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madwab
11-10-2004, 04:09 AM
I have a Kingston 512MB SD card for use in my PDA. I've seen no speed rating for it. Yesterday I got a Kingmax 1GB Platinum card, mostly for the FZ3 I'll be buying soon. It's advertised as 66x (or on its box as 60x). Various reviews translate 60x into approx. either 10MB or 10mb/sec. So - is it B (Bytes) or b (bits)? I ask because...

In practice, it took about 12 minutes to write 250MB of assorted mp3s via a USB2 device to the Kingston card. At 10MB/sec the Kingmax should do that in 25s, or in the real world maybe up to a minute. It took about 8 minutes, i.e. a bit faster than the 'slow' card. How long should I expect it to take to write to a 60x card, approximately - does 8 minutes suggest a problem?

Thanks
Turbosloth
11-10-2004, 06:52 PM
I have a Kingston 512MB SD card for use in my PDA. I've seen no speed rating for it. Yesterday I got a Kingmax 1GB Platinum card, mostly for the FZ3 I'll be buying soon. It's advertised as 66x (or on its box as 60x). Various reviews translate 60x into approx. either 10MB or 10mb/sec. So - is it B (Bytes) or b (bits)? I ask because...

In practice, it took about 12 minutes to write 250MB of assorted mp3s via a USB2 device to the Kingston card. At 10MB/sec the Kingmax should do that in 25s, or in the real world maybe up to a minute. It took about 8 minutes, i.e. a bit faster than the 'slow' card. How long should I expect it to take to write to a 60x card, approximately - does 8 minutes suggest a problem?

Thanks

It's bytes. According to the numbers, it should take around 51s.
60mm
11-10-2004, 07:13 PM
Did you have the card connected to your comp through a USB connection? If so, it may be limited by that. Check if you have USB 1.1 or USB 2.0. 1.1 is horribly slow. If you computer is atleast a couple years new, it should have 2.0
madwab
11-11-2004, 03:42 AM
I'd have said definitely USB2 - the board and ports certainly are, and the device claims to be; but having just repeated the process with another reader, I now get about 6 minutes for the Kingston and 70 seconds for the Kingmax. So the card is fine, I just need to check and maybe return the reader.

Thanks!