Hacking Obscure 'OEM' Mini-SD 1GB

[mastermaw]

Has anyone bought a bargain price mini-sd card like this?

http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/shop/OEM-1Gb-160x-...r-pr-18801.html

Speed looks good but no mention of access times. I'm tempted by the price as usually i bundle supercards/kingston memory for friends but here i could save a tenner.

What do we think? Could it be much worse than a vanilla sandisk or kingston?

maw.

 

[Darkforce]

Hmm.. it's a good price so it might just be worth grabbing it and seeing what it's like, though I don't image it being upto that much. Even if the card doesn't have a great access speed, Castlevania and to a tiny extent Animal Crossing are the only games in which slowdown is noticable, or at least in my experience and I have a crappy bootleg Sandisk card which gets a 2 if that on the Castlevania test. I also have a Peak mini-sd which is apparently comparable to a Sandisk Ultra II read/write/delete wise though the access times kinda suck... probably only manages a 3 on the Castlevania test.

So yeah, Castlevania aside, even the slowest of cards are fine for most games, and you could always pick up a faster one later on when prices drop if you need more space or find it isn't fast enough.

 

[Darkspark]

It says its a 160x card which should mean a read write of about

READ SPEED: 24 Mb/s
WRITE SPEED: 20 Mb/s