[Q] MicroSD Class 6

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So I plan on picking up the Epic next week. I've seen in videos that it comes installed with a 16gig Class 2 (pretty slow) microSD card. If I were to replace this with a class 6 microSD card, would that speed up the phone at all?

thanks!

Edit: Or a class 8 or 10 card. Is there any reason to think 1. there would be any incompatibility and 2. that it would help the overall speed of the phone?

There is no class 8 or 10, and no, your phone won't be much faster at all with a class 6.

Originally Posted by entropism

There is no class 8 or 10, and no, your phone won't be much faster at all with a class 6.

The former is just not true, which a simple Google search could have told you. There's no class 8 AFAIK, but there is definitely a class 10.

Now...will it make your phone faster? For certain things, perhaps. Loading large thumbnail images in the gallery, taking pictures, loading applications installed to the SD card once we get Froyo, all will likely be made faster. However, in terms of value/money, I wouldn't recommend it. There shouldn't be any incompatibility, however it won't improve the overall speed of the phone (which really shouldn't need any improvement), only a few very specific tasks that access the SD card.

Originally Posted by entropism

There is no class 8 or 10, and no, your phone won't be much faster at all with a class 6.

You're ignorant!

I have a class 10, and it won't speed up your phone unless you have your apps installed on your card.

Originally Posted by infamousjax

You're ignorant!

I have a class 10, and it won't speed up your phone unless you have your apps installed on your card.

Between the stock class 2 and the class 6 that I bought, I didn't notice much app speed difference on my Nexus.

Read/write speeds were better when taking pictures/loading files however.

Ok let me clear this up...1 yes there is a class 10 (going for like almost $100)

now as for the difference...Class only gives you guaranteed Minimum Speeds once the card fragments.

Normally most cards do about 16mb read/8mb write..BUT once the card starts to fragment with data like your HD your speeds will go down. A class 2 card guarantees you that it will be no slower then 2mbps..a class 6 card guarantees you it will be no less then 6mbps.

Now why is minimum important? well when your recording things like HD movies or etc and it fragments you don't want your movie to stutter.

Considering though max our phones can do is 720p at this point a class 10 is pretty much useless...a class 2 is ok if you plan to use it for storage(and minimum deleting) or not use SD card often but want to have it available...examples class 2 for songs is ok.

Originally Posted by infamousjax

You're ignorant!

A little harsh? Nahhh, of course not.

Yes, there's a class 10, there's no class 8.

I would love to get a 16GB class 6 for my Epic, but $80 bucks is still a bit too steep for my tastes.

Originally Posted by NeonMonster

I would love to get a 16GB class 6 for my Epic, but $80 bucks is still a bit too steep for my tastes.

How about $51 including shipping?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820183245

do a search on the vibrant forum - someone posted the results of speed tests on the different cards by mfgr and surprisingly, sandisk's class 4 were incredibly fast, by a factor of 3 or 4X over cards that were rated much higher

the Kingston class 10's performance was a joke, iirc - performed iirc, something like a class 4 or class 5 (if a class 5 existed)

now for the down side - the sandisk class 4 cards are (or were hard to find) about a month ago - it might have changed now. But i bought two, one after the other and both showed up, and they were marked class 2. One of the outfits, Kompubuy on amazon, showed the class 4 card and the appropriate model number. what they shipped was a different model number and it was class 2. When i queried them on it, their response was "sandisk had a typo issue some time back" - there were others reporting the same issue with kompubuy

second card from a different vendor, even though they confirmed what they had were class 4 marked, shipped correct product model, but card in package was a class 2. So i called sandisk and got the run around - the tech would not answer the simple question "are you telling me that cards marked class 2 are running class 4 speeds???" - he kept obsfuscating the answer. I suspect the class 4 cards are selling like crazy and they're or were overstocked with class 2.

their class 4s btw, were testing at 15 - 18Mb write speeds where class 4 is supposed to be 4Mb

when i tested the sandisk cards marked class 2, write speed was, iirc, about 5-7 Mb, which is surprisingly fast for it's rating. But that was in line with the speed testing others had done. The sandisk cards are way under rated, speed rating wise

in actual useage, folks weren't noticing much of a difference between class 2 read speeds and the higher classes - i believe the class speed rating becomes more critical in the write mode, which, practically speaking, isn't much of a factor on a phone

search for the thread and you can read the results for yourself