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What SDHC cards are best?

Daniel Regli

September 10, 2009 21:10

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We are about to install 9 pcs. HD210 and 1 pc 2000 in a 10 Channel synchro playout solution. What is the "perfect" SDHC chip to use? We are playing back MPEG-2 HD files 1080/50P (datarate 20 Mbit/s)!

- What about the SanDisc EXTREME III?

Thx & regards from Switzerland!

Dan

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  RokuLyndon September 10, 2009 22:48

  
  
  What you need is an SDHC card that will give you at least 3 - 4 Megabytes per second throughput. Unfortunately, we can't test that on your units because the 210 doesn't have a serial port. If it did, we could run a readperf test on the card to verify it performed as advertised.
  
  
  
  A Class 6 SDHC is rated to perform that well. The sandisk cards normally perform well. I haven't come across any specific brand that performs poorly. But, sometimes manufacturers make changes that affect the cards so that they don't perform as advertised.
  
  
  
  I have a PNY Optima that works well. I've had some experience with Kingston and ATP SDHC cards as well.
  
  
  
  But, any class 6 SDHC card should be able to playback 20Mbps files. I don't know if you have enough time to test more than one brand.
  
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  Neil.C September 21, 2009 17:53

  
  
  

  "Topbuster" wrote:

  We are about to install 9 pcs. HD210 and 1 pc 2000 in a 10 Channel synchro playout solution. What is the "perfect" SDHC chip to use? We are playing back MPEG-2 HD files 1080/50P (datarate 20 Mbit/s)!
  
  - What about the SanDisc EXTREME III?
  
  Thx & regards from Switzerland!
  
  Dan

  
  
  
  
  Hi Dan,
  
  
  
  We recently ran a trail on the HD1010's using 1080i content on the Sandisk Extreme III's. No problems at all with playback. Here is the exact one we used :
  
  
  
  <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cpc.farnell.com/sandisk/sd4902/memory-8gb-sdhc-extreme-iii-30mb/dp/CS16904">http://cpc.farnell.com/sandisk/sd4902/m ... dp/CS16904</a><!-- m -->