Which Sansa Player can do these things?

[steinburger1109]

On which cards to use, I like SanDisk, and a class 4 card will suit you fine, you don't need anything higher, maybe you can save some moolah that way.

[CrowdAds]

[dfkt]

Even a quality class 2 is faster than the internal reader of all these players can handle.

[djfonplaz]

Originally Posted by Enigmatic

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum...5&postcount=11.
http://www.amazon.it/SanDisk-Sansa-L...4738343&sr=1-2.

Yeah man, I already read it But it will works (I mean 32gb) only running RockBox? I hope not...

[Enigmatic]

Originally Posted by djfonplaz

But it will works (I mean 32gb) only running RockBox?

http://www.sandisk.com/media/343157/...m_0809_eng.pdf, PDF page 8:

MicroSD/SDHC card slot supports additional 4GB* and higher capacities.

[djfonplaz]

Oh...so 32gb works! Nice one...hope to find a 8gb model sooner on internet. Didnt see any good auctions on my country (at the moment only one at 95€).

I think I'll buy a KINGSTON 32 GB CLASS 4 (FAT32, as the internal Fuze memory I think), what do you think about? CLASS higher will be better? Or it doesnt make differences?

[Enigmatic]

Originally Posted by djfonplaz

I think I'll buy a KINGSTON 32 GB CLASS 4 (FAT32, as the internal Fuze memory I think), what do you think about? CLASS higher will be better? Or it doesnt make differences?

You might get faster transfers loading the card. But other than that, I do not think it makes much of a difference. If you do not care that much about transfer speeds, a class 2 will do.

[djfonplaz]

Ok...so that's would be ok! I think i get all informations! I'll proceed with purchase in the next days, and I'll let you know how it works when I got it Thanks again to everybody, expecially to Enigmatic!

[Mikerman]

I have 1 or 2 Kingston cards and they work just fine. I do note that their speed seems to be as rated, not faster. With some cards, especially SanDisk, I seem to get faster-than-rated speeds.

[djfonplaz]

In which terms these cards are faster/rated/slower? When I open the player? When I move the files from pc to the device? On playing?

[Lagoo56]

Speed of a SD card does not have any benefit when they are being used on a simple MP3 player,you won't notice any difference for playing or opening,speed only matters for cameras and other recording devices. Either way if a 32GB card is bought and used in an MP3 player,it will still take awhile to copy all files to the card.

[JK98]

I did some tests with a Class 10 card and my Clip+ and Fuze v1. With files averaging around 15MB, I got write speeds of under 2MB/s to the card in my Fuze, and around 4.4MB/s for my Clip+. So getting a class 10 card for a Clip+ is a waste, but getting a class 4 card makes sense. i don't know about the Fuze v2, although I don't imagine its card reader is faster than the Clip+. I don't know how fast the reader is in the Clip Zip. Anyone here try writing to a class 10 card in a Clip Zip? How fast was it?

My class 10 card is only 8GB, so it ws just a few dollars more than class 4. Decent 16GB and 32GB class 10 cards can be almost double the price of decent class 4 ones.
My Kingston 8GB class 4 card was written to in my Clip+ at around 3.8MB/s, while using a USB card reader I got write speeds of around 8MB/s with the same files.

[steinburger1109]

^Yup. Simple media playback doesn't need to be a high-class card. Like JK98 says, you will notice a difference in write speeds, to an extent, but most of the time that doesn't matter that much to people.

[Mikerman]

Originally Posted by djfonplaz

In which terms these cards are faster/rated/slower? When I open the player? When I move the files from pc to the device? On playing?

In loading files onto the card (and I forget--this may be only when the card is in a card reader and not the Clip). Not in the general operation within the Clips.

[JK98]

Filling a 32GB card at 2MB/s would take over 4 hours! I guess most people don't completely fill a 32GB card all at once, but still having it filled 2-4x as fast would be quite beneficial.

[djfonplaz]

Well, I think that time copying files from computer to device (on microsd) doesnt matter so much (ok, it will be 4 hours, but you will copy 32gb not so many time in your life). If I need faster transfers, I'll copy on device memory (which should be more faster, right?).

What will be a problem is if the player take 4 hours when I open it (reading files on microSD), but I hope the time is less, am I right?

What can you say about this reading on opening device?

[Mikerman]

No, the Clip's reading of the microSD card doesn't take 4 hours. However, a Clip+ database refresh with my Class 4 Patriot microSD card can take 20 minutes, the last time I timed it.

[djfonplaz]

Originally Posted by Mikerman

No, the Clip's reading of the microSD card doesn't take 4 hours. However, a Clip+ database refresh with my Class 4 Patriot microSD card can take 20 minutes, the last time I timed it.

Do you mean every time you turn on the device it takes 20 minuts to open?

[Enigmatic]

Originally Posted by djfonplaz

Do you mean every time you turn on the device it takes 20 minuts to open?

The database needs time to refresh whenever one changes content on the Fuze. Please take a look at the following thread for the solution to that problem.

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum...ad.php?t=57248.

[djfonplaz]

Oh...so this long time is only when I connect on PC. That's normal I think, I don't mind about it. I thought it takes time when I run it. Thanks man!!!

Found it from UK less € on ebay, but I don't understand if it's V1 or V2... how can I learn this?

(hope this is not considered as spam...)

[razorblader]

Originally Posted by djfonplaz

Oh...so this long time is only when I connect on PC. That's normal I think, I don't mind about it. I thought it takes time when I run it. Thanks man!!!

Found it from UK less € on ebay, but I don't understand if it's V1 or V2... how can I learn this?

(hope this is not considered as spam...)

You can always ask the seller but I guess it's a relatively safe bet that it'll be a v2 as v1 has been out of production for quite a while.

The FW version (OF) of the player will tell which version it is.