quick answer about memory stick.

[overclocked]

Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo 2Gb High Speed 80Mbps, is this good for PSP and is it cheaper in ASIA.

 

[bobthebub]

Sony Memory Stick PRO Duo 2Gb High Speed 80Mbps, is this good for PSP and is it cheaper in ASIA.

Strangely the Sandisk High Speed Memory Stick Pro Duo's outperform the Sony ones and are probably a bit cheaper.

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-20872-2229-x-x-x

I think you can guarantee they will be cheaper in Asia too.

 

[overclocked]

I got the Sony cheaper, but some other test ive seen in magazines paints a very different picture. Very strange actually. Esp the Son vs Sony High speed.

 

[bobthebub]

It is a bit odd, but I don't think the PSP is really High Speed enabled so the High Speed Sony Part is throttled on the PSP, if a review was done with proper high speed compatibale readers they would probably perform better.

That doesn't really explain why the Sandisk sticks perform so well on the test I linked to though.

 

[overclocked]

It is a bit odd, but I don't think the PSP is really High Speed enabled so the High Speed Sony Part is throttled on the PSP, if a review was done with proper high speed compatibale readers they would probably perform better.

That doesn't really explain why the Sandisk sticks perform so well on the test I linked to though.

You probably got a point with PSP adjusting something cause its really much more important in other devices. Btw whats the differene between Sony "regular" and the costly high speed, i heard about security and so on with lost data etz.
Maybe you know more? All three of them uses MagicGate i think so in that regard there should be any difference i think. But i read as i said abou no more lost data on the high speed Sony sticks so that maybe something that explains the difference in price.

 

[bobthebub]

Sorry,

I don't know in enough detail, I think that various varieties of Memory Stick use different combinations of voltages/parallel/serial transfer etc, High Speed is just the best (most expensive) available but you only get the benefit with high speed enabled devices.

 

[overclocked]

I noted one thing that could *maybe* explain those results. Firmware version of the PSP.

 

[overclocked]

On the other hand i dont know if it was so cheap, i payed 150Euro translated so i dont know. Maybe it was a bad deal?

 

[bobthebub]

150 Euro's Sounds reasonable to me, I'm in the UK and last time I went looking

http://www.mobymemory.com

was the best place I found to buy MS here, they have your stick for £118 (170 Euro's) that includes 17.5% VAT

 

[Bobbler]

You probably got a point with PSP adjusting something cause its really much more important in other devices. Btw whats the differene between Sony "regular" and the costly high speed, i heard about security and so on with lost data etz.
Maybe you know more? All three of them uses MagicGate i think so in that regard there should be any difference i think. But i read as i said abou no more lost data on the high speed Sony sticks so that maybe something that explains the difference in price.

Some things require higher speeds.

For example: My camera requires a high speed memstick to take its "Fine mode" video (30fps/640x480), otherwise it can only do about ~15 fps video. In most cases I imagine the speed doesn't matter, but there are a few cases where you would actually need it (otherwise I think its just for convenience of having a faster read/write while getting things off the stick).

 

[overclocked]

Theres extreme large price difference on this mem stick as i saw many stores taking 300Euros+ for it and the swedish Sony site around 350Euro(incl tax), strange.

 

[Snyder]

Theres extreme large price difference on this mem stick as i saw many stores taking 300Euros+ for it and the swedish Sony site around 350Euro(incl tax), strange.

Yes, the 2GB High Speed Pro Duos are obscenely expensive. For the price of one High Speed Pro Duo I could get three 1GB ones, and almost three non High-Speed 2GB ones.