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Patriot Signature Microsdhc Memory Psf32gmcsdhc10
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Patriot Signature Microsdhc Memory Psf32gmcsdhc10
According to the manufacturers of this card on their own forums, this does not work in the right manner in Android or Windows phones. I guess it is a problem with the way this card is partitioned or formatted. Symptoms of the problem are regular freezing of the phone you put it in (requiring a battery pull to reset) and the card ultimately becoming corrupted (losing all the info that is on it and needing a reformat). On the official recognition of the troubles posted to their forums they give no indication of what we are supposed to do with these cards that don’t work. It might be possible to repartition and reformat this card yourself to get it to work but I haven’t been successful at that yet.
I’m not certain how a card that fails in the tremendous majority of appliances you would use it in gets released and hasn’t been recalled yet. It is too bad as Partiot is normally a decent producers I have contacted assist asking them what I am supposed to do with my defective cards but have yet to get a response. I don’t want to return them because these will be swell cards when the difficulties get sorted out (they are very fast), but right now they are worse than useless as they make any device I put them in unstable and corrupt any info I put on them.
I unquestionably can’t commend this card right now unless you don’t plan to use it in a phone or tablet (which is regarding the only reason I may think of to purchase a microsdhc card).
Update: Patriot assist was not able to help me but they said they were more than more than willing to RMA in interchange for a class 4 (which will hopefully work). Sure I paid for a class 10 and a class 4 would have been fewer expensively in the original place, but I just want something that works at this point so I am willing to swap for something slower whether or not it fixes the difficultnesses
I was a bit skeptical when getting this card, because it is priced importantly fewer than other 16GB Class 10 cards on the market, but since it’s a new product and it’s for my phone, I was willing to take a bit of a gamble after seeing a couple of other positive reviews around the web.
I’m glad I did! This card performs swell and gives me a outstanding deal of storage space. I ran one of the numerous available free benchmarking tools on it (you may find a great deal on Google) and it wrote to all of the storage space to verify there were no troubles with the card. It clocked the write speed at 11.6MB/sec, and the read at 17.5MB/sec, so the speed lay claim by Patriot contains up. I popped the card into my HTC Evo phone and it was great seeing how much quicker applications stored on the SD card were loading up.
Note: I ended up buying the card on Newegg because it was quite a bit cheaper there than Amazon’s current price, as well with free shipping. However it looks like Amazon has hence dropped the price, so I commend comparing the two before buying.
This card is super fast. My speed test on my HTC Evo 4g write =11mb/s and read= 15mb/s… I am very happy with my purchased My old card was by sandisk 32gb class 2 and my speeds were write 8mb/s and read 1.75mb/s….great improvement!!!!
Side note I purchased from NatechGadgets and my ordered was delivered 20 hours after I ordered it.
My best purchase this year!!!!!
I got this to run Honeycomb (Android 3.0) on my Nook. Speed is quite capable and size is more than sufficient. Now I have a great $275 tablet running the latest Google software. Life is good.
I bought this Class 10 16GB microSDHC card for my Motorola Atrix 4G phone. Having a relatively fast phone, I did not want to compromise on the speed of the SD card, so I opted for the class 10 (the class indicates minimum write speed). I was not disappointed:
AnTutu System Benchmark Results
- SD Card Write 12.1 MB/s
- SD Card Read 15.5 Mb/s
Based on other users’ reports, this seems pretty good (SanDisk Class 4: W 9MB/s, R17MB/s; Wintec Class 10 32GB Micro SD: W8.7 MB/s; R16.0 MB/s)
The packaging said there’s a 5 year warranty on the card, so that’s nice. I haven’t had a danger to test the SD card adapter (probably won’t use it anyways) but they both came in a neat small plastic case which is useful for storage and carrying whether or not the microSD card ever needs to be removed from the phone.
Bought this card to root my Nook. Worked great. Formatted it after the root to use as extra storage and run Apps that need a card. It’s been in the Nook ever since. Two weeks later, my Nook no longer sees the card. When I pull it and put it back in it tells me the card is damaged or corrupted and it needs to be reformatted. It works for a short time and then it’s corrupted again.
Bought this Patriot 16GB Class 10 microSDHC memory card from Amazon. On 3/21/11 I ran 3 benchmark tests on its Write speeds: 17.4, 17.6, and 17.6 MB/sec. Read speeds: 19.4, 19.8, and 19.8 MB/sec. Wow! Excellent speed performance!
2 days later I inserted the card into the card reader, and no response! Tried 2 other card readers on 2 dissimilar computers — no response. Then I tried 2 Sandisk and and 2 no-name brand microsdhc cards on the same card readers and computers, and they all worked fine. Of course I tried the Patriot 16 GB once more, but no go.
Boo hoo, my speedy Patriot 16GB is dead, after just 3 days! Buyer BEWARE!
P.S. This is not a negative review of AMAZON. They’ve already given me a prepaid return label. I’ve only had OUTSTANDING service from AMAZON. Thank you, Jeff Bezos and Company!
If you’re looking to buy a Patriot Signature MicroSDHC card then don’t buy this. The description is wrong. It is in fact part of the LX series. Nowhere on the packaging is there any mention of Signature, which is what I paid an extra ten dollars for. There is, however, a giant LX label on it is I searched NewEgg’s wares and there is a big difference in packaging. LX is supposed to be Patriot’s lower-grade line and that’s why I went with the Signature. if you search the model number you will find results with pictures that show it is clearly LX. So if you plan on purchasing a specific type of sd or microsd card then I suggest you search the model number before you commit to buy.
Not much to tell. I necessitated lots of space for my phone and this is its Registers as 30.91 GB and the most immediate I got it to write at was 9.77 MB/s. I had bought a cheap class 2 off of ebay for $20 and it screwed up the same day I got it is Some things you just have to pay full price for.
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Update: Found a program for testing memory cards and here are the results. Also, my card did screw up one time, but I don’t recognise if it was the phone or the card. Reformatted and everything was okay.
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Sequential Read : 19.882 MB/s
Sequential Write : 17.003 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 19.642 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 2.059 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.254 MB/s [ 1038.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.019 MB/s [ 4.7 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.577 MB/s [ 1117.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.026 MB/s [ 6.3 IOPS]
Test : 50 MB [K: 3.2% (1.0/30.9 GB)] (x1)
Worked great when I basi received it; read/write speeds just as described. But after less than a month my phone would get started locking up and I would have to pull the battery to get it to reboot. Soon after it would lock up whenever it tried to access the card. Now neither the phone or my laptop will recognize the card at all. My selective information is now lost (and unrecoverable since nothing I attempt will even see the card is there.) Not the only one who is having this problem from what I can see on forums around the ‘net. This is going back… recommend you remain away from this card!