Hacking A japananese micro SD..

[ACWWFAN]

I was wondering if itd work with the ak2i...it is a japanese micro sd 2 gb i think and a type 4...will it run good, work, and not make roms laggy?

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Like...Japanese in they are sold in Japan with Japanese on the box? Or manufactured in Japan? Both should work either way.

 

[ACWWFAN]

yeah srry just realized it mispelled it XD. uhmm well i saw them at walmart...english box but a japanese card...is type 4 good??

 

[Maz7006]

2GB Class 4?

You might as well go for a Class 6 4GB; class six being the fastest out there so far.

 

[elixirdream]

type 4 is ok

but if you have a choice why not go for type 6?

by the way, what brand is the card?

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Yah if you saw it at walmart and it said Japan on it, it just means it was manufactured in Japan.

But don't get the ones from China because those are most likely the fakes/clones.

 

[Afrocious]

So a class 2 card is too slow? I just received one in the mail.

 

[Tokiopop]

It's not too slow, but loading times, copy/pasting times etc, and some games might slow down. But very few of them, if any do.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Yah I doubt you'd see too much of a difference.

 

[zero383]

From my experience, you can't judge a card just by it's class. I've seen Class 2 cards from one brand outperform Class 6 cards from another. It's mostly trial and error but stick with the better brands and you'll have no problems. I have a Sandisk Class 2 and it's faster than any of my other Class 4 or 6 cards from other brands in both reading and writing.

 

[Afrocious]

From my experience, you can't judge a card just by it's class. I've seen Class 2 cards from one brand outperform Class 6 cards from another. It's mostly trial and error but stick with the better brands and you'll have no problems. I have a Sandisk Class 2 and it's faster than any of my other Class 4 or 6 cards from other brands in both reading and writing.

Awesome. I have a SanDisk 4 GB Class 2 Micro SDHC card!

 

[zero383]

Forgot to mention that there are speed differences between the same classes of the same brand.

eg. Class 2 for a 4GB will be different than a Class 2 for 8GB (I think the 4GB has faster access times but I forget) Also, there are different versions of Class 2 (at least for Sandisk). The older ones are slower while the newer ones are faster. It can get a bit confusing and this is why you can't say for certain that a particular class will be a certain speed.

 

[elixirdream]

besides that each brand itself also has different performance (write/read speed) on a particular class itself
that is why i would always suggest get well known brand

 

[ACWWFAN]

OK I went and bought one, it is a PNY (I think?) 4gb SDHC type or class 4

 

[TheDarkSeed]

Class counts, not region.

 

[elixirdream]

PNY the brand?
surely never heard of it~!
anyway have fun with your new SD card

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Class counts, not region.

Not necessarily the case, especially with popular brands like Sandisk and Kingston. Know why? Because they are all manufactured in either Taiwan, Japan, and a few other place...but no China. So if you get a Kingston/Sandisk from China then it's a fake and will probably run alot slower than a one from Japan with the same class.

 

[TheDarkSeed]

Class counts, not region.

Not necessarily the case, especially with popular brands like Sandisk and Kingston. Know why? Because they are all manufactured in either Taiwan, Japan, and a few other place...but no China. So if you get a Kingston/Sandisk from China then it's a fake and will probably run alot slower than a one from Japan with the same class.

The more you know.

 

[Agjsdfd]

PNY the brand?
surely never heard of it~!
anyway have fun with your new SD card

PNY is just rebrand of Toshiba/Kingston.

Sure is a good brand!

 

[elixirdream]

thanks for the tip
well if it is a rebrand of toshiba/kingston then is GOOD