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Topic: does SD card speed matter?

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FrznTek

Hi I want to buy a bigger SD card for my 3DS XL as I don't think the 4g one it comes with will be big enough.

Does speed matter? Will a class 4 be OK, or should I go for the class 10??

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unrandomsam

Might as well just get one of the tested ones. (Whatever the cheapest is). Be a trivial amount more expensive. It is not worth the hassle.

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shinesprite

I would have to say that it does as well...
Which is why I picked up a 64GB UHS 1 Micro SD card for $35 at Best Buy this past Friday (for my future New 3DS).

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I got a class 10 Samsung, 64GB micro on a black friday sale for £8. Came with adaptor, so could use it in my 3DSXL. My New 3DS arrived on Wednesday and boom, did the transfer and switched the card. Seamless transition. But yeah, class 10 all the way!

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FrznTek

Thanks for the info, Ill go for the class 10 just to be safe....maybe even go for a micro with adapter for if/when I upgrade to the "New" 3DS.

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oninowon

The speed does not matter when dealing with a SD card. The class system is only important when you are taking pictures in motion.

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M0rdresh

oninowon wrote:

The speed does not matter when dealing with a SD card. The class system is only important when you are taking pictures in motion.

This is not true. The speed of the SD card does matter for content installed on the SD. With much faster read and write speeds your gaming loading and other operations within a game will be faster.

Edited on by M0rdresh

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khadafi2999

SeVok wrote:

oninowon wrote:

The speed does not matter when dealing with a SD card. The class system is only important when you are taking pictures in motion.

This is not true. The speed of the SD card does matter for content installed on the SD. With much faster read and write speeds your gaming loading and other operations within a game will be faster.

agreed, you should use class 10 microsd from best brands, i use adata, my fav brand for microsd, usb drive and external drive.

ADATA Micro SDHC Card 32GB Class 10 US$ 16.99
http://www.play-asia.com/adata-micro-sdhc-card-32gb-class-10-...

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Wh- I didn't even know SD cards came in different classes, and I thought the 3DS couldn't handle any more than 32 GB! The more you know I guess!

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FrznTek

TeeJay wrote:

Wh- I didn't even know SD cards came in different classes, and I thought the 3DS couldn't handle any more than 32 GB! The more you know I guess!

The class rating refers to the minimum speed the card will go down to. A class 10 will at minimum transfer files at 10MB/s (10 Megabytes per second) class 4 = 4MB/s, etc.

I originally started this thread because in the case of the PS3 it comes with a 5400 RPM hard drive, and a faster hard drive doesn't help it, so the speed in that case doesn't matter. (the 7200 RPM drive in fact is worse do to the extra heat it generates.)

I wound up buying a "Patriot Signature Series 32GB microSDHC Flash Card Model PSF32GMCSHC10BK - OEM" the deal I got at newegg was just too good to pass up! will be ~ $9 after the $5 MIR!

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M0rdresh

A faster hard drive in a PS3 does help, try comparing load times between a PS3 with a 5400rpm hard drive and a solid state drive. This of course for games installed on the drive or Blu-ray games that cache heavily (which a lot do). It all depends what you want and how much you are willing to pay, but don't spray around nonsense like that.

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oninowon

[quote=oninowon]

khadafi2999 wrote:

SeVok wrote:

The speed does not matter when dealing with a SD card. The class system is only important when you are taking pictures in motion.

This is not true. The speed of the SD card does matter for content installed on the SD. With much faster read and write speeds your gaming loading and other operations within a game will be faster.

Again, the speed refers to managing photos and videos. You guys just fell in line with the myth and did not do your own research like I did. All you have to do is google it and you'll see it for yourselves.

Having said that, there are so many sales going on with SD cards that the price between class speeds of 6 (I think that is the norm) and 10 is negligible. The more important question should be what brand is good for the 3DS since some brands work better on the 3DS than others.

Edited on by oninowon

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khadafi2999

[quote=SeVok]

oninowon wrote:

oninowon wrote:

khadafi2999 wrote:

The speed does not matter when dealing with a SD card. The class system is only important when you are taking pictures in motion.

This is not true. The speed of the SD card does matter for content installed on the SD. With much faster read and write speeds your gaming loading and other operations within a game will be faster.

Again, the speed refers to managing photos and videos. You guys just fell in line with the myth and did not do your own research like I did. All you have to do is google it and you'll see it for yourselves.

Having said that, there are so many sales going on with SD cards that the price between class speeds of 6 (I think that is the norm) and 10 is negligible. The more important question should be what brand is good for the 3DS since some brands work better on the 3DS than others.

yes because some brand use good quality component while others use cheap component. adata is one of the biggest manufacturer in the world. i got myself 4 adata usb drive, 1 hard drive, and 1 micro sd, and they perform really good compared to kingston, sandisk whatsoever. and yeah i dont like kingston, bought from them once and i learnt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADATA

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GreenX1

Just got a Micro SD card with an adapter to use it on the 3DS, and I don't think the speed matters much.

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khadafi2999

GreenX1 wrote:

Just got a Micro SD card with an adapter to use it on the 3DS, and I don't think the speed matters much.

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is there a difference in micro sd card adapters?

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JaxonH

[quote=SeVok]

oninowon wrote:

oninowon wrote:

khadafi2999 wrote:

The speed does not matter when dealing with a SD card. The class system is only important when you are taking pictures in motion.

This is not true. The speed of the SD card does matter for content installed on the SD. With much faster read and write speeds your gaming loading and other operations within a game will be faster.

Again, the speed refers to managing photos and videos. You guys just fell in line with the myth and did not do your own research like I did. All you have to do is google it and you'll see it for yourselves.

Having said that, there are so many sales going on with SD cards that the price between class speeds of 6 (I think that is the norm) and 10 is negligible. The more important question should be what brand is good for the 3DS since some brands work better on the 3DS than others.

The read and write speeds affect whatever it's being use for, which could be photos, sure, it could also just be reading and writing data to a PC. When they benchmark read/write speeds they do so with a PC, not taking photos. They may market certain cards for photographers and slap a rating on it for them but that doesn't mean the cards are only meant for that (obviously).

It stands to reason that a faster card will yield better performance. The question is, by how much. Is it negligible to the point you can't even notice? Is it a half second faster loading? Or can it be very substantial as some here have suggested?

I believe it can be substantial. Copy data to PC with a slow read/write card and it takes like an hour for 1gb. Use a fast card and it takes like 60 seconds. Now translate that to the 3DS, where the data on SD is constantly being read from and written to.

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SuperWiiU

JaxonH wrote:

It stands to reason that a faster card will yield better performance. The question is, by how much. Is it negligible to the point you can't even notice? Is it a half second faster loading? Or can it be very substantial as some here have suggested?

I believe it can be substantial. Copy data to PC with a slow read/write card and it takes like an hour for 1gb. Use a fast card and it takes like 60 seconds. Now translate that to the 3DS, where the data on SD is constantly being read from and written to.

It all depends on how fast the 3DS can read/write from/to an SD card. As long as we don't know we can't really say anything useful about it.

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