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SD card problems
On 8/24/2018 11:02 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Did you yet try the CrystalDiskMark tool to see what it says for various file sizes used in the different tests? If you get the same behavior on your friend's PC, I'd say try another $15 64GB SD card but perhaps something other than Sandisk. Team is another brand I'd stay away from. The Samsung EVO costs more but I've not had problems with them. Currently bestbuy.com is selling it at $25. walmart.com (and I mean Walmart, not a storefront for some other seller at walmart.com) has it for $20 where you can have it shipped free to a local store and should there be a problem you can return it to a store. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Samsung-6...pter/701252739 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung...?skuId=5785404 Those might be sale prices, so swing by your friend's house soon to test your uSD card on his PC. Try CrystalDiskMark there, too. Just in case the USB card reader might be the problem, you can get a new uSD card with SD adapter and card reader for $20, like: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16820239984 (but thats Adorama Camera operating a storefront at Newegg) I think the card is junk and the EBAY seller isn't responding, I'll chalk it up to learning not to bottom-feed. Thanks for the recommendations, I bought a Samsung 64GB 100MB/s (U3) MicroSDXC EVO Select, fingers crossed. Thanks! |
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Mike S wrote:
Is Amazon better? What do you recommend as far as reputable SD card sources? Thanks. Just about every online seller, allows third-party sellers to sell through their site. Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Staples and so on, do that sort of thing. Going to your local computer store and buying, still doesn't guarantee a thing, because counterfeits have been foisted on commercial buyers too. In fact, one manufacturer in Japan, warns customers to deal directly with it, because the level of "Chinese knockoffs" is so high. The Chinese knockoff rate was so high, it was ruining the company financially. If Newegg can accept a shipment of Intel processors, where the box contained an item other than a processor, just about any major corporation can be tricked on this stuff. You rely on distributors to not buy from dodgy sources, but all it takes is one slip-up for this sort of thing to happen. Summary: use a Brick and mortar store, talk to the store staff regarding whether they've ever had counterfeits on the shelf. If it did happen, there's a very good chance a disti did it, and not anyone on store staff. It was likely beyond store control (the buyer at some point, has to trust the distributor). The Newegg Intel CPU incident, is a case in point. Still, that's my best source. Using Ebay on the other hand, there is zero effort to stop the practice - you expect a screwing. An Ebay seller would take great pride in shipping you a 1TB flash device, which actually has an 8GB flash inside and the whole thing sells for $20. I have only one computer store in town, with a good enough product selection for this sort of impulse buy. The rest sell schlock in any case. If you attempt to buy SD from a camera store, expect to pay a premium price. On SD, you should have a good idea before you go shopping, of what "class" the application needs. I was shopping for "Class 10" for my digital camera, when I bought an SD for it. The camera cannot generate data that fast, so Class 10 ensures the Flash is never a bottleneck. More modern devices (4K or higher cameras), might require some of the higher end flash-based storage products. On a laptop, you have the same considerations. Is the built-in controller pure **** ? If so, then a proper Class 10 (not a fake), might be all it can profit from. If the machine really has a whizzy controller, then you'd shop for a better flash, to take advantage of the I/O rate possible. You pay for I/O rate, but there's no point in going overboard, if no device in your house will even remotely approach that rate. Paul |
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Mike S wrote:
I think the card is junk and the EBAY seller isn't responding, I'll chalk it up to learning not to bottom-feed. You could start a return process at eBay whether the seller agrees or not. I don't remember how long eBay requires you try to contact the seller before opening a case with eBay. If eBay cannot get the seller to respond, you should be cover by their Buyer Guarantee which means they'll pay you back. I've done this with eBay a couple times (out of so many transactions that it hasn't soured me at all on buying at eBay but I do a lot of investigation first). One time eBay refunded me without me even asking them. Turns out some ahole had sliced up an MS Office 2003 volume license the result of which is that buyers eventually couldn't revalidate their license. They refunded in about a month perhaps due to complaints from others. It was 2 years before I realized why they refunded when I could get Ofc2003 revalidated after a fresh install of the OS. Thanks for the recommendations, I bought a Samsung 64GB 100MB/s (U3) MicroSDXC EVO Select, fingers crossed. Thanks! Come back and tell us the results, especially with a comparison of CrystalDiskMark with the old and new SD cards. |
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On 8/25/2018 1:34 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Mike S wrote: I think the card is junk and the EBAY seller isn't responding, I'll chalk it up to learning not to bottom-feed. You could start a return process at eBay whether the seller agrees or not. I don't remember how long eBay requires you try to contact the seller before opening a case with eBay. If eBay cannot get the seller to respond, you should be cover by their Buyer Guarantee which means they'll pay you back. I've done this with eBay a couple times (out of so many transactions that it hasn't soured me at all on buying at eBay but I do a lot of investigation first). One time eBay refunded me without me even asking them. Turns out some ahole had sliced up an MS Office 2003 volume license the result of which is that buyers eventually couldn't revalidate their license. They refunded in about a month perhaps due to complaints from others. It was 2 years before I realized why they refunded when I could get Ofc2003 revalidated after a fresh install of the OS. Thanks for the recommendations, I bought a Samsung 64GB 100MB/s (U3) MicroSDXC EVO Select, fingers crossed. Thanks! Come back and tell us the results, especially with a comparison of CrystalDiskMark with the old and new SD cards. I didn't get a chance to run the CrystalDiskMark but the file writing was significanlty faster with the EVO. I think it was limited by the speed of the USB external hdd the files were being copied from, on a different computer writing from the SSD to the external hdd was about 23 MB/s if I remember correctly. USB hdd to EVO in laptop SD card slow: 1% 21 MB/s 25% slowly dropped to 7.5 then increased to 11 MB/s 50% steadily increased to 18.2 MB/s 75% steadily increased to 22.6 MB/s 99% steadily increased to 24.7 MB/s Thanks again for the recommendation, I'll be buying EVO from now on. Mike |
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On 8/25/2018 5:17 AM, Paul wrote:
Mike S wrote: Is Amazon better? What do you recommend as far as reputable SD card sources? Thanks. Just about every online seller, allows third-party sellers to sell through their site. Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Staples and so on, do that sort of thing. Going to your local computer store and buying, still doesn't guarantee a thing, because counterfeits have been foisted on commercial buyers too. In fact, one manufacturer in Japan, warns customers to deal directly with it, because the level of "Chinese knockoffs" is so high. The Chinese knockoff rate was so high, it was ruining the company financially. If Newegg can accept a shipment of Intel processors, where the box contained an item other than a processor, just about any major corporation can be tricked on this stuff. You rely on distributors to not buy from dodgy sources, but all it takes is one slip-up for this sort of thing to happen. Summary: use a Brick and mortar store, talk to the store staff Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* regarding whether they've ever had counterfeits Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* on the shelf. If it did happen, there's a very good Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* chance a disti did it, and not anyone on store staff. Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* It was likely beyond store control (the buyer at some Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* point, has to trust the distributor). The Newegg Intel Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* CPU incident, is a case in point. Still, that's Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* my best source. Using Ebay on the other hand, there Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* is zero effort to stop the practice - you expect a Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* screwing. An Ebay seller would take great pride in Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* shipping you a 1TB flash device, which actually has Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* an 8GB flash inside and the whole thing sells for $20. I have only one computer store in town, with a good enough product selection for this sort of impulse buy. The rest sell schlock in any case. If you attempt to buy SD from a camera store, expect to pay a premium price. On SD, you should have a good idea before you go shopping, of what "class" the application needs. I was shopping for "Class 10" for my digital camera, when I bought an SD for it. The camera cannot generate data that fast, so Class 10 ensures the Flash is never a bottleneck. More modern devices (4K or higher cameras), might require some of the higher end flash-based storage products. On a laptop, you have the same considerations. Is the built-in controller pure **** ? If so, then a proper Class 10 (not a fake), might be all it can profit from. If the machine really has a whizzy controller, then you'd shop for a better flash, to take advantage of the I/O rate possible. You pay for I/O rate, but there's no point in going overboard, if no device in your house will even remotely approach that rate. Â*Â* Paul Thanks Paul, the EVO write speeds were significantly faster, and probably limited by the USB ext. hdd I was copying from, I don't have a lot of music, and getting the files copied in 1hr. was a real pleasure. |
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Mike S wrote:
On 8/25/2018 1:34 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Mike S wrote: I think the card is junk and the EBAY seller isn't responding, I'll chalk it up to learning not to bottom-feed. You could start a return process at eBay whether the seller agrees or not. I don't remember how long eBay requires you try to contact the seller before opening a case with eBay. If eBay cannot get the seller to respond, you should be cover by their Buyer Guarantee which means they'll pay you back. I've done this with eBay a couple times (out of so many transactions that it hasn't soured me at all on buying at eBay but I do a lot of investigation first). One time eBay refunded me without me even asking them. Turns out some ahole had sliced up an MS Office 2003 volume license the result of which is that buyers eventually couldn't revalidate their license. They refunded in about a month perhaps due to complaints from others. It was 2 years before I realized why they refunded when I could get Ofc2003 revalidated after a fresh install of the OS. Thanks for the recommendations, I bought a Samsung 64GB 100MB/s (U3) MicroSDXC EVO Select, fingers crossed. Thanks! Come back and tell us the results, especially with a comparison of CrystalDiskMark with the old and new SD cards. I didn't get a chance to run the CrystalDiskMark but the file writing was significanlty faster with the EVO. I think it was limited by the speed of the USB external hdd the files were being copied from, on a different computer writing from the SSD to the external hdd was about 23 MB/s if I remember correctly. USB hdd to EVO in laptop SD card slow: 1% 21 MB/s 25% slowly dropped to 7.5 then increased to 11 MB/s 50% steadily increased to 18.2 MB/s 75% steadily increased to 22.6 MB/s 99% steadily increased to 24.7 MB/s Thanks again for the recommendation, I'll be buying EVO from now on. That's what I got for EVO as an SSD in my desktop PC for the OS & app drive. I looked around for awhile, checked benchmarks, and durability. The Samsung 850 EVO 250GB was good ($88 at 16 months ago). The Pro isn't faster (https://preview.tinyurl.com/y83p73uv) but should survive more write hammering at a 150% price premium. Now there's the Samsung 860 500GB EVO for $109. I still use HDDs for data and backup storage since the price per bit is still a lot lower than using SSDs. My old mobo only has SATA2 slots (yep, not even SATA3). When I get a new mobo, the SATA3 will speed up the old SSD which become a data drive. I'll eventually get a new mobo with even faster NVMe (SATA was designed for spinners versus NVMe for SSDs) as an m.2 PCIe boot drive. See: https://www.grcooling.com/blog/nvme-...ime-to-switch/ Eventually the PCs will cold boot faster than it takes me to sit down in my desk chair. Press power button, poof, ready. |
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On 8/25/2018 7:12 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Mike S wrote: On 8/25/2018 1:34 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Mike S wrote: I think the card is junk and the EBAY seller isn't responding, I'll chalk it up to learning not to bottom-feed. You could start a return process at eBay whether the seller agrees or not. I don't remember how long eBay requires you try to contact the seller before opening a case with eBay. If eBay cannot get the seller to respond, you should be cover by their Buyer Guarantee which means they'll pay you back. I've done this with eBay a couple times (out of so many transactions that it hasn't soured me at all on buying at eBay but I do a lot of investigation first). One time eBay refunded me without me even asking them. Turns out some ahole had sliced up an MS Office 2003 volume license the result of which is that buyers eventually couldn't revalidate their license. They refunded in about a month perhaps due to complaints from others. It was 2 years before I realized why they refunded when I could get Ofc2003 revalidated after a fresh install of the OS. Thanks for the recommendations, I bought a Samsung 64GB 100MB/s (U3) MicroSDXC EVO Select, fingers crossed. Thanks! Come back and tell us the results, especially with a comparison of CrystalDiskMark with the old and new SD cards. I didn't get a chance to run the CrystalDiskMark but the file writing was significanlty faster with the EVO. I think it was limited by the speed of the USB external hdd the files were being copied from, on a different computer writing from the SSD to the external hdd was about 23 MB/s if I remember correctly. USB hdd to EVO in laptop SD card slow: 1% 21 MB/s 25% slowly dropped to 7.5 then increased to 11 MB/s 50% steadily increased to 18.2 MB/s 75% steadily increased to 22.6 MB/s 99% steadily increased to 24.7 MB/s Thanks again for the recommendation, I'll be buying EVO from now on. That's what I got for EVO as an SSD in my desktop PC for the OS & app drive. I looked around for awhile, checked benchmarks, and durability. The Samsung 850 EVO 250GB was good ($88 at 16 months ago). The Pro isn't faster (https://preview.tinyurl.com/y83p73uv) but should survive more write hammering at a 150% price premium. Now there's the Samsung 860 500GB EVO for $109. I still use HDDs for data and backup storage since the price per bit is still a lot lower than using SSDs. My old mobo only has SATA2 slots (yep, not even SATA3). When I get a new mobo, the SATA3 will speed up the old SSD which become a data drive. I'll eventually get a new mobo with even faster NVMe (SATA was designed for spinners versus NVMe for SSDs) as an m.2 PCIe boot drive. See: https://www.grcooling.com/blog/nvme-...ime-to-switch/ Eventually the PCs will cold boot faster than it takes me to sit down in my desk chair. Press power button, poof, ready. Great article, thanks, the NVMe SSD numbers are impressive. |
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