aliceinwootland wrote:In case anyone wants to know, the Class 10 means it operates at 10mbps minimum.

Ugh, this is $30 I don't need to spend. But. So many photos.

from the description, it's recordingat 6 & 9 mbp's, not 10:

■Approximate Minutes of Video
- SP MPEG 2 (6 Mbps): 660
- HD AVCHD/H.264 (9 Mbps): 480

whitehatsforhire wrote:not sure if the Wii will recog. one that big..

any one know for sure?

Absolutely, it will work in the Wii. 32GB is the largest card recognized and supported. Class 10 is also the fastest so games will load quickly from the card. So to answer your question, at $30 it is a good buy. The question is, do you really need 32 GB? 8 GB might still be overkill with downloading a lot of Virtual Console titles, but the price alternative for a card that size is negligibly less.

rabbitinpumpkin wrote:I almost made the same mistake. Amazon has a link to a class 10, but no reviews sadly. I'm always disappointed when these kinds of woots come out and there are no reviews on the product. Either the quality is that low or the demand is just not there.

If the brand is any indicator this is a great card. Centon is one of the best memory makers out now.

eyedeal1 wrote:ditto

amen, to your dittoing of buying three if this was a micro SD.

In for 2. My camera only requires class 6 (the fastest at the time) for HD video (720 or slow 1080). So even if it's class 6 it'll be fine. Hope it doesnt crash and burn

yewslus wrote:That said, in for one for my Nikon.

Check carefully.

Not all cards work with all devices, no matter what the specs day.

I just RMA'ed a Patriot 32GB LX-series SD card because it formats just fine on my D7000, but after five or six photos the camera no longer recognizes the card.

Grabbing one for my DSi XL. I was just considering getting one yesterday, but am not sure i'll even need it for anything, and the cards are expensive. This is a bit less expensive, so... I'm in.

sdc100 wrote:NY State forces Amazon/Woot to collect taxes even though it has absolutely no presence in NY. This is because of the so-called "Amazon Tax Law" it passed, saying that if it did commerce in New York, aka has NY customers, it must collect sales tax and hand it over to NY. Amazon sued and the case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.

Not exactly correct. The NY argument is that Amazon "does" have a presence in the state thru their affiliates.

That is, Amazon offers a program where anyone can sell for Amazon thru an affiliate program. Since some affiliates do live in NY... NY claims they have a presence in the state. 99.9% of companies on line do have an affiliate program. Just scroll down to the bottom of most pages and you'll see a link to affiliates, partners, or whatever.

Does it suck? Yup. Some companies that have affiliate programs have dropped anyone living in NY just for that reason. On the other hand, in order to be liable for taxing, the company must sell over $10k per month in that state. Which Amazon likely does.

At first I wasn't going to get this, despite how badly I wanted it. I haven't seen a price this good for SD memory at class ten, well, ever.

But then I remembered the 3ds takes SD memory. I don't know if I will ever need 32 gigs of memory in my 3ds but it was reason enough for me to fetch this.

Teneniel wrote:I have a first release Wii and it won't recognize anything bigger than 2 gigs. I found this out the hard way. :/

The limit was 4GB on a non-SDHC card. But that said, upgrade your wii firmware online and you can read SDHC >4GB

Perfect for the XOOM I will be buying in a couple weeks!

tax kills the deal

nickdude07 wrote:Absolutely, it will work in the Wii. 32GB is the largest card recognized and supported. Class 10 is also the fastest so games will load quickly from the card. So to answer your question, at $30 it is a good buy. The question is, do you really need 32 GB? 8 GB might still be overkill with downloading a lot of Virtual Console titles, but the price alternative for a card that size is negligibly less.

good point, i have 2 GB now with homebrew and more, still plenty of space left

loatsie wrote:from the description, it's recordingat 6 & 9 mbp's, not 10:

■Approximate Minutes of Video
- SP MPEG 2 (6 Mbps): 660
- HD AVCHD/H.264 (9 Mbps): 480

Those refer to video bitrates (in megabits per second), not the card's rated speed. It's simply stating how much the card can hold at different video qualities. The original post stating that Class 10 = "10mbps" should be read as 10 megabytes per second (capitalization is serious business though, Mb = megabit and MB = megabyte).

Teneniel wrote:I have a first release Wii and it won't recognize anything bigger than 2 gigs. I found this out the hard way. :/

Actually, you just need to update your Wii.

The Wii can take a maximum of 32Gigs exactly, which means this is probably about perfect for it.

Though HOW you'd use that much space on just the Wii would be bewildering to me.

Source: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/sdCards.jsp

Just to clarify the info regarding ReadyBoost:

# Windows Vista x86 & x64 is limited to using 4 GB; this restriction has been removed in Windows 7.

# Windows 7 allows up to eight devices for a maximum of 256 GB of additional memory

I'll be using this to give a nice boost to my Windows 7 PC!

cubbiemi wrote:

- If your getting this to use ReadyBoost on a Vista machine, Don't. Vista caps ReadyBoost at 4GB. Wikipedia Explains ReadyBoost

Gonna roll the dice on these and pop my woot-cherry.

In for 2!

TheBopper wrote:Is this a good buy for the Wii?

Works with Wii if you have the latest updates (4.0 or later)

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/sdCards.jsp

jhtechguy wrote:Since no one posted it yet
"Does this thing work with a Mac?"

Yes, it works with Mac.

This company is known for shoddy materials and workmanship.

http://www.amazon.com/Centon-32GBSDHC6-32GB-CLASS-Flash-Memory/product-reviews/B00200JZCC/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

BEWARE!

Many thank-you's for more good deals, Woot!

radi0j0hn wrote:32 GB = all your eggs in one basket.

Good point, unless you buy more than one. I'd use this big one for longer videos, and then smaller ones for photos, especially with the D90 which also does HD video.

BEWARE dont buy if you want them for HD camcorders which is why I was going to get one ....

http://www.amazon.com/Centon-32GBSDHC6-32GB-CLASS-Flash-Memory/product-reviews/B00200JZCC/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Enough already!!! We have multiple Wooters referring to the same Amazon review over and over again that some Centon cards, where the Class ratings were not as advertised. (i.e. Class 6 cards actually being only Class 4 etc.)

And we also have multiple Wooters offering their two cents by saying "Don't by this brand ...not reliable... brand is no good".

I find it interesting the vast majority of these naysayers don't actually own any Centon cards but are actually basing their opinions on the few negative reviews they've found online. Personally... I take the few negative reviews with a grain of salt.

Research studies have shown, if you go to a restaurant and get bad service and/or a bad meal you are 56% more likely to complain and tell all your friends about how bad everything was. But if the meal / service was great you typically don't mention it to anyone unless a person asks you for a restaurant recommendation.

Class issues aside, I find it interesting that > these 52 reviewers < rate their Centon 16GB cards very high! Gee... they must all be wrong about Centon quality since so many Wooters have jumped on the crap band wagon.

I've got a Nikon D5000...although I read above that they had issues with this card in the D7000, I'm going to try it anyway. I have an event where I will be shooting video, so I'd rather not keep switching cards. In for one.

dokool wrote:In the name of at the very least decent audio quality, can we stop using 128Kbps encodes as the yardstick? 192Kbps minimum, people!

And this post is relevant how?

tman7000 wrote:The reviews on Amazon are not so great if you plan on using this for HD anything...

http://www.amazon.com/Centon-32GBSDHC6-32GB-CLASS-Flash-Memory/product-reviews/B00200JZCC/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

That's an older card labeled as a Class 6

Everyone keeps pointing out the negative comments on Amazon.

I would like to point out a couple things.

1 - The review is for a different card than what is offered here.

2 - Of the 6 bad reviews only 1 is a verified purchase made on Amazon. In fact one mentions getting it from a local store.

3 - One guy mentions that it looks like some sellers are swapping the advertised cards with other cards.

4 - One buyer was mad that Centon did not want to pay the bill to have him return it and ship him a replacement.

Woot! is not going to sell you something that turns out to be different from what they promised and then leave you hanging.

It is 10x more likely someone who has a bad experience is going to write a review. If you read the Woot! boards how often do you see a post of - Mine came in a timely fashion, and works perfectly fine? Or are we more likely to see ZOMG ITS 2 DAYS AFTER THEY SAID IT WOULD BE HERE!

It is possible for a single bad unit to make it past quality control, it does not mean all cards will end up being bad.

Testing the speed of the card is easy and simple. There are a whole set of tools to use to verify the speed and size of flash memory.

Flash memory is often knocked off, Kingston has an entire website to validate their cards. It is possible some reviews are for cards that were fakes. Everyone knows to look for Kingston fakes, who would think someone would knock of Centon? All it takes is a sticker.

jhtechguy wrote:Since no one posted it yet
"Does this thing work with a Mac?"

Yes, if it's a Mac from within the last ten to 15 years it should be just fine.

LAST CALL PEOPLE THIS IS A HELL OF A DEAL!

TheBopper wrote:Is this a good buy for the Wii?

It would work on the Wii; Nintendo says the Wii supports SD cards up to 32 GB if you've updated your Wii firmware to v4.0 or newer. It's highly unlikely that you'd ever use 32 GB of storage on the Wii, but $30 is still cheap for an SD card.

chriscclark01 wrote:I sure do get tired of reading complaints about sales tax, and people blatently avoiding paying it.

When you don't pay your share, all you're doing is driving up the amount of tax that others have to pay.

It seems that you saying that state vary their sales tax rate based on the amount collected or that government bases budgets on actual revenues collected? I have never seen the former and see very little evidence of the latter.

In for two for the D7000, fingers crossed.

Looks like a good buy! In for two.

Havn't wooted in while. Got to use my Gawker Password coupon to save $5 too! Thanks woot!

Does anyone know how (or if) you can use this in lieu of a hard drive in a desktop computer?

sdc100 wrote:NY State forces Amazon/Woot to collect taxes even though it has absolutely no presence in NY. This is because of the so-called "Amazon Tax Law" it passed, saying that if it did commerce in New York, aka has NY customers, it must collect sales tax and hand it over to NY. Amazon sued and the case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.

The question is whether any state has a right to make Amazon (or any company) its unpaid tax collector (thus effectively an uncompensated employee). Especially when the taxes are of no benefit to Amazon, and would even hurt sales (by effectively raising prices). It can be argued that in-state businesses should collect sales tax because the taxes benefit NY, thus indirectly benefit the business. But Amazon has absolutely no presence in NY. Furthermore, if NY wants sales tax, why doesn't NY go after its residents, who are clearly under its physical jurisdiction, rather than Amazon, which has no physical presence?

Even non-NYers should pay attention to this case because many states have similar laws in the works, pending the outcome of Amazon's lawsuit. Needless to say, these laws would change the culture of online commerce since many people shop online to avoid sales tax. In fact, many people would rather pay s/h (which they see as a necessary service fee) than tax.

Personally, I've spent a lot less on Amazon and Buy.com since they started collecting tax -- instead, taking my business to NewEgg, which still does not. And a lot of my money is going to Hong Kong via eBay, especially for small electronics. Let's see NY try to force them to collect taxes! (if NY should force eBay to collect sales tax, I'll just deal with the foreign vendors directly)

They are going after New Yorkers. Consumption taxes are the responsibility of the buyer. The seller only has to collect and account for it, then at the end of the year write a check to the state for the amount they collected. It's hardly an onerous burden... Amazon already does it in states where it has a physical presence. They just don't want to do it in other states because that is a significant perceived advantage of Internet sales that offsets the fact that the buyer has to pay shipping (in most cases).

So this isn't unfairly burdening Amazon, they just like the status quo because it gives them an unfair advantage over their brick-and-mortar competitors. If I was Amazon, I'd certainly fight it... but the state of NY is in the right, insofar as the state has the right to levy consumption taxes. It is NOT taxing Amazon one cent... the state is taxing its own citizens who buy through Amazon, just as it would tax its citizens who walk into a Walmart and buy something. It is closing a tax loophole.

And regarding foreign vendors, you are responsible for customs duties. Surely you are in compliance with federal laws... after all, you don't have to agree with a law to be prosecuted for violating it.

Does this work with the nook?

ArbysNight wrote:Does anyone know how (or if) you can use this in lieu of a hard drive in a desktop computer?

You could, but there are lots of reasons not to. Speed being the first one. This will be noticeably slower than a hard drive.

The first big hurdle is making sure your desktop supports booting from SD. It works for most netbooks nowdays.
Then it is a matter of prepping the card.
I've made bootable flash drives that Windows PE based toolkits to fix computers, so I am sure using an SD card would work the same.

People who own netbooks often use large cards like this to try different operating systems out. I know I had played with the MeeGo OS on my netbook once upon a time.

Bouncing, means sellout is near.

It's good to see that people are buying these for the Nintendo products that support them. For what it's worth, this would also be a good purchase for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo has said it will support 3D movies on its screen, and that's most likely gonna take a huge/fast memory card to handle. This would be a good choice, I would think, in both regards.