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SanDisk now shipping out 32GB SD cards

ztmike

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SanDisk ships 32GB microSDHC card for $200 -- Engadget

For $200, and other companies should be shortly after with theirs. I'll probably just pick up the 16GB now that it (should) get a price drop.

But oddly..I just did do a search on Newegg and looks like their charging $77 for the 32GB?
Newegg.com - SanDisk 32GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash Card Model SDSDB-032G-A11 - Flash Memory

It must be something different? 200>77 is a huge difference.


That is a standard SD card, not a micro.
 
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I thought it was the class of the card that determined it's speed, not it's size.

Here's info from Wikipedia: Secure Digital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Speed Class Rating
The Speed Class Rating is the official unit of speed measurement for SD Cards, defined by the SD Association. It is equal to 8 MBit/s, and it measures the minimum write speeds based on "the best fragmented state where no memory unit is occupied":[8]

The following are the ratings of some currently available cards:
Class 2: 16 MBit/s (2 MByte/s)
Class 4: 32 MBit/s (4 MByte/s)
Class 6: 48 MBit/s (6 MByte/s)
 
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Here's info from Wikipedia: Secure Digital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Speed Class Rating
The Speed Class Rating is the official unit of speed measurement for SD Cards, defined by the SD Association. It is equal to 8 MBit/s, and it measures the minimum write speeds based on "the best fragmented state where no memory unit is occupied":[8]

The following are the ratings of some currently available cards:
Class 2: 16 MBit/s (2 MByte/s)
Class 4: 32 MBit/s (4 MByte/s)
Class 6: 48 MBit/s (6 MByte/s)

I'm afraid I'm having trouble deciphering the techno-lingo here. What class number would be fastest? Is there a large difference in price between classes?
 
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I'm afraid I'm having trouble deciphering the techno-lingo here. What class number would be fastest? Is there a large difference in price between classes?

As you go up in class # the read/write speeds increase meaning more data is transferred. I read somewhere that smartphone doesn't really benefit beyond class 2. Class 4 and higher are generally reserved for Video. Someone else might be able to comment on this as well.
 
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