• 1 GB storage capacity with 940 MB available
• Minimum write speeds of 15 Mbps on Memory Stick PRO Duo enabled devices optimized with 4-pin parallel interface
• Included adapter allows compatibility with Memory Stick PRO media enabled devices
• Backwards compatible with most devices that use Memory Stick PRO Duo media
you have to remember that part of the cost for these items is the research and development of the technology. Hard to measure per unit, but in the millions.
You also have to remember that if these corporations didn't make money on these products, they probably wouldn't make them. So, then, who would you look for to produce flash based memory cards? The government?
Then why are the twice as much as SD cards. Because Sony will not let other companies make their memory besides sandisk and lexar. Sounds like we are all being had!! (he.... he....he... let's charge everyone extra because we know they want them for their brand new psp's.)
There is actually e very large cost associated with "silicon", and thats the cost to build and staff a fab. Sure, when it comes down to it the silicon is made of "sand", but the cost to turn that "sand" is a multibillion (in the range of 6 to 30 billion) dollar investment, not to mention years to build the thing. Having that much money tied up is a huge cost, and thats what you're paying for.
While its true that the fabrication cost is much lower than the retail, it's probalby not as bad as you think. Outside of memory sticks, the flash market (which is highly competitive) has settled around $60 for one gig. Anytime you shrink something down, you're going to end up with a higher potential for errors, which means your yields go down. You're also paying for the "design" of the 2gig, 4gig, and 10gig sticks that are years away (as well as the fabrication processes required to build them).
So yes, they are expensive. Yes memory sticks are more expensive than they should be (since no one used them until now and so the market is not very competitive), but I would be really shocked if they cost only 10 dollars to make, unless you use a very myopic definition of "cost".
Whilst most of us are complaining about the prices of products in the now, the money we pay (often in extortionate amounts) is going towards new research and design.
Just think how much the PSP must have cost for R&D.
if a product cost $0.50 to make and take 72 hours to make a bundle (1500 units) of them to ship and you have 5 people working for $7.50 an hour on this. that means it cost $2.30 to make everyone, not including the admin peoples work and cost not including shipping or R&D and not including maintenance on the machines making the products...etc.. so to off set all of the jobs that maybe involved in the process the price must go up or they would lose money for everyone they made so some times it may end up really costing $60 to make something that only cost the company $0.50 for the product. You have to keep in mind everyone who works at the company that takes part in anyway on a product has to be paid and they must be counted towards the true cost to make the item.
wow why is it i can finde the 1gb san disc on the net for 95 bucks but the sony 1gb is 200 at the sonystyle.com and 450 for the 2gb thats redicules i might as well go out and by a actull mp3 player...
what kind of speeds are you guys getting with this card? I actually have the high speed version of this, the MSX-M1GN, which is suppose to be rated for 80 Mbps, or 10 MB/s. However, I am getting nothing near that performance. Connecting my PSP directly to the PC with a USB 2.0 cable, I get 1.3 MB/s write, and 7.1 MB/s read. When connecting the memory card to a Mitsumi flash reader, also connected to USB 2.0, I am getting 1 MB/s write, and 3.7 MB/s read.
When I connected my PSP to a USB 1.1 system directly, I get somewhere around 700 KB/s write.
Is the 10 MB/s write just a myth? What do you need to achieve it?
i was wonderin (im about to get a psp) does a sd lexar media 32mb card work with the psp(not that im cheap i might buy this later) im just workin with what i have already well thx for readin this post and if u can plz ansure me
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