Deciding on Micro SDHC Card

Curious if there is a reason you want a class 4 or 6 and not a 10?

 

I've had pretty good success with the Kingstons in the past, but I imagine either will do just fine for you.

 

UPS just dropped off my SanDisk 32GB Class 2 Micro SDHC card. Went with Class 2 because I don't really care about the data transfer rate. I'll only be loading music onto it. So the speed at which it transfers doesn't matter really. Got it from Amazon.com for $77 with free 2 day shipping. Pretty happy with it.

 

so what is the data transfer rate good for? Pardon my noobishness...

 

I dunno... I could see if you're always writing to it and what not... I went Class 2 because I don't care about the write speeds.

A 32GB Micro SDHC card is plenty enough to fit all of my mp3's on it. It will write them all on there ONE time. I will only add music to it when I get new music. It's not that often, but 2MB/sec write time won't kill me.

 

This actually brings up a question for me too. I think it's possible to install apps to the sd card? If so, is it easy or would I have to root it or anything? this will help me decide if I should get a 16 or 32gb sd card.

I did do a little googling on it, but found outdated threads and something about installing the SDK on my computer to set it up or rooting the phone.

This will be my first droid, so I probably won't be rooting it until the newness wears off.

 

Root is easy and ya you can use App2SD to move/run apps from it, go for 32GB card.

 

Nice. Thanks! Time to do some learning!!

 

Can a class 2 record 720p without loss of quality?

 

Its not matter of if it can/can't as alot of factors goes in the actual R/W IOPs which varies and depends on the quality of the card. As some card like SanDisk is superior so even if its rated at class 2 you most likely will get class 4+ all the class rating means is on the worst case the minimun has to meet that requirement.

Then comes the actual fps and pixels per index along with data i/o buffer. I would personally recommend class 4+ for 720p video at least but higher is better for optimal performance.