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Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

pattyw7 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:46:19 EDT

I am blown away by your article. I mean, I am impressed at your depth of understanding. Trying to understand what I need for today ... and tomorrow.

I have a 4 GB SDHC card (Dane-Electric) and reader which came with my new camera (Panasonic FZ50). My "great" pictures could not be read by my reader in my Belkin 7 port hub or my HP Photosmart C7180 all-in-one. Had to connect the reader directly in my Toshiba Satellite Laptop.

I really need a docking station and/or hub but the docking stations seem to be pricey! Any advice will be so much appreciated. Thanks in advance! Patty

pattyw7

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

JayinToronto — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:08:58 EDT

A local salesperson at the computer store I frequent claimms that a 150x rated non-HC 4G card will be faster thatn a class 6 SDHC card that is not labled as 150x etc. Any experience out there with this claim.

JayinToronto

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

Jumpking04 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:32:07 EDT

I would like an 8gb for my HTC also but with those prices Micro SD's are probably going to be around $150 the first few months.
I was going to upgrade from 512mb to 2gb for my Wing but i was wondering if high capacity micro sd's could be supported by my phone so i just fell back on that for a while.

Jumpking04

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

monkichi — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:18:13 EDT

[www.robgalbraith.com]

Here's an excellent resource for non-SDHC comparison in DSLR's.

monkichi

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

e0ytk — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:00:42 EDT

I use the SanDisk Ultra II in my Pentax ist* DL series camera and it is great to have, since I do lots of weddings I need high capacity cards and it is fast and responsive. It's definatly a good buy.

e0ytk

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

Level4 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:53:02 EDT

@norfizzle: Nope

Level4

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

quilgy — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:32:24 EDT

If anyone is interested in real world SDHC experiences with the Canon TX1 (mentioned in the article), check out this post over at the TX1 Blog.

Users have found that not all cards work well in the camera, and some are much more reliable than others.

[powershot-tx1.blogspot.com]

quilgy

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

gerbick — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:00:24 EDT

Nokia N800's are also SDHC compatible with the newest updates to the OS.

gerbick

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

sprice82 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:57:02 EDT

Works with Treo 680.

sprice82

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

hebrewbacon — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:07:54 EDT

I do know that all of the new Canons are SDHC compatible, such as my SD 800 IS, but true to the article, the 4GB non-HC PNY card I bought which is rated at 150x easily dominates a 4GB Kingston card which is presumably Class 2. The former was cheaper as well -- go figure!

hebrewbacon

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

TorkLugnutz — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:58:54 EDT

@ZSX: 4gb non-HC cards are something of an aberration, according to the wikipedia: "Compatibility with 4 gigabyte and larger SD cards has been poor, due to the SD/MMC protocol using a 32-bit address field denominated in bytes."

SD cards use a Fat12/16 FS, whereas the SDHC cards are based on Fat32, according to the SD Card Association [www.sdcard.org]
It would seem, based on the info on their site, that any card greater than 4gb that isn't classified as SDHC is out of spec.

@xxGenericSNxx: The Wii does not appear to be SDHC compatible.

TorkLugnutz

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

mkrygeri — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:46:55 EDT

I was under the impression that certain phone harware (the TI OMAP850 for instance) could be upgraded to support SDHC in WM5 and WM6.
The company BSQUARE seems to already be on top of this with the SDIO hx stack for Windows Mobile.
[www.bsquare.com]

I so want a 8GB microsd card for my HTC.

mkrygeri

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

ZSX — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:10:12 EDT

Good article, but I'd just like to point out that I have a 4GB SD card (non-HC) in my PDA at the moment, so 4GB is the upper limit of conventional SD, not 2GB.

ZSX

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

strider_mt2k — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:50:29 EDT

We went through all this crap with Sony's Memory Stick years ago, remember?

strider_mt2k

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

blairh — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:48:50 EDT

The Cowon D2 supports SDHC.. I have an 8gb card with 4gb unit, gives me 12gb of solid state. This is a good write-up, cheers Giz :)

blairh

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xxGenericSNxx — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:08:18 EDT

OK so does anyone know if SDHC is compatible with the wii? I'm guessing no because the Wii is relatively low tech but does anyone know?...

xxGenericSNxx

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

norfizzle — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:18:24 EDT

will these cards work on a helio ocean? i'm guessing they won't, but it'd be nice to get 8GB storage on there..

norfizzle

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

DucatiGuy — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:14:29 EDT

I knew all along the extra $$$ I shelled out for the fancy packaged Ultra's were worth it!

DucatiGuy

Among Many Fast SDHC Cards, Only One Is King of Speed

eddiesdguy — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:08:32 EDT

Awesome. Is it available for iPhone yet? jk

eddiesdguy