Hey all. Was in Tesco looking for cheap microSD cards, and found these. They are marked up at £10, but scanning for £3.50. They were in the car section of Brislington Tesco in Bristol.
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vassy1
24 Sep 17#1
What brand are they??
PillowDefender to vassy1
24 Sep 17#2
Dunno if you can see the picture, but the packaging just says balance point? They also have a lifetime warranty
vassy1 to PillowDefender
24 Sep 17#4
Couldnt get the picture enlarged in chrome. Thanks
PillowDefender to vassy1
24 Sep 17#5
Ah, no bother mate, wasn't being funny. Just an generic brand by the looks of things, in a white, grey and green card packaging.
Class 4? Jeezus H Christ! I thought they stopped making those in the early 2000s.
Performance is likely to be hideously slow.
cicobuff to Picard123
24 Sep 17#9
Class 4 is absolutely fine depending on what you are utilising these cards for, to categorically state they will be 'hideously slow' is ridiculous.
Bought two this afternoon from a local Tesco for use in my PS Vita now it has customised with a SD2Vita adapter. Considering that the proprietary Vita memory card functions anywhere between equivalent of Class 2 - 6, Class 4 Micro SD will suffice for my needs.
Heat added, thanks for the heads up OP, 64GB worth of storage for my Vita for just £7. Emulation here I come.
Picard123 to cicobuff
24 Sep 17#12
Don't be daft.
I have a Class 4 no brand card that is absolutely hopeless for recording higher bit rate video.
Oneday77 to Picard123
24 Sep 17#14
Ehhh maybe because anyone who cares to check, knows Class 4 isn't for that type of application. Extra storage in a phone, dashcam, Raspberry Pi, etc. all fine.
Why is it when any electronic device is posted, some one always ahs to try and state it is rubbish?
If I put petrol in my diesel car it won't go as fast as if I fill it with diesel (not fully true the engine will fail spectacularly much faster). Does that mean as a fuel for the right car it's useless?
cicobuff to Oneday77
24 Sep 17#17
Had an argument a couple of years ago with someone on here after I had posted a deal on a Kingston 64GB Micro USB stick. They were complaining it was worthless as the write speed was slow.
They just did not seem to get that once again it was all dependent on its usage. In our car for Ford Sync it is absolutely fine, it may take slightly longer to write the MP3 files to the device, but in reading them it does the job just fine.
Just so happens this card actually also punches above its class 4 branding, unless anyone feels that speedout is not an accurate utility and that I should try something else, happy to experiment.
PillowDefender to Oneday77
24 Sep 17#19
I agree, bought 3 of those cheap dash cams from the post the other day, works fine. £6 for the cam, and £3.50 for the memory, I'm pretty happy.
zaheer2003 to Oneday77
24 Sep 17#20
dashcam will kill this card in a few months,
Picard123 to Oneday77
26 Sep 17#51
That's the dumbest analogy ever.
Why don''t you try putting strawberry jam in your diesel car and use that as an example.
Dog slow card is a dog slow card no matter what dumb analogies you use.
cicobuff to Picard123
26 Sep 17#55
Performing perfectly fine in my PS Vita for what I am using it for, emulation.....now engage your brain and stop using useless comparisons, any class 4 card never claims to be suitable for writing large bitrate video files, can you not seem to understand that for £3.50 it is a bargain for anyone that has no need for such or are you just throwing your dummy in the dirt because either you are jealous you cannot get the deal yourself, or just plainly ignorant to reasoning.
Picard123 to cicobuff
26 Sep 17#58
A PS what?? LOL. You bought one of these to play Chuckie Egg???
Get one of these - you can save your Chuckie Egg games faster! :grin:
cicobuff to Picard123
27 Sep 17#60
Surprised you are old enough to remember Chuckie Egg, really thought with your immaturity in this thread that you were born post-Xbox 360 release.
cicobuff to Picard123
24 Sep 17#15
Class 4 is absolutely fine depending on its usage, what a ridiculous thing to say, and besides this card performs well above its weight anyway.
Let's make it easy for you, perhaps you might learn something.......
If you were using a Class 4 card that actually has read/write speeds of a Class 4 card then you should already know that it is not suitable for recording large HD Video files.
notoriouschucky to cicobuff
24 Sep 17#29
hey dude
does your vita have to be 'cracked' to be able to use this SD2Vita adaptor?
cicobuff to notoriouschucky
24 Sep 17#30
If you are above 3.60 firmware currently there is no way, otherwise look up Henkaku enso for jailbreaking the Vita and enabling the gamecard slot to utilise microsd cards with an adapter.
cicobuff
24 Sep 17#10
Just to add they were in the car section of Stourbridge Tesco, bought two, two left on the shelf, no price shown on shelf rod.
cicobuff
24 Sep 17#11
Here are the results from Speedtest,
Given that gives UHS 3 performance of over 30MB/S write speed for a dubbed Class 4 UHS 1 class card, I think it is a veritable bargain.
Similar results from the second card I have.
Cards are branded Good RAM SDHC Class 4 UHS1
Picard123 to cicobuff
24 Sep 17#21
LOL. Use a proper, established benchmarking tool like Crystal and ATTO, not that meaningless and unreliable 'SpeedOut' junk.
Oneday77 to Picard123
24 Sep 17#22
:cry: :cry: :cry:
Malabus
24 Sep 17#13
The product brand is BALANCE PAINT.
cicobuff to Malabus
24 Sep 17#16
No, the product brand is Balance Point, the card itself inside the cardboard is actually branded Good RAM
cicobuff
24 Sep 17#18
hannibalhorn to cicobuff
25 Sep 17#35
I appreciate the effort in getting a sheet with a pattern which matches the green branding on the SD card packaging. There are some very helpful people on here and a few miserable minnies!
freshprinceofmacmerry
24 Sep 17#23
Wow, some people seem to have got out the wrong side of bed. If you don’t like the product/deal why bother commenting and making yourself look like an ass?
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They were in the car section of Brislington Tesco in Bristol.
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if you need a picture let me know
goodram.com/pro…-4/
Performance is likely to be hideously slow.
Bought two this afternoon from a local Tesco for use in my PS Vita now it has customised with a SD2Vita adapter. Considering that the proprietary Vita memory card functions anywhere between equivalent of Class 2 - 6, Class 4 Micro SD will suffice for my needs.
Heat added, thanks for the heads up OP, 64GB worth of storage for my Vita for just £7. Emulation here I come.
I have a Class 4 no brand card that is absolutely hopeless for recording higher bit rate video.
Extra storage in a phone, dashcam, Raspberry Pi, etc. all fine.
Why is it when any electronic device is posted, some one always ahs to try and state it is rubbish?
If I put petrol in my diesel car it won't go as fast as if I fill it with diesel (not fully true the engine will fail spectacularly much faster). Does that mean as a fuel for the right car it's useless?
They just did not seem to get that once again it was all dependent on its usage. In our car for Ford Sync it is absolutely fine, it may take slightly longer to write the MP3 files to the device, but in reading them it does the job just fine.
Just so happens this card actually also punches above its class 4 branding, unless anyone feels that speedout is not an accurate utility and that I should try something else, happy to experiment.
Why don''t you try putting strawberry jam in your diesel car and use that as an example.
Dog slow card is a dog slow card no matter what dumb analogies you use.
Get one of these - you can save your Chuckie Egg games faster! :grin:
Let's make it easy for you, perhaps you might learn something.......
If you were using a Class 4 card that actually has read/write speeds of a Class 4 card then you should already know that it is not suitable for recording large HD Video files.
does your vita have to be 'cracked' to be able to use this SD2Vita adaptor?
Given that gives UHS 3 performance of over 30MB/S write speed for a dubbed Class 4 UHS 1 class card, I think it is a veritable bargain.
Similar results from the second card I have.
Cards are branded Good RAM SDHC Class 4 UHS1