Talk:SD compatibility list
Other compatibility reports
mvickers03 has previously reported on July 25, 2010, that his 16GB Kingston class 4 card "works well"... that seems to be in direct contradiction to this list.
There are also some other reports in that thread that could be added to this list, perhaps. Esn 04:31, 1 April 2011 (MEST)
Prometheus confirms that the Kingston cards work for her: [1]. But, to quote: "The problem is this: Kingston is a restickering brand - they do not manufacture their own chips, so you have no idea what you will get with any given card.
That is to say, I'm afraid it's completely impossible to confirm for you whether Kingston's cards will work or not, because it changes per card."
Please read the rest of the comment at the above link. Esn 05:39, 1 April 2011 (MEST)
- So what's the threshold for a card manufacturer to get a yellow rating instead of a red one? If the cards work 50% of the time? 90%? 99%? Also, many people aren't testing the cards thoroughly, just copying a few files and saying "it works". -- Nyan 12:36, 1 April 2011 (MEST)
- Well, the way I did it is yellow means that cards work well with one format but not with another. For example, my Patriot 32GB card has worked well with FAT32 over the past few months, but apparently it doesn't work with ext2/3/4. More information should be added in the "notes" column. So I guess "yellow" basically means that you won't have any problems if you choose the right file system. I don't know enough about this to know whether that's a workable definition or not. Esn 06:19, 3 April 2011 (MEST)
- Okay, I was just wondering, since you marked nearly all the "problem" cards yellow. Some of these need to be tested further to confirm that the problem really is limited to non-FAT32 filesystems. -- Nyan 18:36, 3 April 2011 (MEST)
- Then that's something that can be mentioned in the "notes", if they haven't been fully tested; these colours are only approximations... I was just getting the ball rolling, really. Esn 05:11, 4 April 2011 (MEST)
- Okay, I was just wondering, since you marked nearly all the "problem" cards yellow. Some of these need to be tested further to confirm that the problem really is limited to non-FAT32 filesystems. -- Nyan 18:36, 3 April 2011 (MEST)
- Well, the way I did it is yellow means that cards work well with one format but not with another. For example, my Patriot 32GB card has worked well with FAT32 over the past few months, but apparently it doesn't work with ext2/3/4. More information should be added in the "notes" column. So I guess "yellow" basically means that you won't have any problems if you choose the right file system. I don't know enough about this to know whether that's a workable definition or not. Esn 06:19, 3 April 2011 (MEST)
Change title to "SD compatibility list"?
There are also "SDXC" and "SD" cards so I would change the title to the most generic one: SD. T4b 13:45, 21 April 2011 (MEST)
- I would prefer short titles for the articles as well. Longer titles can be faked by redirect stubs. --ABC 15:14, 21 April 2011 (MEST)
