I was going to buy a 8GB MSduo from sony when I noticed this unbranded one for almost a third of the price. I've heard about these unbranded sticks, they say these are not as bad as imitations, but not much better either, specially the big ones which somebody told me get pretty unstable when you reach full capacity. But the price is great, I can even get a 16GB one for less than the 8GB sony model. But is it worth it?
I used SanDisk ones without having any issues. I'm at work and they blocked your second link, so I can't see if thats SanDisk or not. But I have had great success with SanDisk. They also tend to run 50%-60% the cost of "name brand". edit: stupid typos
I wouldnt. It isnt worth the hassle. Even if it happens to work for a short while, there is a higher likelyhood of it just dying, or corrupting all your data. Id rather have my data relatively safe on a 8gb stick of quality, then a crappy 16gb stick. Not that I ever carry 8gb of data anyway.
With that I'd probably have to say blow your hand off At least with a semi-name brand your paying less but still getting quality. Come to think of it, since 99% of places carry more Sandisk than official brands, I would consider SanDisk a namebrand of sorts.
Well I use a fake sandisk 4gb for my PSP; and it works fine. So I guess its fine to use a fake one, if its cheaper. (and just keep a backup of the data on your pc)
I easily carry more than that with me on my Jump Drive. Its a 16 thats usually at least half full. When I'm on my lappy, I can't always get online to have access to my svn, so I carry several revisions of source on there just in case, that and converted movies and handy utilities. Oh and Quake3 portable
mind you ladies, SanDisk IS flash technology (as in they took part in the early stages of creation if I recall correctly). Their products are of much higher quality than any other manufacturer out there. History Eli Harari began making early contributions to EEPROM - electrically erasable programmable read-only memory, a precursor to flash memory. Harari worked on flash memory at Intel, leaving to found a start-up which failed. In 1988, Harari launched the company that would become SanDisk with former Intel colleague Sanjay Mehrotra, and former Hughes Microelectronics colleague Jack Yuan.[1] Early on, Sandisk recognized that digital cameras would need digital storage, and computers could become ever more mobile and light and would require a similar storage technology. In 1988 Harari offered the flash memory card technology to Kodak for inclusion in their cameras. Kodak offered to fund the development with the condition that SanDisk offer a three year exclusive contract for the 'digital film'. Harari and Sandisk rejected the offer, preferring to have competition in the marketplace.[1]
I have a cheap crap 4gb Mem stick Duo and it doesn't work properly in my PSP. Fine for music but homebrew won't run.
Sandisk is the toppest brand in my view. Professional photographers I know use high-end SanDisk stuff. They offer lower prices because they can.
I'd definatley go with sandisk most of my memory cards like SD, MMC. MSDUO, USB and CF are 95% sandisk and i've never been let down once with any of them. Also they are normally quite cheap depending where you get them from.
All flash memory will die sooner or later, however branded memory I find does last longer and I would recommed Sandisk branded media. I did buy a cheap 2gb SD memory card when I was in Hong Kong last year and it died a few months ago (well not die but it won't write correctly if formatted as FAT past 1.2GB, seems fine in NTFS but not much use outside a PC...) but Sandisk CF cards I've had since 2000 have worked flawlessly despite being used a SSHD in a Toshiba Libretto)
BTW, whats up with M2 memory sticks? I can get an 8GB one for between $10 and $20 LESS than a standard Duo, adapter included. Are M2s slower or something?
M2 cards are slower then a Pro Duo, I have a 1GB M2 and a 1GB Pro Duo and it can take a few more minutes to write files to the M2. Although Sandisks Ultra series of SD cards are another matter.
Also, If you like to run your games off of the memory stick like I do ( for the sake of not carrying a ton of UMD's around), or if homebrew, emulators and PS1 games are your thing, I would ONLY get an official Sony or a Sandisk. I have 3 MSDuo's ( 1 sony, 1 sandisk and 1 lexar) and the lexar card will not let me run homebrew or play games off of it. The sony and the sandisk are fine, however. Also, the Lexar takes longer to read/write to than the other 2, the Sony and the Sandisk are about the same as far as R/W time goes. Hope i was of some assistance!:icon_bigg
Talking with one of the guys at work, highspeed sandisk outperform official sony in terms of speed on his psp
I just wanted to chime in and say that I've owned a few different SanDisk flash-gizmos (SD, SDHC, and thumbdrive). My 256mb SanDisk flash drive is the first one I ever bought and it still works fine. I wish I could find it, though... In my experience, they're top-notch quality and they're usually the first brand I look for just because I've never had a problem with them (although this isn't to say I've had problems with other brands of flash, either). The card in my camera is a little slow, but I think I knew that when I bought it. Buy SanDisk.
In my opinion, Sandisks have always been the best option (certainly in terms of price anyway). I'd always recommend to stay well away from cheap unbranded sticks - you'd be mighty pissed if you lose 50 hours of gameplay to a shoddy stick. Also stear clear of ANY cheap sticks on ebay - they're gonna be fake, and they're gonna die on you. By the way, heres an interesting prog some of you might be interested in. Benchmarking for your MS! I haven't tried it - but it sounds interesting.. http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.trisaster.de/forum/index.php%3FPHPSESSID%3Dqd7j46vavv43mqse3il8hinav7%26topic%3D873.0&usg=ALkJrhirWsdr3viUI8y1G2j_SLd2tGyPIw (german to english via google) Edit: whoops wrong link
