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Comments on: SanDisk prices up 32GB SDHC memory card

32GB still best value 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 10:49 GMT

The 32GB card may be expensive, but is still the best value per GB.

32GB = £5.50/GB

16GB = £5.63/GB

Finally! 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 11:17 GMT

Thumb Up

Not that I want one of these bad boys in particular, but I'm hoping this will spur Sony to hurry up with their bigger-capacity m2 cards - or at least hopefully when I get the K850i camera-phone's successor, 32gb (or 16gb) cards are wallet-friendly, sub-£50 prices.

So as it stands, way overpriced and it's been a long wait, but hopefully a boot up the memory card's market.

Free with Cornflake packets by Christmas then :-) 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 11:39 GMT

Funky!

If it can do 15MB/sec... 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 12:06 GMT

Unhappy

..then why is it only rated as an SDHC Class 4? There's obviously something about the SDHC class system that I'm not getting yet.

Doesn't explain over inflated SSD HD prices 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 12:13 GMT

Paris Hilton

If these things RRP at around £180, why are 64GB SSD HDU selling for £600 -£800 i.e. 3-4 times the price. I realize there are differences in the technologies however are they 3-4 times more expensive to produce?

PH angle, because she's also a bit overpriced and overrated.

@If it can do 15MB/sec... 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 12:31 GMT

Jobs Horns

Class system is a minimum expected read/write speed of (for example class 4) 4MB/s (on an empty card no-less) whereas the 15MB/s they'vve mentioned in the article is a maximum

Methinks?

Maximum writes? 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 15:05 GMT

Are these still fairly fragile in terms of maximum read/writes? I can see the appeal of using one as swap partition, but how long would it take to die under such durress?

micro-SDHC? 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 16:29 GMT

Happy

Cool! I'm hoping this will herald the arrival of a micro version for my TyTN II :-D

@justin 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 19:26 GMT

speed.

The basic SSD drives are at least twice as fast while the ones from Mtron and the likes are almost 5 times as fast as this card.

The sandisk 1.8" 64gb one says it maxes out at 67mB/s.

This should go into a subnotebook 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 20:03 GMT

Two of these in a RAID-0 configuration would be much cheaper (and smaller, and perhaps lighter) than a 64GB SSD. How long before someone hacks an Eee or MacBook Air with this kit?

it would still be very slow. 

Posted Friday 1st February 2008 20:23 GMT

Think about it, this thing runs at minimum 4MB and at MAX 15. That is really slow (about the same as the max of a USB thumb drive in USB).

It would make the performance sooo poor. Sure its reliable, but at what cost?

I think I will just wait till the very fast ones come down in price.

"32GB the best value" = fuzzy math 

Posted Monday 4th February 2008 18:04 GMT

Tim Spence wrote: "The 32GB card may be expensive, but is still the best value per GB."

32GB = £5.50/GB

16GB = £5.63/GB

Here in the U.S. colonies, we can buy an A-DATA Class 6 16GB card from NewEgg.com for $65. That's £33, or about £2.06/GB.