny on the pc too (takes ages to be recognised in the reader) so that's winging its way back as we speak.

I was surprised though, 'cos there's a couple of threads over at xda full of people buying those cards off that person with great results - but not me. Bugger. :(

@SURoot - I have no doubt you're right about the Desire hitting the buffers at a class 6, but round and about I've seen screenshots of a speed measuring app (can't remember the name, sorry) showing up to about 15mb/sec - dodgy app/buffered result/photoshop? :eek:
 
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Write! :eek: There's a screenshot about half way down this thread, and various verbal references to those sort of speeds elsewhere in it - although it's all brought into disrepute by one loon claiming 67mb/sec read... :rolleyes:

People in that thread (and one on another forum, can't remember which one though!) seem happy enough with their cards - I thought it was worth a punt at the price, but to be honest I didn't even get what I paid for. Maybe I was just unlucky - reading reviews on Amazon, there's a proportion of people unhappy for just about every card there is, regardless of brand.

But as a wise man once said, Caveat Emptor. :)
 
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No idea what app that is but there's something up with that.

Here is my just tested class 10, 16GB Kingston

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