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[grandparagon]

I have yet to buy a MiniSD card for the supercard i have ordered and im having trouble finding where to get them from (either in stores or on australian online stores) for a good price.

I want a 2gb MiniSD card, or a 1gb MiniSD card if i can't find a good 2gb one for a good price. Since i am australian, all the prices ill mention in this post are australian dollars.

The biggest MiniSD card i have found so far in a store is a 1gb Sandisk one that was $107, but i think its speed is 30x (its the standard normal sandisk brand of cards).

http://tinyurl.com/jrzwm Here is a link to a 2gb card i found on an australian store that im willing to pay for, but i have no idea whatsoever of its speed and so im worried if that will be what i want.

Anything that is 50x or over and is good priced within australia is good for me. But i am clueless of where to find good cards like this (that are also compatable with the supercard. Im willing to buy off ebay if they are the stores on ebay (the ones that you don't have to bid for, you just buy them for the listed price), but i would feel much more comfortable with a store in australia or an online store in australia.

Sorry if my post isn't ordered the best, im willing to elaborate if needed.

[Frank.45]

Anyone with Sandisk MiniSd (the regular one), can tell how are the games playing? Slowdowns ? Problems?
Thanks

[ivanie]

i bought a Supercard - not mini - for my Gameboy micro it works fine!

the supercard was off ebay from a seller overseas, total 65 dollars, and i had my own SD card (256mb)

ebay is heaps cheap man. sometimes it comes up in australia but really rare.

Although the nes classics dont work, as on any flash cartridge.

[evilsim]

i got my mini SC from ebay.. some random seller with good feedback who accepts paypal. got it in a few days. also bought a 2gb mini sd from ebay for 1/2 of what i pay even from a wholesaler. so far so good. i have noticed some things just dont work eg, random .nds files (homebrew) dont work as they do on SCSD.. (umm example..) (snesDS a file i loaded on SCSD worked but not on mini SD..) overall they seem much the same, i have not had any problems playing any of my own personal backed-up games..  other new homebrews eg ndsmail, slyphIRC etc all work fine on SDSC and mini SCSD.

ebay ebay ebay - dont wait around for au-hackershardware to get it together.

to give u an idea (of how handy ebay is) a SDSC mini is (approx) 70$ AU delivered, 2gb mini SD for about 60$ AU. if you were going to pay 107$ for a 1gb u might want to reconsider. paying in RMB or EU or GBP doesnt matter paypal sorts it all out for you.

[grandparagon]

Some of the cards on ebay do sound very appealing (in price and speed), but the brand names just worry me. Because if its not compatable with the supercard, then i will have a useless MiniSD that i can't do anything with (or it may just be a very slow card that says its faster or something equally negative). I will only go for the "shop" auctions though, but would anyone happen to know if these cards are compatable with the supercard and if the speed is good?

Zynet - 150X Speed or 22.5MB/sec
Sandisk - Up to 8.2MB/sec. read rate and 7.7 MB/sec write rate

Okay, well that was less cards than i thought. But they are the only cards i can find on ebay that i would be willing to pay for and they are basically the same price and they ship cheaply and are both 2gb cards and so im not worried about that stuff.

What im concerned about is the trustworthyness of the Zynet card being compatable with the the Supercard and actually being as fast as it says it is (or at least it being over 60x). If anybody knows anything about the Zynet brand, that would be a great help. But if nobody knows about it and isn't as silly as me, would you happen to know the speed of the sandisk card based on what it said before in relation to the "X speed"? (i've heard 60x and above is good for running games smoothly, so is it above that?)

Thanks for any help everyone.

[Scottyn]

try www.pricespy.com.au

[grandparagon]

Okay, i think i found one to buy (thanks to the above poster ) and i just need some information on it (that i think i have gotten anyway, but i want to verify).

http://www.skycomp.com.au/product_info.php/products_id/19500?osCsid=35ed4ee5cfde619df4890407f072f2bc - that is the card i want to buy and im fine with the price.

Now here is the thing. I am fully unaware of the speed of the card and i dont know its 'x' speed or the actual mbps speed. But i have done a bit of searching and i have noticed this card:

http://www.flash-memory-store.com/sandisk-2gb-mini-secure-digital.html  

Now i don't want to order that card, but that card looks identical to the one i do want to order and the only difference i have noticed is they have a slightly different product code (but further searching has shown they are the same anyway).

Anyway, the card on that site says "Interface Transfer Speed: up to 10MB/sec (max)". So that makes me think that the card i want to order is a card that is 10MB/sec.

Further searching has found that the "SanDisk Extreme III" has a "133 X Write Speed" and a "20 MBps Transfer". Since 10MB/sec is half of 20MB/sec, i tend to believe this means that the Sandisk card i want is approx 66x with a 10MB/sec transfer rate. Im fine and happy with this speed which leads me to one answer i need before i can get the MiniSD card.

Am i correct in thinking the Sandisk card i have shown the links too are infact about 66x speed with a 10MB/sec transfer rate and thus wouldn't be bad to have in my supercard to have good compatability and good speed in playing games?

[gribble]

I bought a Sandisk 1gb Mini SD card from ebay, can't recommend it at all.

It appears to only work properly in FAT32, in FAT I get all sorts of write errors and files with crazy ascii names appear when I go over 300mb.
Would be great if the Supercard actually read fat32, but till some magical patch allows that, I'm screwed.
To top it off, the seller wants to exchange it and have me pay postage. At the moment it's just not worth the effort to send it back and wait all over again. I'm going to buy one in Australia this time.

[grandparagon]

i ended up ordering a sandisk from an australian site (skycomp.com.au). I recommend them for delivery as it was very quick (i ordered sunday night and got it tuesday night and it was interstate delivery) and i am fairly sure this is what i wanted (in speed and compatability).

There is asian writing on the front of the package near the bottom and also under the "mobile" bubble near the top, also on the back on the left. Im fairly sure this is an official sandisk card, and if it is and you want an official sandisk card, then check that site out if you want one still.

[gribble]

Have you written anything to it or formatted it yet? Looks like I eat lunch in the very building Skycomp resides in, so I might give them a go.

Good sign that yours came in packaging anyway, mine certainly didn't (the sd plastic case in an envelope).

I am going to ask...no...demand the ebay seller I got it from to refund my money, no replacement please. They'd just send me another counterfeit.
I am 100% certain mine is totally fake as it exhibits all the symptoms as told by this guy: http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/board/archive/index.php/t-25016.html

Not sure I'll ever buy off ebay again.

Update: Ok, mine is fake. That's the word from Sandisk. I sure learnt my lesson about buying electronics from Hong Kong.  :roll:

[spiggo89]

I bought 2 of these: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7621735736

supercard mini sd hasnt arrived yet so no idea if they compatible or not (pray  pray pray)

i will post here when i get chance to performance check them.  

[mister x]

also check out www.cheapmemory.com.au on the Gold Coast....
although i have to admit i havent bought frm them myself, the A data brand is confirmed to work....$55 for a 150x 1gig SD ...