Some will obviously knock this and say 8GB is useless, but a bargain is a bargain. I challenge anyone to find these cheaper anywhere. I'm sure people can still put them to good use. Enjoy :)
MicroSD available in-store or via eBay with free Click & Collect. Also available at Harvey Norman (thanks scrimshaw).
SD available in-store with free Click & Collect. Also available at Harvey Norman (thanks scrimshaw).
which crashcam is good to get st this moment?
Depends on your budget.
I bought a G1W-C last year (May 2014) and it has lasted exactly 13 months!
Other than its short life, its been a great little camera. I paid $74.85 AUD.
What happened to it?
Camera crashes. Freezes on a frame and starts drawing lines all over it. Video freezes too and is corrupted. Essentially useless 5 seconds after boot up.
If you have a 1080p crashcam, I wouldn't bother with a small card…..I'd get something decent like 16-32GB.
Good pricing available i.e.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Samsung-8GB-16GB-32GB-64GB-128GB-… Samsung EVO UHS-I SDHC 16GB/32GB $10/$18 delivered.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Samsung-Sandisk-16GB-32GB-64GB-12… Samsung SDHC 8GB $7.99
If my memory serves me, Samsung EVO have lifetime warranty and Sadisk Ultra has only 5 years.
Just found this while looking for a 32GB EVO for sons phone
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Samsung-32GB-EVO-MicroSD-SDHC-48M…
$1.24 cheaper, Oz stock and presumably Oz sourced…I'll be buying - that's a pretty high recommendation if you know me (monsieur serré derierre).
Well my crash cam has a stop button I can press if something happens so all I need is about 20 seconds recording
I'm not making a movie
This is actually perfect for the syma x5c. Mine seems to jettison the sd card on a hard crash or a mid air collision with a bird of prey
My X5C-1 comes with a 4GB card included and frankly that is all the camera deserves. It's one of the crappiest 720p video quality I have ever seen so it's not even worth me spending another $5 to buy this 8GB card for it.
Going to get a X8C later on and swap its crappy camera with a GoPro knock-off action cam, which has 1080p video and much better quality.
If my memory serves me, Samsung EVO have lifetime warranty and Sadisk Ultra has only 5 years.
In 5 years, you'll be using your 8GB MicroSD cards for cleaning your nails.
Samsung have a higher fail rate than SanDisk. All they'll do is replace your failed card. Your data will be gone for good
@fuzor: That's what normally happens when a piece of storage fails. Do you know anyone who will not only fix your card but restore your data?
@lostn: Yeah thats right, so really the lifetime warranty is a moot point. 2 years down the track these cards wont be worth anything
@fuzor: You're saying that the loss of your data makes warranty worthless, I'm saying that's bull because no one restores your data when it gets defective. That doesn't mean you wouldn't want warranty, and it doesn't devalue Samsung's lifetime warranty because they don't restore your data. Sandisk doesn't either.
All they'll do is replace your failed card.
That's what anyone will do. If you know someone who will do more than that, do let us know.
2 years down the track these cards wont be worth anything
True. You won't be using it for any of your current devices. But you can still get a replacement anyway and throw it into some old device for playing around with, or hand them down to kids, old people, or others who don't use the latest gadgets. It's better than nothing as long as it doesn't cost you anything.
Nice deal, good for action cams, thanks TA
Ahh! That explains the OW price then! Thanks, will update the title :)
You're killing me here scrimshaw. Will update again. Love your work. Thanks :)
Great info, thanks.
Now just need to find a great price on a higher cap SD card for my camera that I've started using again.
That price at HN has been known about for over a week.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/200835
Also a week ago I mentioned that the Sandisk Ultra 8GB Micro SD was $5 at Officeworks. I didn't bother making a thread about that because i already mentioned that it was $5 at Officeworks. So it's been this price there for at least a week.
So is this the standard price? If so, I have no rush in buying one now and risk losing it under my couch lol. I'll buy it when I need it.
The Good Guys is selling the Sandisk Ultra 8GB Micro SD for $16.95 so $5 must not be the standard price. Looks like some retailers have been clearing out this SD card at a clearance price because it's an old discontinued card.
That price at HN has been known about for over a week
That was for the SD, not the MicroSD I believe?
That was for both the full sized and micro sd cards. I know because I click and collected a few Sandisk Ultra 8GB Micro SD for $5 each from HN last Thursday and the full sized SD was also showing as $5 online.
I got mine from the posted HN deal, these good deals sometimes just get lost in the generic posts that some skip over.
Brilliant, the smaller the better for my Mist! (which is an FPGA based emulator)
Perfect for car cams that record in a loop, no? Most files are only 500meg or so and no point in stuffing a 32gig card in your dash cam if you only use it while driving.
That is unless you're on a long trip and may want to later review the recordings for soemthing you hoped to have captured.
Also if you have a dashcam, most decent ones allow you to select the loop recording length, usually 1/3/5 minutes, files should only be around 2-5MB.
If you are in a serious collision and the dashcam doesn't close the file it's recording before the power goes, the recording is lost.
I personally use a 32GB Samsung EVO, for the extra handfull of bucks I get the benefit of deciding when stuff gets written over at a later date.
I also prefer the longer warranty of Samsung, having had a couple of Sandisk flash drives fail just out of 5 year warranty (including a damned expensive titanium cased one).
So Samsung are my new best friends in the flash memory/SSD space.
The recording is lost too any way if the serious crash destroys the dashcam and memory card with it. Depends what you mean of the severity of a serious crash.
OK, if a 747 falls out of the sky, drops on your car, engulfs it in flames and burns everything apart from the car body to ash, then your recording is done for, but why would you care….you're gonna be long gone anyways. Did I miss anything.
Seriously, if you are in a car crash and it's big enough that you end up in emergency care, chances are that the recording (if it is of a short length - 1/3/5 mins.) will complete via dashcam internal battery/capacitor. Also a decent chance if it's a serious collision that you may have no recollection of the collision. In which case dashcam footage may be critical to establishing the particulars of how it occurred and potentially culpability.
Yes, it's possible that the dashcam gets knackered in the process, it appears that many if not most survive - just check out all the serious crash dashcam footage on youtube.
Aren't these cards rated at something like 100G's? If the card is destroyed then you are as well.
@macrocephalic: It's most likely anything nearing 100G would mean complete demolition of the vehicle and death to all occupants, so no real risk of physical shock damage causing any drama with the memory card.
The only risks (to the dashcam footage) I can foresee in a crash are the non-completion of the recording (completing the data file), fire and electrical impulse. the latter 2 would destroy the card and/or it's files, the former would lose the final 1/3/5 minutes, presuming use of those recoding lengths rather than a continuous recording.
Anyway, the point is that using short (1-5 minute) recording lengths and a larger flash memory reduces the risk of losing the very thing that you buy a dashcam for. A small additional cost for the potential benefit.
There's been cars engulfed in flames even on a less severe crash such as running into a traffic pole where you survive but car ends up destroyed in flames. It happened here in Rockhampton QLD a few years ago. If that happens you can kiss your recordings good bye. Just saying it can and does happen.
http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/photos/car-fire-musgrav…
@hollykryten: I think my analysis of risk factors for the dashcam recording above covers this.
Yes, fires that could kill dashcam footage happen. No, the're not as common as serious crashes that could have been captured on dashcam and saved to flash memory.
@hollykryten: Yes, I understand. like all things, it's not indestructible.
For the individuals who fear that occurence and are sufficienly financed, there are daschcams available that stream the video to the cloud while driving. Although, I hazzard a guess here that should they encounter such a situation they are less likely to survive than their dashcams flash memory.
Yes, it is possible they could be driving where there's no cell phone coverage. Yes, it's possible their SIM dies before the crash. Yes, they could have forgotten to pay their mobile phone bill…….
Yes, there are lots of possibilities with some (if only infinitessimally small) chance of occurring that negates the probability of the recording surviving. I could write a technical paper detailing the risks, probability, ways of mitigating them etc. and post it up on OzB, but frankly I CBF nor do I have any further time to devote on the subject.
Russian SD cards seem to survive.
rayski57 & hollykryten: "We agree, but let's argue about who agrees more."
If they are only 5 meg per video, then 8 gig for be more than sufficient for the average user. I fully understand where you are coming from, but again I see no problem with 8 gig cards for the typical daily commute/drive. If you take your dash cams more seriously, then obviously 8 gig isn't going to cut it.
I thought so. At least that is until recently giving my daughter driving lessons while she's home for a couple of weeks.
We were spending a lot of time driving around the local area, I didn't get to retrieving footage (dashcam not conveniently placed).
There had been video captured of a local driver who regularly blatantly disregards road rules (fails to stop at red light, cutting off other cars, brake light not working etc.) to other drivers peril and I was going to forward to police at their request….my dashcam wrote over the files and I have a 32GB card.
Avg Bitrate for one of my vids was 13617kbps.. 1280x720@60fps (with mono audio).
3mins10 = 325,569KB.. Or roughly 100mb/min.
I keep a 32gb in the cam and alternate with another card every week or 2.
@snoo: at 1080p 30FPS with mono audio my 5 min files are around 570MB.
Depends on encoding and file format as to final file size, hence the disparity between your 60FPS & my 30FPS files.
Yes bigger cards allow more room for error/timing of transfer etc. and ideally I'd have a few.
Plenty left at Pitt St Sydney. As you enter, it's on the opposite wall from the checkout.
sold out now :(
Dang,
was reading news paper and 5 mminutes later I'm at the OW check out page buying these sd cards lol
Thanks OP
good price as MSY still selling it for $6.
Unless I'm mistaken, MSY doesn't carry the 8GB SanDisk. Are you referring to the Kingston?
Kingston is often cheaper than Sandisk and performs equally.
Kingston and Samsung EVO are preferable as they have a lifetime warranty.
"Lifetime" ?
(10 years) kinda thing?
@Utopian:
Last I checked the Samsung site quoted lifetime period. IT industry used to consider lifetime as 5 years, in the consumer oriented world we now live in, that's dead.
I have just been to Samsungs site to ensure I'm not unintentionally misleading you guys…it now states:
Warranty
Limited 10 years * Warranty is limited for any type of surveillance system. ** Warranty for SD adpater is limited to 1 year
Not sure if they would class dashcams as surveillance, but maybe. Of course they'd have to suspect/prove that was the case.
It could be used in a phone/tablet/camera (with adaptor) I highly doubt they'd go to the expense/time to recover the files and determinbe the use it was put to over a sub-$20 item.
In all reality, 10 years from now the card will be worthless as mSDHX type cards (if the format exists) in the many terabyte range would be standard fare. So the card would be a dinosaur and they in all probability wouldn't be able to replace it. I expect that the gear it would have been used in would be very obsolete and discarded years earlier anyway.
@Utopian: How much is a 8GB card going to be worth to you in 2 years? 10 years? Lifetime may as well be 12 months for a $5 card.
@macrocephalic: You've missed the point. I'm just creating awareness. And I've been burnt before with 5 year "lifetime warranty" RAM, that's still current spec.
@macrocephalic:
Firstly, the 'lifetime warranty' is for more than the crappy $5/8Gb Sandisk card, hence it's of more interest.
Secondly, warranty duration forms part of the value decision process for most buyers, so it is important to be clear exactly what's actually on offer.
Thirdly, many of the devices we buy today may still be in use and need that size/type of card in the future (as it's the max. size & only type the device supports), so a failure of the flash card and it's likely replacement under warranty has quite a deal of relevance.
@gotcha: While in the US back in 1999 I picked up an absolute bargain…
Sandisk 48MB CF Card AUD290, in Oz the wholesale price was well over $400.
Amazingly, CF is still a standard card and is compatible with a few devices. I hope microSD does nearly as well.
yes i mean kingston sorry for the mistake, but found they are very similar.both in speed and quality.
Cheers
My mum's card camera just ran out of storage, problem solved. Thanks.
It is rewritable, ya know ;)
ie: Get the contents off it, onto multiple trusted places. It's for temp storage, and should always be backed-up.
Good for pairing with previous Raspberry Pi Deal
Do these do wear leveling? My understanding was that the Raspberry Pi can kill a microSD quite quickly by writing to the same sector repetitively.
Bought 2. Perfect for both my Telstra Lumia 530s as GPS.
Only class 4. Not a good deal.
I see. Am not that familiar with the different classes of cards so I thought they were the same. Thanks.
I posted one example of a local seller for Samsung EVO 16GB class 10 microSD card for $9.95 in that thread. A much better card than that old and slow Sandisk class 4 microSD card.
Cheers TA. Got one from my local HN, came with an adaptor too.
Amex HN deal expires tomorrow, spend 300 and get 50 back. Who wants to split with me? (I wonder if HN will sell 60 of these things in one go :P) Comes out to $4.17 bucks each!
dont forget to use $25 off when spend $150 so you need to spend $325
you will end up with 65 (520GB), $3.46 each
I love your tightass….deals
Out of stock in Sydney CBD :(
I love these little cards, I use them in the printer for scanned document storage.
I keep one for various expenses, e.g. fuel, Mobile/ISP, Car (rego, repairs), etc. Works extremely well for me. +1 for the deal.
Neither of my locals had stock but pricematched at good guys. Fella even gave me the 40mb/sec one instead of the 30mb/sec
Actually, the SD card (not micro) I picked up from HN was 40mb/sec too!
None left in North Ryde, normal speed ones at 5.95 there if you really need a fix
Why does click and collect say 14-18 business days when i choose that option on the OW website?
8GB MicroSD cards were free with the free Trend Security 10 days ago at Harvey Norman.
You should have posted a deal: FREE MicroSD Cards. Would have cleaned up.
Was posted several times during the $20.00 Trend Mobile Security cash back.
The cameras I use at work support dual SD cards.. These are extremely great as a backup when recording performances (we use a switchboard via HDMI for the main copy), usually they'll only need to store 1-2 hours. It's usually just under 8GB/hr @ 1080p.
Saved myself about $10 getting these over single 16GBs for each camera.. Was gonna be looking at $19.95. Cheers OP!
Don't challenge us, challenge Francesca instead.
Officeworks eBay store out of stock on micro sds
Officworks Click and Collect or Delivery works fine.
yep. no 2% cashback though ;)
Opted to click and collect at HN on Thursday.. still havent got a message from HN ready to pickup :/
Oh just checked my spam folder on gmail.HN email picked up as spam LOL.
lol the spam filters considered it hardly normal
I won't neg the deal but Officeworks click and correct stinks. Charged the money immediately on Thursday. It has taek 3 calls (1 Friday, 2 today) to be told the item is out of stock, that they're expecting a shipment on the 21st and that it will take up to another 5 days more from then. I have requested a refund but this could take 2 days to hit my Paypal account and who knows if I'll have to chase that up. Not the first time they've taken money from me for stock they don't have and given me the run around. Lesson learnt.
picked up my c&c order from officeworks today. it came in a rather huge box (you could fit several of those micro sd packs in there!) no complaints though…free box! :D
Not bad for a reliable little sd for the crash cam. Might go pick one up