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While it's true that usb2 isn't the bottleneck when it comes to filling up cards (the speed of the cards memory is), I definitely look forward to usb3 being more commonplace myself, especially when it comes to external 2.5 drives -- real word transfers are about 2.5 times as fast, *big* difference.
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Time to get more music.
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That may be true with read speeds, but write speeds are usually quite different; more often than not, you get what you pay for. It's worth the price difference if you are using the card right. It's too bad that many people don't even notice a difference in write speeds no matter what class card they have, because they are transferring via their devices which often don't use their card's full bandwidth capabilities. This is why using a good card reader can save you a lot of time; you will be able to transfer your music as fast as the card will allow. And it's where an investment in a faster card with faster write speeds can save you the most time -- a 2MB/s class 2 card will take about 3 times as long to fill as a 6MB/s class 6 card.
I think class 2 cards were tolerable enough when it was just 1, 2 and 4gb cards around, but now that 8 & 16gb are really common and 32gb likely to be common just around the corner, speed is lot more important than it used to be. I think I would get nothing but 32gb class 10 micros if they were around now, fill 'em up in about 49 minutes or less....maybe by this time next year...
Originally Posted by Young Spade /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yea waiting to fill the card always sucks :/ In a couple of years when USB 3.0 is the norm we'll get faster transfer speeds |
While it's true that usb2 isn't the bottleneck when it comes to filling up cards (the speed of the cards memory is), I definitely look forward to usb3 being more commonplace myself, especially when it comes to external 2.5 drives -- real word transfers are about 2.5 times as fast, *big* difference.
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Originally Posted by Dragunov-21 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ah, that'd be my problem, I don't have enough music to fill my current 10 gigs... |
Time to get more music.
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Originally Posted by aameerp /img/forum/go_quote.gif Class 6 is worth maybe $5 - $10 on top, as it's not necessarily hugely quicker than Class 2. |
That may be true with read speeds, but write speeds are usually quite different; more often than not, you get what you pay for. It's worth the price difference if you are using the card right. It's too bad that many people don't even notice a difference in write speeds no matter what class card they have, because they are transferring via their devices which often don't use their card's full bandwidth capabilities. This is why using a good card reader can save you a lot of time; you will be able to transfer your music as fast as the card will allow. And it's where an investment in a faster card with faster write speeds can save you the most time -- a 2MB/s class 2 card will take about 3 times as long to fill as a 6MB/s class 6 card.
I think class 2 cards were tolerable enough when it was just 1, 2 and 4gb cards around, but now that 8 & 16gb are really common and 32gb likely to be common just around the corner, speed is lot more important than it used to be. I think I would get nothing but 32gb class 10 micros if they were around now, fill 'em up in about 49 minutes or less....maybe by this time next year...