SD Cards (speed related question)
 

does anyone know the standard transfer rate for a micro SD transflash card?

mainly asking because i recently bought one that's supposed to be pretty fast transfer rate : 9 mbps
if i got suckered into buying something that's either not faster or barely faster, oh well... it was only $10 more than the regular one.

different brands different models have different transfer rates

ok, this is the one i bought, the one i wish to compare it to, is this one

According to Sandisk, the Ultra II cards are designed to be faster and of higher quality than the normal ones. They seem to do them for all types of memory card, rather than just MicroSD.

If you feel like you needed the transfer rate, getting that one was probably a good plan. I think it is genuinely capable of more transfer.

Sandisk Extreme is the fastest ones as far as I know

In my experience its more the SD port that you use that affects the speed rather than the cards.

I've been able to run programs from the SD cards on the occationas I've needed to. Winamp and Openoffice running off the same card along with winamp reading the files off the same card as well. And that was all done though the cheepo camera of mine.

My Sandisk is a CompactFlash, but it's also an Ultra II series card like the SD card you linked to. It's rated for 9Mbps as well, and from what I've seen so far, it appears to really work that fast. The camera that I just got (Canon 350D) produces images that range from 2.9MB to 3.3MB each when I shoot in high resolution with low compression, and it'll shoot continuously at about 3fps for 25 to 30 frames before the buffer causes it to lag. When I get my new internal card reader (being shipped right now), I'll run a benchmark on my CF card and see exactly what it's capable of. :)

At any rate, good choice of media. :up:

Especially if your computer is more than a couple years old and doesn't have USB 2. You can get aftermarket cards though.

nah computer is new enough to have USB 2.0 :p
i don't exactly care too much about the speed, but i bet it'll be nice having it, especially the part about being able to store 1GB worth of data on my cellphone (samsung sgh-t809) :D :D

Yes, the 1GB SD cards are good, I have one in my Palm T|5 at the moment.

3 hours of topgear and a couple of albums ontop of a load of books, programs and images, and its still got about 20mb free to use.

I got my card reader today, and I installed it about an hour ago or so. I can't get accurate results on these cards though, because my motherboard doesn't support USB Hi-Speed. :\