Best 32GB SDHC card I have used so far.

[Jman]

Just thought I would post this cause I have spent lots of duckits on several different 32GB SDHC cards for my 2Box module. I started with the Transcend 32GB (Blue One 20MB/S) ... then got an off brand that didn't even work... But my very Favorite is the Sandisk Extreme 32GB (30MB/S) card. I have had noticable improvement using this card.

Probably do to the larger size dsnds I have been filling my module with, I began to hear more noticable latency on the Trancend cards. That started me on a quest to get the very best response  that I can on my new sampled kits.... leeding me to the Extreme card. I have also found that some of my sampled dsnds were overkill, I reduced my splash, China, kick and HH transition dsnds from 99 hit samples to 49 or 33 depending on the instruments (a splash, or kick just doesn't need 99 hits IMO) and the resulting dsnds seem to perform equal but are much smaller.

To be fair, when I first got the Transcend 32GB cards I formatted them in Windows .... later learning that was prolly not the greatest idea. But I did go back and wipe em clean and use the right formatting tool to redo them, so did I hinder those cards' performance, not sure .... but they definitely do not perform equivalent to the faster Sandisk Extreme card. If anyone has a chance to compare the 2 I would be interested to see if your results are the same as I have found.

I also went a step further and bought the Sandisk Extreme Pro 32GB card thinking that since it is the fastest (45MB a second) it might be a noticable difference .... It wasn't, as a matter of fact my Extreme cards boot faster by a few seconds than the Extreme Pro, and I can notice no improvement in performance with the Extreme Pro.  So with both the Extreme and the Extreme Pro cards I experience no noticable latency now.

Thought I would put this info out here. Since I already spent handfulls of cash on this quest, maybe the next guy can save a little from my experience .... J

[edcito]

Thanks for sharing your experience.
there's no doubt that sandisk makes the best sd cards out there, but they are priced accordingly....cheapest I can find is $125 whereas the trascend was $75. If you have the money, go for the sandisk, otherwise the trascend is ok I think...

[nonoduweb]

Did you format the sandisk cards too?

[Jman]

Did you format the sandisk cards too?

NO Formatting .... just plugged em into my card reader, added all the files, folders and good to go.

[BURNIN AMBITION]

i got one myself mate
i filled it with 16 gb staff and now i see it takes some time to fully load the software and fucntion the brain...does it happen to you as well?i dont see any lag at least this little i played with the new card. i am doing a test right now to see if it has 30mb read write.
here are  the results. i dont think it is non genuine but here are the results...

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

           Sequential Read :    20.593 MB/s
          Sequential Write :    19.102 MB/s
         Random Read 512KB :    19.542 MB/s
        Random Write 512KB :     4.261 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :     3.400 MB/s [   830.1 IOPS]
   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     1.034 MB/s [   252.4 IOPS]
   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     3.584 MB/s [   875.0 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     0.975 MB/s [   238.1 IOPS]

  Test : 50 MB [H: 44.7% (13.3/29.7 GB)] (x5)
  Date : 2011/07/09 20:16:56
    OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)
 

am i ok mate?

[Jman]

It takes about 10 to 12 Seconds to load everything at startup if I remember right  ..... and my card is about 85% full.

[BURNIN AMBITION]

ah ok so i am fine. thanx

[waynec42]

I've just ordered a 32GB SDHC Class 10 Sandisk card.

Very excited.

[Slap the drummer]

Thanks J - yes I'll save some cash then and give the Extreme Pro a miss I reckon.

[Jman]

Thanks J - yes I'll save some cash then and give the Extreme Pro a miss I reckon.

Hi Slap, Yeah, I sure haven't found any advantage with the Extreme Pro over the Extreme as far as how the kit performs .... and both of my Extreme cards load up a few seconds faster at power up than the Pro.... Maybe a slight advantage with the PC, but not in the module IMO ...

[BURNIN AMBITION]

i once again say i bought the extreme card, not the pro. it takes about 10 seconds to load as i have about 20 giga of stuff in there (mostly drumless tracks) but after it loads it is amazing. no lag at all. a surely great card.just make sure it is genuine. i bought it from ebay very cheaply from hong cong. i can provide the seller if you want. it was in genuine case unoppened etc. and i bought it just for 87 dollars. in greece they sold it for 120 euros. what a steal

[Jman]

i once again say i bought the extreme card, not the pro. it takes about 10 seconds to load as i have about 20 giga of stuff in there (mostly drumless tracks) but after it loads it is amazing. no lag at all. a surely great card.just make sure it is genuine. i bought it from ebay very cheaply from hong cong. i can provide the seller if you want. it was in genuine case unoppened etc. and i bought it just for 87 dollars. in greece they sold it for 120 euros. what a steal

That would be a good link ..... I have bought a couple genuine cards ... plus one off eBay that was a fake... it had the right label, but it was definitely Fake and did not work ... it was a blue card instead of black, that is a pretty big give away right there

[BURNIN AMBITION]

thats the card i bought
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250846897482&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

and here is the link to the seller
http://myworld.ebay.com/kristytsang23/?_trksid=p4340.l2559

his feedback says it all. if you dont see the card listed ask him and he will get it. thats what i did actually

ps. he is not a firend of mine or anything lads. i just say the way i got my card
take care

[Jman]

I've bought 2 of the Sandisk Extreme 32GB cards from this same seller. Cheapest price I could find and both cards are genuine, working perfect. Says he ships to most parts of the world:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SANDISK-32GB-EXTREME-SDHC-CLASS-10-BRAND-NEW-/250893874237?_trksid=p3286.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D2823327506628124822

[fishmonkey]

there are a lot of fake SD cards on eBay, this is a useful guide for the uninitiated:

http://reviews.ebay.com.au/FAKE-SanDisk-Ultra-Secure-Digital-Cards-Exposed_W0QQugidZ10000000001254852