coattails said:
Basically, if you get the SanDisk 8GB C2, you will basically be able to play any game without lag.
If you spend some more to get the Transcend card, then you're going to be able to save a couple of minutes of your life when you're copying stuff to your SD and you are future-proof for any future games that are really SD-intensive. However, these SD-intensive games (for instance, Castlevania: PoR) usually end up working on slow SDs anyways through flashcart firmware updates.
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QUOTE(ReverseViceVersa @ Jun 7 2010, 03:48 AM) That's not true. I've used a class 2 8 gig microSD SanDisk and the lag was very well noticeable. I reformated with Panasonic Reformatter and went through all the steps to date, and i still experienced very noticeable lag on some games. Why not pay $20 for an 8gig that's class 6? Shoptemp shipping rates are terrible, btw. Greatforce, you can never be too safe, and I guarantee you'll regret purchasing a class 2 8 gig.
Class 2 cards are fine, Class 6 are more expensive but had just a better write speed ( the minimum write speeds based on "the best fragmented state where no memory unit is occupied")
* Class 2: 16 Mbit/s (2 MB/s)
* Class 4: 32 Mbit/s (4 MB/s)
* Class 6: 48 Mbit/s (6 MB/s)
* Class 10: 80 Mbit/s (10 MB/s)
If you format a SDcard from windows
even with SD Formatter ( except if your card reader/
writer & specific card are in the
compliant list with the supported OS ) you just take a risk of breaking its structure. That's all! ( you may read
How to Damage a FLASH Storage Device ...
Chances are excellent that you will manage to choose a layout that makes the device work extra hard, thus slowing it down and wearing it out faster. )
If a device is SD compliant you don't need Class 6 except for specific uses like video recording depending on high write rate. Since the class rating is readable by devices, they can issue a warning to the user if the inserted card's reported rating falls below the application's minimum requirement.
Any DS game works with A Class 2 card on a good linker. PoR had a bad dump floating. I have no freeze with my own dump on a Class 2 card. Some other games had little problems even from official DS cards because of CPU intensive scenes ( and poor port to DS ). If you need speed to fill your card in less time pay for it but don't tell crap to others like
I guarantee you'll regret purchasing a class 2 8 gig ;-)
My advice will be to be careful with sensitive datas or problematic games on big cards anyway.
Sandisk is an expensive brand ( even if they cut their price from 99$ to 10$ you always got just the minimal rate ). Japanese/Asian Brands are robust and often cheaper for a good read/write speed rate ;-)