yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dannyc93:
Well after a bit of research it turns out that the 2 different listing are because one of them is the newer model, like if you check on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005LFT40G/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&s=computers&psc=1

It links you to a newer model with a different product code and it has the little "1" in the bottom left like in the ebay listing...so if people are thinking of ordering i would advise to get the more expensive one as it looks like Sandisk has made some revisions...

Sorry for the long post just thought id share that :P
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
I've just received it (as I mentioned, it was the stated class 6 that I purchased, if there's any difference, I don't know), however, being from the same seller, should be able to determine the legitimacy of the cards
[Galaxy S III Accessories] n-j-f:
Just noticed Play have put back the date for the 64Gb MicroSD to 12 June. Most annoying especially when they can't be bothered to notify you.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
Just an update for those really eager - I've only tested 3300MByte, though, all were fine.. Average write speed (by my eyes) were around 7.2 and read speed was at 17.5. I do have a crappy micro-sd card usb reader though, so that may limit it? No errors found. I will later test the full capacity of the card, this will take around 3 hours+
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Wond3r:
Just wondering, when you guys buy 32gb+ sd cards and add on the internal memory... What do you need that much space for? are you guys storing hd movies and not deleting them after you watch them?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
Well me, personally, had a 64Gb iPod Touch... sold it and bought a 64Gb sd card instead for my phone (and make some profit, maybe towards an S3)... so most of my music will go on it, as well as some movies/shows and of course games/apps that can be moved to the sd card (if I run low on internal stoarge) ... it does seem a little extreme (32gb would be plenty), but decided to go all out.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beda_boy:
good deal for me, as long as it detects the 59.xxGB size of the card, that's positive. thanks for sharing:)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
yep, 59.4...testing the whole card now - will post results in 3 hours or so if anyone's still interested :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] funk_doc:
In Germany the newer SDCard is cheaper then the old one... confusing :rolleyes:

BTW: The speed of the SDCard depends on the adapter/card reader you have. AndroidNZ has measured different results with different card readers and the varieties are huge!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
That's interesting thanks for that - looks like I might have to invest in a decent one (usb 3.0 compatible? if that makes a difference with sd cards)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Jay Ssj:
i had found one good deal on 8gb sandisk card which was just like 3-4 $

I can't post the link because of some restrictions atm so ill inform you later.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
Righteo, results from H2testw - all seems 100% fine.

Anyone interested in the seller - name is sinceritytrading...lowest price for sandisk 64gb on eBay. Highly recommended (at this stage :P ).
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SwiftSmoke:
they do if you have it pre ordered they send you an update email, Ive had 2 for the 2 date changes. What bothers me though is sandisk currently have this card as Instock on there website yet play.com cant get it yet? strange :/
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beda_boy:
that's great! appreciate the feedback!:)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] n-j-f:
I ordered two two weeks ago but have had no email about a delay although I see my order status says it is delayed.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] funk_doc:
Yeah maybe you need a different one, but you won't have to buy adapter with USB 3.0! 2.0 has a 40 MBit/sec data transfer rate...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bluebobx:
It's supposedly just a speed bump - class 6 v's class 10 for the ones with that little "1" marker.

Needless to say I ended up with the class 6 one - but since I'm not planning to shoot HD video I figure that I'm probably okay with the slower one. Upside was that Amazon was on next day delivery for that one.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dannyc93:
That was what I assumed...thanks for the clarification!

Is there any chance you could post benchmarks of the card...still dont know if I will really need 64GB vs 32GB :confused: LOL
[Galaxy S III Accessories] funk_doc:
But I have to mention that if you want to shoot more than three pictures a second you have to have a class10 sd card. With a class6 card you can't shoot that much pictures if you keep the finger on the trigger ;)

Overall: there is no reason to buy the class6 card, because the class10 card is cheaper and faster!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bluebobx:
Here's CrystalMark from an unbranded (it came from Play.Com) Class 10 card. This came out of my ASUS TF101 tablet, so has been formatted FAT32.

And here's the results from the 64GB Sandisk, (following a fresh exFAT format on a Windows7 PC).

Disclaimer: I've only got a crappy USB2.0-connected card reader (three year old Sandisk multicard one)so I'm going to point out that this might have been throttling the results! (Before folks start flaming me that the results for the Class 10 are too low).

Hope this helps, if you want ATTO done too then fine, but I've not got the time to do that at the moment - the bosses are starting to complain! :o

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I'll agree 100% that if the class 10 is cheaper (and available!!) then you'd be an idiot to go for the class 6.

On the other hand, I've always been told that an 8Mpix camera will produce an 8MB RAW file, or a JPG of between 1-3MB. So to shoot 5pic/sec you'll need

at least

5MB/s write speed and more likely 15MB/s, (because mobiles don't do raw mode yet). So my class 6 card could manage the low end speeds, but (based on that one CrystalMark test) it'll not manage the top level.

However, remember that phones - like cameras - tend to take shots and buffer them. So it's entirely possible that a "slow" class 6 card will happily support burst mode, just as long as you're doing shoot-then-rest rather than extended bursts. I just checked and the Lexar "professional" SD card I bought two years ago claims 20MB/s+ speed, although that's only for

reads

with the note that "write speeds lower" but no figures given. :( Coincidentally, the modern versions of that card claim to be "Class 10".

Personally I would have thought a "better" justification for that Class 10 card (other than it's CHEAPER) would have been for HD Video recording - assuming that this would push a card more than still photos - even if using burst modes that some camera phones have now.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] n-j-f:
Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but Amazon UK and DE now have the new version of the Sandisk 64Gb card in stock. UK is £49.48 but 2 extra days to ship. Cheaper at DE and 2 to 3 days shipping to UK.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] n-j-f:
Sorry can't edit my post. Of course it's about £4.50 cheaper at Play but they have put back their stock date to mid June.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] giftedgiggsy11:
Just got my 64GB sandisk card.

I read a post earlier saying its best to format the card in the phone, is this true? or am i alright inserting the card into my pcs card reader and start adding music until my phone arrives.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] TotallydubbedHD:
Thought to report in - my Samsung Class 10, extreme speed, 16GB micro SD came in - it's faster than my class 4, by far :)

here is my lil review I posted over on amazon:

Well I plugged this into my SGS i9000, and coming from a class 4 Kingston, not only was my read and write speeds fast on AnTuTu Benchmark - which went from around 2-5mb write and 8-10mb read to around 8-10 write and 10-11 read - although that speed difference, in black and white doesn't seem like a huge leap, the actual performance and usability of the new class 10 sd card is much faster.

I realised this first via the actual benchmark - and by this I mean, the speed in which the benchmark finished, With my old class 4 it took a good 3-4mins before it would give me the results, and with the new class 10, it would give it within 1-2mins. Apart from that, reading the things I had on my EXT SD + copy and pasting things in & out of it, where faster.

Overall, I'm very happy with my purchase + at the price of only £18, you really can't go wrong! (I remember buying my class 4, for £20, around 6months ago - I also realise the price as I'm writing this has dropped to £15)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
if you're using it in the S3 it 'should' be fine and not need to be formatted. It is stated to support exFat format (standard sdxc format)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bluebobx:
If you've got an XP (or older!) PC then format in the phone. If Vista SP1 or later then you'll be fine to format on the PC

as long as you remember to use exFAT

. Linux

might

work, but I'm 50/50 whether you can get exFAT support for Macs. When I used my Windows 7 PC, the OS recognised the existing exFAT format and offered that as the default.

Oh, and I did exactly what you're suggesting - loaded music library onto the card in the morning ready for the arrival o' the wee white wonder in the afternoon ... And since I'm currently listening to my SIII playing "Sink The Pink" (AC/DC, Who Made Who album), I'd say it worked fine. :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Amritttt:
I will get sgs3 tomorrow and I've got 32gb samsung card. What file system should i format to fat 32 or exfat.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] GalaxyFan88:
Better ExFat, it is the more advanced filesystem and you don't have the 4Gb file limitation.

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[Galaxy S III Accessories] TechAnimal:
What about NTFS? I'd like to be able to read the card on a pc and also not deal with the 4gb file size limitation.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ronj1986:
For you all on the fence about what size to get, don't forget you also have 50 gigabyte of Dropbox storage for 2 years!!!! That is in addition to whatever storage your phone has inside......16GB, 32GB, 64GB.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] hkfriends:
no problem on 64GB

BTW, is class 10 which is overkill in mobile device ?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kyan~:
no you want class 10. soon uhs-1 will take over with 80mb/s from samsung
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bluebobx:
See my post #99 in this thread - basically as long as you're not on Windows XP (or earlier) then you're golden. Especially if you're relatively up to date - Windows 7 handles exFAT as a native filesystem - no more difficult to use than NTFS. Although I'm not 100% convinced that many phones handle NTFS!

Nah, class 10 cards are coming down in price like a safe dropped from an airliner. E.g. a year ago -

if

you could get it - then you were talking $200+ for a 64GB card, now they're what? $70 ... or even less.

You can never be too handsome, too rich, or your phone have too much or too fast storage. :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] funk_doc:
BTW: Is there any solution to the thing, that system apps won't recognize the external sdcard? For example the Video-Player...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] damian5700:
Not that it is very important, but with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and 3 you can make a minor 3.2 MB update to add support for the exFAT file system format: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19364#overview

Just for completeness.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] MrMrMr111:
Is this any good?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006MT49...de=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B006MT49JG

Seems decent price, around the same price as other 32Gb SDs. Would have liked a 64Gb but this should be ok.

Its a class 10, and to me for the price difference, may as well goto a Class 10, e.g. 32Gb class 4 was £15, this samsung class 10 was £23
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SwiftSmoke:
Got this card

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007JTKM30/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

I can confirm they have mixed the description for this item and it is the class 10 UHS 1 version, its also confirmed at the bottom of the item page :)

I got mine from jarlink and have been very happy with it, test results are included and I will be leaving a 5* review for the seller :)

My current card reader is only sdhc compliant so thats why no blistering 30MB/s from the tests :)

edit:- unfortunately the card is around £10 dearer than when I bought it but still not a bad price :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Gadgetz:
I just bought a Samsung 32gb Class 10 microSD card last week, should be here any day now and should find its home hopefully soon in my SGS3 when I get it from AT&T.

via Atrix 2/VictoryROM/XDA app
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Gadgetz:
Ordered last Wednesday, got here today. Was gonna use it in my Motorola Atrix 2 but now that I can see the SGS3 at the end of the tunnel i'm gonna hold off until I get it in my hands and then I'll have the best smartphone in the world and a nice 48gb of storage space on it.....as compared to the 20gb I have on my A2. :cool:

Can't wait!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bluebobx:
I haven't found any downsides so far - in fact I was delighted when the first time I fired up the camera it asked me whether it was to use internal storage or the external card. :D Video player and other apps seem to also regard internal and external storage as one big slab o' space. Certainly I didn't have to do anything to get it to recognise the videos and music on the external card, and I can see the Samsung bundled stuff (which is obviously on the internal memory) in the same views.

Hmm, interesting benchmarks - I think my card reader has the same problem, but the "older" version of that Sandisk card benches (for me at least) with slower writes, but faster reads. In which case I've got to draw the conclusion that the older card is probably better for putting stuff on you're going to listen to/watch, whereas the newer one is better for the keen burst mode photographer or video buff.

Annoying that the price has gone up - maybe that's the effect of some of those 9 mil SIII pre-order customers slapping the biggest card they could find in their new purchase. ;)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] rokyrakoooon:
guys can u please help,does the sdhc card work on s3 or does it have to be a sdxc card...I cant seem to find any 32GB sdxc cards...It seems there r only 64 GB sdxc cards....Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Accessories] beaver2233:
sdhc will work fine :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] billybobjones:
asked this but didnt receive a clear reply?

what can be stored on the micro sd? can apps/games be stored on it?

or is it just pictures/music?

need to know to get the 16gb s3 or wait for 32gb..
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Billchen0014:
Yes, an app is call app2sd which allows you to move apps to your sd card, saving internal storage. As well as many big games like NOVA 3 require data packs which can be installed on the SD card. Hit the thanks button of this helps!

oops! accidentally beamed from my awesome NEXUS S!
[Galaxy S III Accessories] billybobjones:
i heard that app doesn't work on the s3
[Galaxy S III Accessories] SwiftSmoke:
as far as i know it doesnt work yet, as the way ics links to internal mem and external sd card is slightly diff. So we just have to wait for app devs to incl the new storage links in there apps.

SDXC devises i.e the SGS3 are downwards compatible so orig microsd and micro sdhc cards will work as well as the sdxc format. SDXC is just the new format for cards 64GB and over as they come with exfat which doesnt have a single file size limit and also has the potential for up to 2TB cards :)

maybe this link will help too :D

https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/sdxc_capabilities/using_sdxc/
[Galaxy S III Accessories] No5k1ll:
Hi Guys,

i have a question how to format a micro SDXC 64GB from ScanDisc on win7 to get the best performance with the phone?

I know exfat, but what allocation unit size do I have to take? 32, 64, 128 or higher? Please help me, I have googled much hours but found nothing.

Sorry about this noobish question and thanks for help.

LG
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bluebobx:
I'd go with the default, which for the 64GB card is 128. Look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365.

If my (time addled) memory is telling me true, then smaller cluster size mean that you end up with less wasted space, but large files need a LOT of clusters which can mean an appreciable overhead and - potentially - slower read speeds.

Now I'd suggest that if you've got a 64GB card then you're probably planning to put large files (big apps or video) on it, in which case the choice of a maxed out cluster size is a no-brainer. On the other hand, if I'm wrong and you're planning to slap 40GB+ of really low quality MP3 files (for example) then perhaps the 32KB cluster would make more sense.

EDIT: I was right, just checked and found a couple of references, the most concise of which is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_cluster which seems to agree with what I said above. Yay! :)

Microsoft designed the exFAT file system, so I'm guessing that if they chose 128KB clusters for a 64GB disk then they did it with good reasons, (rather than just pulling figures out of the air). I checked my card and sure enough Sandisk had used 128KB clusters on it - so there's a second piece of evidence for why 128KB is recommended. Of course, you could also follow recommended practice and reformat the card in your phone, then - I'm assuming - Samsung will have made sure that it's formatted appropriately.

"If you wanna know, ya gotta ask" was drummed into me at school, so fire away (not that I'm much removed from "level 1" n00b - lol). You can always say "thanks" and/or hit that "Thanks" button on the good answers. Don't think I'm ever going to stop learning stuff from the good folks on here. :cool:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Look what I found, I couldnt find when they are gonna be available,but Im really excited!

Check the write/read speeds :eek:

http://www.adata-group.com/index.php?action=product_feature&cid=7&piid=178

Someone could try contacting them :) (im at work now and gotta go)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] LeviathanPT:
From what ive heard there werent any smartphones that supported the UHS yet.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] MoJoePin:
posted by another xda user on another thread, I picked this up, great deal!

Kingston 32gb Class 10 $24.99 (ships free to the US + tax)

http://www.target.com/p/kingston-32...c10-32gb/-/A-13737893#?lnk=sc_qi_detailbutton
[Galaxy S III Accessories] The Smoking Man:
Can anyone please give me a hand with choosing the best card?

I'll be picking up the 16GB S3 sometime next week

I have Windows 7 64-bit

I have a SD card reader (supports only SDHC)

I have USB 2.0

I can buy an external SDXC card reader.

I'm trying to decide which MicroSD card to buy.

These are the cards I can get:

ADATA Micro SDHC 32GB UHS-I U1

ADATA Micro SDHC 32GB UHS-I

Kingston Micro SDHC 32GB Class 10

ADATA SDXC 64GB UHS-I U1

SanDisk Micro SDXC 64GB Ultra Class 6

- Is there a noticeable difference in performance between UHS-I U1/UHS-I/Class 10/Class 6 in general? Are they all fast enough for recording and playback of 1080p?

- What's faster? The internal memory or the SD card? And how much?

- Anyone tried to play back some 1080p videos with a high bitrate from the SD card? Any stuttering/lag?

- Will SDXC work properly on my current setup? (I'll be upgrading in the summer)

The only thing I'm concerned about is videos with high bitrate and burst shots. Gracias.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] NoOneCanHelpMe:
Where can u get the new Adata microSDs from?

Ive read that the 64gb sandisk is good, but i have no idea about adata or kingston, i usually buy Sandisk which are very reliable, but be careful where u buy it from as there are fakes floating around :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] karlusmagnus:
Thanks. Ordered as well.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Pivo99:
Which one would be better? also is there a difference between the one with the 1 in the bottom left of the card?

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-micro...QV0E/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1339118300&sr=8-7

vs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...tion&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na
[Galaxy S III Accessories] triStateMindgate:
That's a freaking deal right there...

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I'd go with the Kingston simply because of the class, but imho Sandisk makes the best cards from my experience, never had an issue with them and they tend to get the fastest rates out of all. if you can get a 10 sandisk.

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Spend the extra 5$ and go with Sandisk
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Pivo99:
Tristate... Would you go with the Kingston cause that's a good deal or still spend the extra for the SanDisk?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Gadgetz:
I've always bought Kingston sd and microsd cards and have had great luck. Just a week or two ago I seen a "deal" for a Samsung Class 10 32gb microSD card for $30 shipped so I bought it. Still not a bad deal, IMO, but that deal for the Kingston card is even better. This is the one I got

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-microSD-High-Speed-32GB-MB-MSBGA-US-Memory-Card-/190685368677

I hope it works out :o
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bluebobx:
First off congrats with you new S3. :)

Windows7 is going to be fine for a transfer to the SIII - heck, I've had mine working fine with Linux. Although the videos and music on there at the moment came from my Win7-64 system - and note that my Sandisk card reader also only claims support for (u)SDHC but appears to work fine with uSDXC, so you might not need to buy a new card reader. That said, faster transfer of USB3.0 might be good if you're planning to do a lot of transfers.

Speed ratings: according to the figures I've seen you

need

4-5Mbit/s to read/write 1080p video. So, if you believe the manufacturers figures, then you should be able to do that with a class 2 card (rated speed 16Mbits/s). Personally though it makes zero sense to buy a card that slow - so I'd go for class 6 (48Mbits/s) or class 10 (80Mbits/s). The class 6 Sandisk uSDXC card I've got benchmarks out at a sequential write speed of a fraction over 60Mbit/s.

As to which card choice, they're all good cards. Final decision comes down to cost and/or availability. The class 10 card is nice if you can live with a "mere" 32GB, otherwise 64GB is the natural choice. Whether to go for an UHS-1 card or not is tricky. Based on what I know at the moment, if there's no price difference then sure, otherwise go for something else.

I've got the old (no "1" bottom left) Sandisk 64GB uSDXC and am pretty content with it.

PS I would have thought that the internal memory would always be faster - even if for no other reason than it's presumably not having to go via the card reader in the phone.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] MonkeyMage:
SanDisk or samsung? Got a 64GB SanDisk on ebay for $74?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Gnuig:
I got the same one 3 days ago (32 GB class 10 samsung) :)

In denmark kr. 350,- = approx €47 but I like it, since it's class 10 and the Samsung name... to go with the GS3 ;)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] gg_monogram:
anybody can confirm this with me?

When I was trying to transfer some files using Windows, thru USB, sending to SD card storage is obviously alot slower then sending to Phone storage. Is it because my SD is class4? Coz I heard ppl are saying the max speed of the phone reading is just gonna be Class4 speed, can anyone explain this a little bit for me?