NDS: microSD comparison (english version)
Kategorie: NINTENDO DS / DS LITE
Author: whynot
Manufacturer: A-Data / Kingston / SanDisk
Price: different, depending on the manufacturer, memory-size, SDHC yes or no
Platform: here NDS (all Versions)
Product: microSD-memory-cards for Slot-1- or Slot-2-Flashlinker
some microSD/SDHC's and Slot-1-Flashlinker are available at: www.freaxstore.de , www.konsolenprofis.de , www.ta-multimedia.de , www.wolfsoft.de
First I want to apologize for any grammar and vocabulary mistakes in this text!
You'll find the same pictures and videos as in the german test-version.
Many users asked the same question again and again: which microSD-card is the best for my Flashlinker?
Therefore and for the reason, that you can get SDHC-cards at reasonable prices now, I've tested some of my microSD-cards with my SDHC-capable Flashlinkers.
First I've tested the provided cardreaders. Due to the new specification for the SDHC-cards there are some compatibility issues you didn't recognise before.
You can find more explanations here:
http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/index.html#special-sd.html
E.g. with the first included cardreaders (the blue ones) it was impossible for me to run a SDHC-Benchmark with success, already the "normal" 2GB-microSD's caused a benchmark-crash.
The most external or PC-integrated cardreaders react in the same way.
Also the "micromate" cardreader provided by SanDisk originate some problems at my computer...
I made several tests with different programs:
- Benchmark-Test with HD Tach 3.0.4.0
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
- Benchmark-Test with HD Tune 2.55
http://www.hdtune.com/
- Benchmark-Test with Disk Speed 1.1
http://www.roadkil.net/DskSpeed.html
The cardreader-comparison was made with HD Tach 3.0.4.0, the microSDHC "A-DATA 4 GB Class 6" and the following cardreaders:
- R4DS v1 (blue)
- R4DS v2 (silver)
- CycloDS v1 (blue)
- SuperCard SCDS-One (white)
- SanDisk MicroMate (white, SD-Adaptor necessary)
- SanDisk (8 GB) Mobile Mate (black-red)
- A-Data micro Reader (green)
- M3-Real USB-Reader (black)
- DSTT USB-Reader (turquoise-silver)
(Click at the picture to enlarge)
As you can see, the values don't lie apart with the microSD-able readers, the SanDisk MicroMate falls behind.
The blue cardreaders aren't in the comparison because of the crashes which were mentioned before.
(Click at the picture to enlarge)
For the following tests I choose the R4DS v2.
I take the program HD Tune 2.55 for the tests (Disk Speed 1.1 delivered no data at one microSD)
HD Tune 2.55 shows the minimum, maximum and average reading value; futhermore the burst rate at writing and the access time.
Here I took the following memory-cards:
- Kingston (Japan) 1 GB
- Kingston SDHC -Class 4- 4 GB
- A-Data 2 GB
- A-Data SDHC -Class 6- 4 GB
- SanDisk SDHC -Class 2- 4 GB
- SanDisk SDHC -Class 4- 6 GB
- SanDisk SDHC -Class 4- 8 GB
(Click at the picture to enlarge)
The "class"-difference among the SDHC-cards is only visible between Class 2 and Class 4, for Class 6 my PC seems to be the bottleneck.
(Click at the picture to enlarge)
An interesting point you can see at the random access. Only the A-Data -Class 6- is as fast as the "normal" microSD-cards, the other lie in the bad range starting from 1ms.
The other benchmark-programs showed the same access time.
(Click at the picture to enlarge)
Here are some HD Tune-Sreenshots after testing:
(Click at the picture to enlarge)
At last I made videos with each memory-card and each Flashlinker, overall 28 videos.
The memory-cards all got the same data and the actual firmware according to the Flashlinker:
- CycloDS v 1.3
- DSTT v 1.8
- M3-Real v 3.0
- SCDS-One SDHC v 3.0 SP 2
Before I changed the Flashlinker the Save- and Firmware-Files were deleted; so each video create a new Save-File!
Each video shows the Flashlinker and the memory-card; afterwards starts the Castlevania-Intro.
Here it concerns, whether the video is liquid shown, any blurrys due to the focus of the video camera.
Coarser pixel structures can be explained with twice conversion (Camer - PC / ".wmv" - ".flv").
The last conversion was done with the program "Super", which you can download here:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload
Here you can see the conversion-settings:
(Click at the picture to enlarge)
I just film the touchscreen, so it could be that sometimes the screen is only dark or bright...
I've set the speed setting for the SCDS-One SDHC manually to "30“ (even if the autospeed-program suggests a worse value)!
The videos are without sound, so you can concentrate on the pictures.
Here we go:
CYCLODS EVOLUTION @ 1.3 Firmware:
SuperCard DSOne SDHC @ 3.0 SP2 Firmware:
M3 DS Real @ 3.0 Firmware:
DS TOP TOY (DSTT) @ 1.8 Firmware:
Kategorie: NINTENDO DS / DS LITE
Author: whynot
Manufacturer: A-Data / Kingston / SanDisk
Price: different, depending on the manufacturer, memory-size, SDHC yes or no
Platform: here NDS (all Versions)
Product: microSD-memory-cards for Slot-1- or Slot-2-Flashlinker
some microSD/SDHC's and Slot-1-Flashlinker are available at: www.freaxstore.de , www.konsolenprofis.de , www.ta-multimedia.de , www.wolfsoft.de
First I want to apologize for any grammar and vocabulary mistakes in this text!
You'll find the same pictures and videos as in the german test-version.
Many users asked the same question again and again: which microSD-card is the best for my Flashlinker?
Therefore and for the reason, that you can get SDHC-cards at reasonable prices now, I've tested some of my microSD-cards with my SDHC-capable Flashlinkers.
First I've tested the provided cardreaders. Due to the new specification for the SDHC-cards there are some compatibility issues you didn't recognise before.
You can find more explanations here:
http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/index.html#special-sd.html
E.g. with the first included cardreaders (the blue ones) it was impossible for me to run a SDHC-Benchmark with success, already the "normal" 2GB-microSD's caused a benchmark-crash.
The most external or PC-integrated cardreaders react in the same way.
Also the "micromate" cardreader provided by SanDisk originate some problems at my computer...
I made several tests with different programs:
- Benchmark-Test with HD Tach 3.0.4.0
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
- Benchmark-Test with HD Tune 2.55
http://www.hdtune.com/
- Benchmark-Test with Disk Speed 1.1
http://www.roadkil.net/DskSpeed.html
The cardreader-comparison was made with HD Tach 3.0.4.0, the microSDHC "A-DATA 4 GB Class 6" and the following cardreaders:
- R4DS v1 (blue)
- R4DS v2 (silver)
- CycloDS v1 (blue)
- SuperCard SCDS-One (white)
- SanDisk MicroMate (white, SD-Adaptor necessary)
- SanDisk (8 GB) Mobile Mate (black-red)
- A-Data micro Reader (green)
- M3-Real USB-Reader (black)
- DSTT USB-Reader (turquoise-silver)
As you can see, the values don't lie apart with the microSD-able readers, the SanDisk MicroMate falls behind.
The blue cardreaders aren't in the comparison because of the crashes which were mentioned before.
For the following tests I choose the R4DS v2.
I take the program HD Tune 2.55 for the tests (Disk Speed 1.1 delivered no data at one microSD)
HD Tune 2.55 shows the minimum, maximum and average reading value; futhermore the burst rate at writing and the access time.
Here I took the following memory-cards:
- Kingston (Japan) 1 GB
- Kingston SDHC -Class 4- 4 GB
- A-Data 2 GB
- A-Data SDHC -Class 6- 4 GB
- SanDisk SDHC -Class 2- 4 GB
- SanDisk SDHC -Class 4- 6 GB
- SanDisk SDHC -Class 4- 8 GB
The "class"-difference among the SDHC-cards is only visible between Class 2 and Class 4, for Class 6 my PC seems to be the bottleneck.
An interesting point you can see at the random access. Only the A-Data -Class 6- is as fast as the "normal" microSD-cards, the other lie in the bad range starting from 1ms.
The other benchmark-programs showed the same access time.
Here are some HD Tune-Sreenshots after testing:
At last I made videos with each memory-card and each Flashlinker, overall 28 videos.
The memory-cards all got the same data and the actual firmware according to the Flashlinker:
- CycloDS v 1.3
- DSTT v 1.8
- M3-Real v 3.0
- SCDS-One SDHC v 3.0 SP 2
Before I changed the Flashlinker the Save- and Firmware-Files were deleted; so each video create a new Save-File!
Each video shows the Flashlinker and the memory-card; afterwards starts the Castlevania-Intro.
Here it concerns, whether the video is liquid shown, any blurrys due to the focus of the video camera.
Coarser pixel structures can be explained with twice conversion (Camer - PC / ".wmv" - ".flv").
The last conversion was done with the program "Super", which you can download here:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload
Here you can see the conversion-settings:
I just film the touchscreen, so it could be that sometimes the screen is only dark or bright...
I've set the speed setting for the SCDS-One SDHC manually to "30“ (even if the autospeed-program suggests a worse value)!
The videos are without sound, so you can concentrate on the pictures.
Here we go:
CYCLODS EVOLUTION @ 1.3 Firmware:
A-Data_ 2-GB_normal:
A-Data_ 4-GB_Class_6:
Kingston_1-GB_normal:
Kingston_4-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _4-GB_Class_2:
SanDisk _6-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _8-GB_Class_4:
SuperCard DSOne SDHC @ 3.0 SP2 Firmware:
A-Data_ 2-GB_normal:
A-Data_ 4-GB_Class_6:
Kingston_1-GB_normal:
Kingston_4-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _4-GB_Class_2:
SanDisk _6-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _8-GB_Class_4:
M3 DS Real @ 3.0 Firmware:
A-Data_ 2-GB_normal:
A-Data_ 4-GB_Class_6:
Kingston_1-GB_normal:
Kingston_4-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _4-GB_Class_2:
SanDisk _6-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _8-GB_Class_4:
DS TOP TOY (DSTT) @ 1.8 Firmware:
A-Data_ 2-GB_normal:
A-Data_ 4-GB_Class_6:
Kingston_1-GB_normal:
Kingston_4-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _4-GB_Class_2:
SanDisk _6-GB_Class_4:
SanDisk _8-GB_Class_4:
POSITIV
+ CycloDS and DSTT works with all kind of SDHC-memorycards
+ CycloDS and DSTT works with all kind of SDHC-memorycards
NEGATIV
- M3-Real and SCDS-One SDHC have some probs with the most memorycards. The random access is the point you have to look for.
- M3-Real and SCDS-One SDHC have some probs with the most memorycards. The random access is the point you have to look for.
FAZIT
You should buy one of the faster memory-brands (Kingston / Toshiba / PNY / A-Data). Be sure that your flashlinker works with the microSD.
The percentage of 100 was selected because of the fact that microSD's could launched in other articles (e.g. cameras or mobiles).
You should buy one of the faster memory-brands (Kingston / Toshiba / PNY / A-Data). Be sure that your flashlinker works with the microSD.
The percentage of 100 was selected because of the fact that microSD's could launched in other articles (e.g. cameras or mobiles).
