16GB Micro SDHC Polaroid at Fry's $28 after $15 MIR + shipping ($2) or in store pickup (class not specified)

Agreed. I've bought the 8Gb Polaroid cards and never got the rebates. They're OK for PC use as flash drives, but don't try to boot an OS from one - not unless you've time to waste.

I've been watching for some Class 6 8GB cards, so I've been seeing the various SDHC cards. Fry's seems to be leaning towards 16GB & 32GB SDHC cards in the higher speeds right now, Fry's actually has Class 4 cards fairly often (SDHC & Micro SDHC). Here's a Patriot 16GB Class 6 SDHC card from Sat:

Patriot 16GB Class 6 SDHC card

Rebate is only $10 for the 8gb card. This is a PNY crappy rebated that must be sent within 14 days including pucrhase date, will not accept rebate receipt etc. PNY rebates are crap.

I was going to wait for a class 6 16GB Micro SD, but I got such a great deal on a Sandisk 16GB Micro SD (Class 2) that I could not pass it up. I got it from Office Depot for $23.76 out the door.

They have it on their website for about $32, but it's delivery only. They carry the same model in store, but its a different SKU and priced at $99. I asked them to price match their website which they did with no problem, which surprised me since the SKU was different. I will mention that they are the exact same model though (SDSQ-016G-A11M) regardless of the SKU.

Anyways, I used THIS Office Depot to get $10 off my purchase. It may not be super fast, but it should be very reliable being that it's a Sandisk and it was dirt cheap.

Tested it with Crystal Disk Mark on my PC with a card reader and got about 18mb read and 9mb write on the sequential and 512k runs which isn't too bad for a $23 16GB MicroSD

The 4k weren't as great, but still I can work with this card. Below are the benchmark details.

EDIT: I added benchmarks for my 8gb Kingston Class 4 that I use in my TP2. The benchmarks on the 16gb Class 2 actually look better. That is odd.

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)

Here is my Sandisk 16GB Class 2 Micro SDHC

Sequential Read : 17.957 MB/s
Sequential Write : 8.971 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 17.961 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 2.092 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.004 MB/s [ 977.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.022 MB/s [ 5.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.061 MB/s [ 991.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.033 MB/s [ 8.1 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [L: 6.7% (1.0/14.8 GB)] (x1)
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Sequential Read : 17.914 MB/s
Sequential Write : 9.358 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 17.922 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 2.131 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.020 MB/s [ 981.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.020 MB/s [ 4.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.096 MB/s [ 1000.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.027 MB/s [ 6.6 IOPS]

Test : 100 MB [L: 6.6% (1.0/14.8 GB)] (x5)
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Sequential Read : 17.921 MB/s
Sequential Write : 9.434 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 17.816 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 1.950 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.555 MB/s [ 867.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.019 MB/s [ 4.7 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.868 MB/s [ 944.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.020 MB/s [ 4.9 IOPS]

Test : 500 MB [L: 6.6% (1.0/14.8 GB)] (x2)
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Here is my Kingston 8GB Class 4 MicroSDHC (currently used in my TP2)

Sequential Read : 18.550 MB/s
Sequential Write : 8.953 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 18.553 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 1.620 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.011 MB/s [ 979.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.017 MB/s [ 4.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.901 MB/s [ 952.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.030 MB/s [ 7.3 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [L: 46.5% (3532.5/7592.0 MB)] (x1)

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Sequential Read : 18.505 MB/s
Sequential Write : 9.547 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 18.479 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 1.978 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.860 MB/s [ 942.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.017 MB/s [ 4.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.865 MB/s [ 943.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.024 MB/s [ 5.8 IOPS]

Test : 100 MB [L: 46.5% (3532.5/7592.0 MB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/05/30 9:45:01

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Here is a Kingston 8GB Class 4 regular size SDHC (not micro)

Sequential Read : 16.853 MB/s
Sequential Write : 9.397 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 16.826 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 1.681 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.074 MB/s [ 994.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.039 MB/s [ 9.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.089 MB/s [ 998.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.063 MB/s [ 15.3 IOPS]

Test : 50 MB [L: 0.0% (0.1/7592.0 MB)] (x1)[/L][/L][/L][/L][/L][/L]

Well, I bought the 16GB SD card during Fry's latest promotion and mailed my rebate ten days ago, and it is not yet in their system. Any idea how long it takes before showing up on the website? I am going to give them three weeks before calling...