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4GB Micro SD Cards ? Are the too slow?

32 replies · 12,193 views · Started 26 July 2007

eyedoubleyou wrote:

Is the 4GB Micros SD too slow, I basically want to watch divx files and also play music.

Advice please, anyone got one?

I have the Sandisk 4Gb MicroSDHC with the bundled Sandisk MicroMate USB adapter.

I copied a TomTom map file (124Mb) from, then back to the card.

Read time: 12 seconds
Write time: 24 seconds

It would appear than on a PC with USB2, the read/write speeds are approx 10Mb/sec read and 5Mb/sec write.

The read/write speeds using Nokia Mass Storage Mode and the Nokia USB cable are crap, so I am not going to trouble anyone with timings.

I see no reason why the N95 should not preform at least as well with the SDHC cards as it did with the previous UltraII MicroSD cards. 😉