best sd card

newtoburners · 19-08-2006

what brands are the best?

*kg_evilboy* · 19-08-2006

If you have enough money, get the "professional" SanDisk Ultra II or Extreme III thingies.
Transcend and Toshiba are good too.

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*xtacydima* · 23-08-2006

SanDisc has always been my preferred choice of brand.

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*gregtherotterius* · 23-08-2006

i got a kingston 'elite pro' 50x 1gb one and its just great.

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*Kenshin* · 26-08-2006

50x or 150x? PQI has 170x 4GB USB so some are going to release 170x or faster SD and CF cards as well sooner or later.

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dtog · 27-09-2006

I also say stick with SanDisk Ultra II or Extreme III SD or CF cards.

Never had one go bad, unlike Ritek and "Adata MyFlash". (stay far far away from those two).

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**Arachne** · 27-09-2006

Ritek make SD cards? Oh dear.

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*pinto2* · 27-09-2006

CORSAIR 133x 1GB, in my digital camera.

Read speed: 21 MB/s
Write speed: 15,5 MB/s

Lifetime warranty!
Price ~ $21

dtog · 27-09-2006

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Originally Posted by Arachne

Ritek make SD cards? Oh dear.

Yep, and I lost a whole day's worth of photos on a Ritek card.

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*Kenshin* · 27-09-2006

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Originally Posted by Arachne

Ritek make SD cards? Oh dear.

It's very easy and cheap to "make" flash memory cards or sticks. It costs billions to tens of billions in USD to make the NAND flash chips inside those cards and sticks. Only the very large players like Samsung, Intel, AMD, Toshiba, and several others have the physical capacity to design and produce them.

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*ricoman* · 02-01-2007

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Originally Posted by pinto2

CORSAIR 133x 1GB, in my digital camera.

Read speed: 21 MB/s
Write speed: 15,5 MB/s

Lifetime warranty!
Price ~ $21

where might this be?

Jetfighter · 05-01-2007

I got a Sandisk it just works fine.

nascarmike · 06-01-2007

Scan Disk has never let me down.

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kassandro · 07-01-2007

Sandisk has never let me down as well, but you have to pay for it. The Extreme IV is probably the best and fasted, I achieve already best possible performance on my Canon Powershot A710 IS with a 2 GB Transcend 150x SD card. For instance I the card is fast enough to take more than two 7 MP pics per second in burst mode and when I stop the buffer of the camera clears immediately. Thus at least on the A710 you cannot get better performance with another card. The Transcend 150x did cost only one half of a similar Sandisk Extreme III.

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*lui_gough* · 10-01-2007

I've used KingMax for a whole two years on a regular basis - their Platinum Pro edition is very very good - because it's made of ceramic material and it won't break. Similar is the ATP Pro or something which is ceramic package too - their plastic cards are also fine. Stay away from no-brands, and brands like ASTONE, RUNDISK etc. Lexar is also a good one to go for - their warranty is better - similar to KingMAX, although Kingston also gets my recommendation. Sandisk is always more expensive from experience.

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*ricoman* · 10-01-2007

Is Kingmax made by Kingston?

*RJL65* · 11-01-2007

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Is Kingmax made by Kingston?

Nope. They're two completely different companies.

*lui_gough* · 11-01-2007

Kingston is an Australian Memory supplier [brander ... maybe a manufacturer but I don't think the chips are their own] which offers lifetime warranty on most of their products. They're pretty famous for memory and have been around for a long time.

Kingmax is a much "cheaper" Taiwanese memory manufacturer - they make their own boards and chips for the modules and typically offer only a 5 yr warranty. However, they are innovators in the memory area and typically offer products at a much more reasonable price. They produce a range of products [Platinum SD] which has their patented PIP pacakge meaning that the whole SD card is manufactured in a ceramic package rather than the normal plastic case [which I find cracks when you insert/remove the card on a regular basis - and for the protection of investment - I recommend ceramic cards]. These ceramic cards are also water/dirt/dust proof - a reviwer also had an ATP card that was similar using the same technology and chucked it around and dunked it in water overnight and had no problem. I haven't had a problem with kingmax cards and my recommendation comes for their reasonable price and innovative technology. Their Kingdisk line is a cheaper card, without ceramic case. The kingdisks not as fast as most other cards which is sad however, my 5MP canon doesn't write so fast as to make it noticeable even in burst shot mode.

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loader04 · 11-01-2007

anyway to use sd card for your existing stereo????

*lui_gough* · 12-01-2007

If the stereo has SD memory support - you can just plug the card in and it's all systems go.

If it has USB stick support, you can grab yourself a cheapy USB to SD reader [just one slot though, some other multi-format ones don't seem to work] and put the SD card into that and it'll work as well provided there's enough power from the stereo.

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CHRISTOFFS · 21-01-2007

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Originally Posted by dtog

Never had one go bad, unlike Ritek and "Adata MyFlash". (stay far far away from those two).

Is A-Data really that bad? I wanna get an A-Data 2gb microsd card from Newegg. The reviews on Newegg are positive. Plus A-Data has a lifetime warranty on their card opposed to Scandisk's 5 year warranty. Plus I read that the regular Scandisk 2gb microsd is slow as hell and that A-Data is much quicker. Scandisk is suppose to release a 2gb microsd ultra II but noone knows when and Im tired of waiting.

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*RJL65* · 22-01-2007

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Originally Posted by CHRISTOFFS

Is A-Data really that bad? I wanna get an A-Data 2gb microsd card from Newegg. The reviews on Newegg are positive. Plus A-Data has a lifetime warranty on their card opposed to Scandisk's 5 year warranty. Plus I read that the regular Scandisk 2gb microsd is slow as hell and that A-Data is much quicker. Scandisk is suppose to release a 2gb microsd ultra II but noone knows when and Im tired of waiting.

The problem is the card's reliability, not speed. I've seen so many low-priced, high-speed cards poop out after only a few rewrites. In fact, one such card failed to complete the writing operation on the first use!

And the card's warranty means nothing, as far as reliability is concerned. In fact, those with a short or no warranty are equally as reliable as their longer-warranteed brandmates. And you cannot compare the warranty of one brand to that of another brand, as far as predicted reliability is concerned.

CHRISTOFFS · 29-01-2007

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Originally Posted by RJL65

The problem is the card's reliability, not speed. I've seen so many low-priced, high-speed cards poop out after only a few rewrites. In fact, one such card failed to complete the writing operation on the first use!

And the card's warranty means nothing, as far as reliability is concerned. In fact, those with a short or no warranty are equally as reliable as their longer-warranteed brandmates. And you cannot compare the warranty of one brand to that of another brand, as far as predicted reliability is concerned.

I understand what you're saying but Im asking how unreliable is the A-data brand? A-data offers a lifetime warranty and Scandisk is only 5 yrs.

*lui_gough* · 29-01-2007

As he mentioned [RJL65] - it's not the warranty that matters. Hell - i can prolly offer a 100 yr warranty - but who would take it? even after 5 years, some people won't have the reciept/box etc - not to mention those bastard thermal reciepts fade fast .....

Just because they offer a longer warranty doesn't at all mean that the cards are better quality. I have cards with 1 yr warranty still going after 5 years, and some 5 yr cards that have already started corrupting themselves after six months. Although experiences vary, flash cards tend to work initially, and the bad cards will corrupt themselves eventually.....

I have one A-Data card myself, It's <2 mo old so I can't report anything particularly wrong, except for only 2.5Mb/s write speed .... where it claims HIGH SPEED .....

You know you can trust Sandisk - [excepting fakes] because many pro photographers use them, almost all camera sample cards [Canon, Nikon, Kodak] use cards provided by them and even their own brand cards are sandisk. Not only that, they are the benchmark for "comparing compatibility and speed" as no-doubt all the sites that you see have benchmarks from them, and they have been most recommended for almost all equipment - Sandisk has a reputation. Lexar does too ... a similar one ....

Not to say, there couldn't be another one that could debunk it -

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SG · 07-02-2007

I notice that Verbatim are now making.. anyone know if they're as good as the discs they make?

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