Bargain 512GB Micro SD Card

[MrQuade]

Just one I spotted this morning, for anyone keen to add a whack of internal storage into the V2.

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/481021

$120 delivered.
This is a U3 class card, but doesn't have an "Application performance rating" as far as I can make out.

The U3 rating specifies the maximum and minimum speed of the card, whereas application performance is more about the sustained random performance and IOPS. (It's possible the A1/A2 ratings are also smoke and mirrors too, depending on what device you are suing to read/write from).
This card should still be more than enough for typical use of the V2 though I imagine.

[prl]

depending on what device you are suing to read/write from

Surely it shouldn't be necessary to lawyer up just to access your own data?

[prl]

Good price, though.

[MrQuade]

Here is another one from Ozbargain.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/482876

This one is U3 and A2 rated, and cheaper.

The promo deal is finished, but the regular price is still very good.

[flipch]

The Samsung EVO plus seems to get better reviews and performance than the Lexar, though both similar. The Samsung is supposed to have a slightly faster burst write speed (90Mbps vs 70).

Currently the Samsung EVO Plus 512GB Micro is at https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Samsung-EVO ... wEDBdld~x for $135.75 with discount code, plus postage.

The Lexar 512GB is cheaper at $115.95 and free postage at https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lexar-Micro ... Sw1pxdZywe

[MrQuade]

Here is another bargain, this time for a 256GB Samsung Evo Plus. $55.20 delivered.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/488431

[MrQuade]

Must have been a deal as it sold out instantly .

How does $48.76 sound though?
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/488464

[flipch]

How does $48.76 sound though?

Same place I ordered my 512GB from (listed on that same deal you linked).

[anthonym]

Prices are up again now.

Just one quick question, is there a benefit to getting such a large SD card? If you use it to time shift it's overkill and if you use it to record shows onto it will fill up pretty soon I'd imagine. So just wondering if there's another benefit to a larger card that I can't think of?

I've just taken the plunge to upgrade my old P2 (which still does everything fine except deal with the new HD stations) and am wondering how I'm going to set up my new toy.

[MrQuade]

A 500GB card is plenty big enough of you only need it for occasional recording. The original DP series shipped with hard drives that size, so it is a familiar option for some who are upgrading.

I still think though that it is best used as local storage for timeshift and cache purposes, and recordings can go to a plug in drive or nas, so for that, you are right, a big card would be overkill.

It's just nice to point out the bargains to give people the option .

[MrQuade]

Amazon are doing a cheap 400 GB card at the moment, $89 delivered.

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07FCQRN9K ... psc=1&th=1

I've read that prices for flash memory and memory in general may be set to fall towards the end of the year due to an oversupply.
Expect more bargains to come!

[MrQuade]

More Amazon deals on Sandisk Extreme SD cards. The prices don't seem to be particularly special, but the cards should be good ones.

[Star6key]

I bought this for the V2. We'll see how it goes.

[MrQuade]

I bought this for the V2. We'll see how it goes.

Fingers crossed. The U1 rating will be working against it if it is pushed too hard I am thinking.

[Star6key]

Well I do have a 3TB portable drive plugged in so I imagine I'll do most of the recording on that. The sd card will be just in case of hd failure, and to store other files.

[MrQuade]

Well I do have a 3TB portable drive plugged in so I imagine I'll do most of the recording on that. The sd card will be just in case of hd failure, and to store other files.

Yep, that's a decent plan.
Remember too that the SD card will be mounted as "HDD", and any USB drives will then no longer be shared by default.
In your case, if you are sharing the root directory, this is less of a problem, but this can also be worked around by shaing each of the drive movie folders separately.

Having your backups, timeshift and logs going to the SD card will mean that USB drives can be mounted and unmounted on the fly as required (or at least it should allow that!).


Meanwhile, I'd noticed that the Amazon US store has the Samsung Evo SD cards down cheap at the moment too.

[Star6key]

...
Having your backups, timeshift and logs going to the SD card will mean that USB drives can be mounted and unmounted on the fly as required (or at least it should allow that!).
...

My thoughts exactly. Once I get around to playing with OpenATV, I imagine I could store the rom images there as well.

[MrQuade]

My thoughts exactly. Once I get around to playing with OpenATV, I imagine I could store the rom images there as well.

Possibly. Though the most recent recovery images support booting multiple firmware images off internal flash if preferred. The V2 has a stack of internal flash. A nice future enhancement to the Beyonwiz firmware would be a multiboot-friendly featureset.

prl has managed to get his v2 multibooting, but its not something I have personally been too inspired to try.

[prl]

prl has managed to get his v2 multibooting, but its not something I have personally been too inspired to try.

The ATV I'm currently running can't install images correctly. If I, say, am running in ATV and tell it to flash an ATV image to slot 2 (where it's running) from, it flashes to slot 1 and clobbers my Beyonwiz image (which I can't install anywhere else). To flash an ATV image, I have to rename it so that it looks like a ViX image and put it in the ViX directory for downloaded images, then run ViX and flash the renamed image to the correct slot.

Setting up the multiboot at the start was a bit tricky, but I eventually go there. I think I had to flash ViX into slot 1 from a recovery image, clear the partition table on the mocroSD card and then partition the SD card from the image manager in ViX.

ViX and ATV now come with a fancy new boot program that allows you to partition the microSD card. It also partitions the internal flash, so I'm too chicken to try that, out of fear that either I won't be able to get the Beyonwiz firmware to flash into an already-existing slot, or that it will just overwrite the partition table and clobber any other images I have on internal flash.

Also, a Beyonwiz install from USB installs /boot/START_* files that are incompatible with ViX, and have to be edited to allow ViX to start up without getting into a GUI restart loop. Fortunately, thous changes are backwards compatible with Beyonwiz and ATV firmware.

tl;dr - not for the faint of heart

[MrQuade]

Seems like some decent deals on some "High Endurance" U3 class Sandisk cards on Amazon.
These might possibly be more suited to timeshifting duties.


https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07NY23WBG ... e=ogi&th=1

[Brainz]

Found this on Ozbargain. Not sure if the ratings are up to scratch for long term use.

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/581144

SanDisk Ultra MicroSD Card 512GB $99.96 Delivered @ Shopping Square

Cheers!

[prl]

The comments on the OzBargain page aren't encouraging.

[MrQuade]

Saw that one, but I am still dubious of U1 speed rated cards.

[MrQuade]

Saw this deal posted on Ozbargain. Looks like the lowest price I have seen for a Samsung EVO U3 rated card.

128 GB - $24
256 GB - $47
512 GB - $106

Free delivery with Amazon Prime too.

[BigbobOz]

I'm running my V2 without a HDD, using the T4 storage over wired network.

Playing back recordings is snappy but timeshifting is rubbish. Trying to rewind live tv, it just struggles.

Can I whack a micro SD card in and just timeshift off it but leave recording to point to the T4? Is this going to solve the problem?

Thanks,
Rob

[MrQuade]

Can I whack a micro SD card in and just timeshift off it but leave recording to point to the T4? Is this going to solve the problem?

Sure can, thats for I run both my V2's.

I'd stick to using skips though and avoid the rew/FF controls entirely.

[BigbobOz]

Excellent thanks.

I may have said rewind but I've been skipping since my Topfield 5000

Never looked back

[BigbobOz]

For timeshifting, I'm thinking 64GB will be enough. What did you go with?

[MrQuade]

For timeshifting, I'm thinking 64GB will be enough. What did you go with?

For time shifting, that should be plenty.

Check some of the links too bargains in this thread and grab one that is U3 speed rated. A "high endurance" version would be even better.

[MrQuade]

Another good price!

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/661915

[MrQuade]

Looks like the high endurance ones I linked to earlier are on special as well.

[BigbobOz]

I don't think I'm setting mine up correctly.

Periodically, the timeshift stops working and I have to reinitialise the card again to get timeshift working. ie it's like it gets full and isn't clearing prior timeshift recordings.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Rob

[prl]

Have you tried having a look at the contents of the timeshift folder with File Commander (MENU>Sources / Files) when it's having problems to verify whether it's in fact getting full?

What do you mean when you say that you "reinitialise" the SD card?