Hacking Transcend class 4 8GB - worth it?

[gosp]

I've got an 8GB card, And I filled it up rather fast, actually.

5.6 GB Rom and Homebrew stuff

2 GB Music. (My full library is more akin to 20. I hate having to choose.)

 

[AXYPB]

Back when I still had a 1 GB card, no less than 800 MB of it was filled with games at any time. Now that I have a 4 GB card, at least 2 GB of it is filled with DPG files.

 

[tedmg09130913]

There are reports the adata card has faster random read access than the transcend. And that it really matters more than the raw speed.

 

[esung]

if you want fast speed, go for class 6 instead of class 4. label it class 4 certainly means the card can't attain 6MB/s speed for the class 6 rating. however certain high speed class 6 cards can have much faster I/O speed, since there isn't any high rating then class 6 on the SDHC rating. my SDHC microSD has a minimum 10MB/s transfer speed, on average it's 15MB/s (only dip to 10MB/s when switching chips for a moment).

another thing to consider is, cheap flash cards certainly means it's MLC flash, which is slower then SLC. SLC will give you a lot of speed and erase cycle, but cost is really high(3-4 times of MLC), you'd only see SLC in performance cards or Industrial grade cards.

 

[zektor]

Just to follow up:

I purchased the exact card in question and received it yesterday. It works great. I have not experienced any slowdown at all using it on the CycloDS, and I have LOADED it up with over 100 nds titles and about the same amount in GBA games. Great card at a killer price!