EZ-Flash USA Forum

PNY safety=4, fastest=3

Kingmax safety=8, fastest=6

Sandisk safety=12, fastest=10

Kingston safety=7 fastest=5

this only for suggestion, not the permanent setting.



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Thanks for the information.

I'm curious about the Sandisk microSD card you're using. I'm using a standard Sandisk microSD and I can easily use a speed setting of 7. I've tested over 30 games with this speed setting and none have failed. It is not an ultra or high speed card.

I have also added the information to the Wiki here.

Which brand operates the fastest? I have an ultra II sandisk in my ez4ld and I'm looking for a suggestion for my ez5 ordered from gameyeeah.

Thx

Just wondering....
If the number is highter it is better right ?
or Lower number = better ?

No.

The higher the number, the slower your memory card is.

ok here's all the data I could get about microsd cards for ezV, ptrice v. Manu indicated performance:

brand read write
san u2 10 9
kingston 8.8 6.5
san van 1.2 1.2
toshiba 3 3
ritex 17.25 17.25
kingmax 12.5 12.5
pny* 9 9

*not from manu. ebay seller personal testing with 1 gb full size pny sd card

assuming windirt's chart sandisk is vanilla. Ezv speed settings corolate with manu. chart except for kingmax which should read fastest, unless pny's speed from ebay tester isn't accurate.

I'm gonna pick up a ritek 1g microsd from supermediastore.com $35 shipped.

-han

I'm currently using 5 for my Kingston and I still lag during DoS intro..

Humm I would more see it like this : maybe PNY have less security of some sort.... so that mean that (don't ask me why) ezflash5 can "access" is more easily which mean they are more compatible....

I have just been testing transfer speed to/from my computer with my vanilla sandisk 256MB micro-sd card that I purchased 2 weeks ago.

These are my results:
read = 4.70MB/s
write = 2.55MB/s

I wonder if its the same with the larger Sandisk 1GB micro-sd or if they are slower. They dont seem to give any transfer speeds on their website etc....

Shizelo

What did you use to test the speed ?

I have 2 x Sandisk (512 & 1gig) and a generic branded 512m microSD, I'd like to test the results for others to see them.

How do i change the speed of my micro sd sandisc vanilla?

You don't. You buy a new and faster microSD.

You can change the speed the EZV expects data from your card by pressing L + R on your DS.

A message from Windirt who is currently unable to access the forums due to the cut cable in Asia:

There is more to the PNY 1GB than meets the eye.

It appears there are several types. The rule of thumb for the 1GB model is:

• If the available space after formatting is above 98xMB - it's the fast model
• If the available space after formatting is below 98xMB - it's the slow model
• If the available space after formatting is between 94x and 95xMB - it's the extremely slow model

The fast model apparently is made in Japan while the slow models come out of Taiwan. Don't however take this as gospel.

so what would you recomend as the best one?

i think kingston.

Hard to say without more feedback from people who have been using other brands.

I would keep away from the PNY 1GB for now. If I fill my MicroSD with about 512mb of files, any ROMs added thereafter will fail to load.

There *might* be an issue with Kingston. Hard to say at this point without more input from the owner.

I'd like to buy a Sandisk Ultra II to test, but the entire country seems to be out of stock.