Woot! Cheap SD card!

by JC Fletcher { Feb 27th 2008 at 11:15AM }

Woot, if you're not familiar with the site, sells one heavily discounted closeout item per day, or until they run out. The site has become somewhat of a daily routine for technology enthusiasts who enjoy the occasional $10 MP3 player or ridiculous TV deal. Today's Woot deal is something that may be of interest to Wii owners -- more space for the fridge!

Until 12AM CST (or they run out), you can get a 2GB Dane Elec SD card for $6.99 plus $5 shipping. You may not be able to run VC games off of the SD card, but you can store them there! Also pictures and music and what have you. If you've ever wanted to experiment with the Wii's storage options, this is as good a time as any!

While we're talking Woot, at the risk of sounding like a paid endorsement (we're not), their t-shirt site is really neat.

[Thanks, Zack!]

Tags: deals, sd, storage

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mgroves @ Feb 27th 2008 11:30AM

$12 total...meh. I can get these locally for around the same price.

Rocketboy @ Feb 27th 2008 12:27PM

Then buy three. The $5 shipping is for up to three cards.

J @ Feb 27th 2008 11:35AM

Not bad...the card is rather slow 66x for about $5 more you can get a 2GB 150x card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211314

Garst @ Feb 27th 2008 5:34PM

Are you seriously going to worry about speed when you're being told to use it purely for storage? It's not like you're going to be running anything off the card; once it's there, it probably won't be moved for a very long. It's not really worth the $5 for that.

Co @ Feb 27th 2008 11:42AM

Dane Elec?? Is that even compatable with Wii?

Sonic_13 @ Feb 27th 2008 12:03PM

I don't see why it wouldn't be. SD is a standard media card type. The only issue that could potentially arise is when you start using really large SD cards (but 2gigs is fine).

brian @ Feb 27th 2008 12:50PM

What do you mean?

Any SD Card is compatible for the wii.

Sir Fatty @ Feb 27th 2008 1:15PM

@Brian:

...oh dear.

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/sdCards.jsp#purchase

James @ Feb 27th 2008 4:16PM

Sir Fatty, your link is mistaken. It says "not all SD cards are compatible", but then the only case it gives of *not* being compatible is if the cards are over 2GB. That's impossible, though -- if it's over 2GB, it's *SDHC*, not merely SD. That's like saying not all CDs are compatible with your CD-ROM drive, because it won't read DVDs -- of course not, it's not a DVD drive.

Anyway, yes, of course these will work, and don't bill it as a 12 dollar 2GB card, bill it as three 2GB cards for $26, which is a substantially better deal.

Of course, I'm still not doing it, because I'd rather spend a few bucks extra and get MicroSD instead (since that's what most of my flash-consuming devices need, and they work on the Wii with an adapter).

Sir Fatty @ Feb 27th 2008 12:14PM

Store the VC games? You sure about that?

JC Fletcher @ Feb 27th 2008 12:22PM

Yes. http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/data.jsp#SDcopy

brian @ Feb 27th 2008 12:56PM

Oh dear....

Sir Fatty @ Feb 27th 2008 1:14PM

JC,

I've never done it, and was under the impression that only saved game data could be backed up. Thanks for the heads up.

Matt B @ Feb 27th 2008 1:55PM

Hmm, not bad, but I bought a 2GB SD card off of amazon for $12 including shipping.

dark_inchworm @ Feb 27th 2008 2:06PM

Not bad, but I'd rather go with a brand I trust.

David W. @ Feb 27th 2008 2:27PM

Dane Elec is one of the major SD card sellers, and I'm surprised more people haven't heard of them?

Plus, almost all SD cards are produced by the same companies, just branded differently for sale...

Garst @ Feb 27th 2008 5:45PM

You can't claim to be a major seller of something, when no one has heard of you. That name did have a vague recoglection to me, but not enough to really go for it. Besides, I'm going Micro with all future SD cards seems how everything else seems to being using those instead of standard SD. My next purchase will be one that includes a MiniSD adapter so I have that if I ever need it, too.