Hacking 4GB slowdown issues

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I'm having slowdown issues with my sandisk class 4, I tried fat16 64kbs and fat32 32kbs. Also, I have a 512mb sandisk and the games run perfectly with it.
Any recomendations?
 
kyojinmaru said:
I'm having slowdown issues with my sandisk class 4, I tried fat16 64kbs and fat32 32kbs. Also, I have a 512mb sandisk and the games run perfectly with it.
Any recomendations?

Have u tried formatting it using SD Formatter?
 
Yes, altough, I forgot to say that formatting in fat16 with 64kbs, I get this message: "The cluster size that exceeds 32kbyte is not supported"
 
twiztidsinz said:
Happens some times.
Even if they are the same brand, same size, same class and have the same package, the two cards could be made in different batches, from different factories and even from different countries.
Cards from China/Taiwan tend to be of lower quality and have slower speeds than those made in Japan and Korea.
twiztidsinz said:
QUOTE(the mario @ Feb 26 2011, 10:37 PM) I've noticed this with all my Pokemon roms on a 4gig SanDisk SDHC card; had no previous problems with the 2gig model.
2GB would be a standard Secure Digital card, the 4GB is a SD High Capacity.
The SDHCs are typically but not always slower than the standard SD cards, just as SDXC will most likely but not always be slower than the SDHC and SD cards.

In most devices, the difference in speed isn't noticeable, Digital cameras only need to write one image at a time and uncompressed video is about 30Mbit/s or 3.75MB/s, so a Class 4 with 4MB/s write speed would be sufficient for almost everything in that aspect.
Those devices typically have more of a need for write speed than read speed, where as the DS makes use of Read and Random Access times more so than a write speed which is used primarily for saving -- and a Class 4 is said to save Pokemon/WarioWare faster than a retail cart.
 
FAT16 formatting cannot be used in your case, as the maximal size of the entire partition would have to be 2,1Gb, unless you're using 64kb clusters, but that's not supported by all devices.

You have to use FAT32, I suggest 32kb clusters. Use the latest SD-Formatter and try again.

If slowdown issues persist, you migh've bought a knock-off card OR your card is malfunctioning. You could get a refund for it.
 

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