[powernow]

I have been searching Amazon for a good SD card for my new camera, but each card I see seems to have several reviews saying that the card failed after only a few months or less. Which brand will be the most reliable? I was looking as Transcend and Kingston, are those good? I really only want a basic 4/8Gb SDHC card, I don't need a high-speed or otherwise fancy card. Thanks in advance!

-Adam

[Rommel]

Hi,

I have 3 PNY ( 512mb, 1gb, 2gb )and a kingston ( 2gb ) SD card.

Between 1 and 2 yrs. No issues with eigther.

If you produce tons of something there is bound to be an oops.

All mine where on sale cheap. No complaints.

Rommel

[BAMT]

I've had the best experience with Kingston, and they are usually slightly faster than others. I've only had one Kingston device fail, but it was probably just from overuse (not something you should worry about).

[tek101]

SanDisk Cruzers ...Never fails on me .....Have 8 so far ....

[crazy4laptops]

Transcend, Sandisk, or PNY(all have my vote)

all three brands are solid, reliable, and speedy

And i have the 2gb 133x Transcend card and it has lasted me upwards of 20,000 writes (~ 4mb per write) in one year

[quackadilly]

I have always used Sandisk. I've never had 1 fail me.


My oldest one, cruzer mini 256MB, has gone through hell and still works:



I found it in a park after a nice rainstorm. Wet grass....probably violated by a dog..... It ended up going through my washer and dryer and it still works.

[powernow]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate your replies!

-Adam

[crazy4laptops]

you're welcome powernow

come back to pcworld anytime with any tech question you might have

have a great day

-C4L

[Adama]

Well, I don't know about PNY. I have a PNY SD 2GB and sometime last week when I was taking some pics, I got a msg on my camera (Fujifilm Finepix J100w) saying Frame No. Full

I think that I should be able to take about 200 pics on that 2GB card, but I only had 31 pics in it. (A couple of months ago I had about 79 pics in it and everything was fine.) So, I'm going back to BestBuy today, to see if they can give me some info on why this card is behaving that way.

[waldojim]

only thing I would avoid are wal-mart off brands, such a polaroid, Dane Elec, ACP etc. They use cards that failed to meet the manufacturers specs (usually speed or size) and Lexar, Sandisk, PNY, etc would not put their own label on.

[Adama]

Well, I took my PNY card and camera to BestBuy and one of the guys there checked it out and we finally realized that it was not the card, it was my camera! Somehow the frame functionality had been changed, and it wasn't allowing me to continue shooting pics.

All's well with my camera again.

[coastie65]

Well, I got my Kodak 2 Gb SD card from WalMart for $19.95 and it has been doing well and i have shot a lot of Video's as well as stills.

[techie4fun]

powernow, on 22 July 2009 - 02:41 PM, said:

I have been searching Amazon for a good SD card for my new camera, but each card I see seems to have several reviews saying that the card failed after only a few months or less. Which brand will be the most reliable? I was looking as Transcend and Kingston, are those good? I really only want a basic 4/8Gb SDHC card, I don't need a high-speed or otherwise fancy card. Thanks in advance!

-Adam

Kingston and PNY are both good.

[waldojim]

coastie65, on 22 September 2009 - 12:08 AM, said:

Well, I got my Kodak 2 Gb SD card from WalMart for $19.95 and it has been doing well and i have shot a lot of Video's as well as stills.

No offense, but was kodak on my list?

kodak purchases cards from Lexar media, and they dont get the duds.

Polaroid on the other hand is a has been company, and doesn't care about product quality.

[smax013]

waldojim, on 20 September 2009 - 05:59 PM, said:

only thing I would avoid are wal-mart off brands, such a polaroid, Dane Elec, ACP etc. They use cards that failed to meet the manufacturers specs (usually speed or size) and Lexar, Sandisk, PNY, etc would not put their own label on.

waldojim, on 19 October 2009 - 04:48 AM, said:

coastie65, on 22 September 2009 - 12:08 AM, said:

Well, I got my Kodak 2 Gb SD card from WalMart for $19.95 and it has been doing well and i have shot a lot of Video's as well as stills.

No offense, but was kodak on my list?

kodak purchases cards from Lexar media, and they dont get the duds.

Polaroid on the other hand is a has been company, and doesn't care about product quality.

No...but in coastie65's "defense", you did include an "etc" at the end of your list. Thus, it is not beyond reason for someone to think you might consider Kodak an "off-brand" even though you did not specifically mention it, especially since you included Polaroid in the list. Keep in mind that you did not elaborate on why you considered Polaroid an "off-brand" and why you consider Kodak to NOT be an "off brand" until this most recent post.

It would be a completely different story if you had not included an "etc" at the end of your list.

[waldojim]

smax013, on 19 October 2009 - 07:18 PM, said:

waldojim, on 20 September 2009 - 05:59 PM, said:

only thing I would avoid are wal-mart off brands, such a polaroid, Dane Elec, ACP etc. They use cards that failed to meet the manufacturers specs (usually speed or size) and Lexar, Sandisk, PNY, etc would not put their own label on.

waldojim, on 19 October 2009 - 04:48 AM, said:

coastie65, on 22 September 2009 - 12:08 AM, said:

Well, I got my Kodak 2 Gb SD card from WalMart for $19.95 and it has been doing well and i have shot a lot of Video's as well as stills.

No offense, but was kodak on my list?

kodak purchases cards from Lexar media, and they dont get the duds.

Polaroid on the other hand is a has been company, and doesn't care about product quality.

No...but in coastie65's "defense", you did include an "etc" at the end of your list. Thus, it is not beyond reason for someone to think you might consider Kodak an "off-brand" even though you did not specifically mention it, especially since you included Polaroid in the list. Keep in mind that you did not elaborate on why you considered Polaroid an "off-brand" and why you consider Kodak to NOT be an "off brand" until this most recent post.

It would be a completely different story if you had not included an "etc" at the end of your list.

The I apologise for not specifying why polariod was on there, and that Kodak was excluded.

I assumed however, that people would kind of get the idea I was talking about the cheapest of the cheap...

[smax013]

waldojim, on 21 October 2009 - 08:21 PM, said:

The I apologise for not specifying why polariod was on there, and that Kodak was excluded.

I assumed however, that people would kind of get the idea I was talking about the cheapest of the cheap...

Not a problem...just offering why I could see why coastie65 posted what he did.

[waldojim]

smax013, on 22 October 2009 - 04:44 AM, said:

waldojim, on 21 October 2009 - 08:21 PM, said:

The I apologise for not specifying why polariod was on there, and that Kodak was excluded.

I assumed however, that people would kind of get the idea I was talking about the cheapest of the cheap...

Not a problem...just offering why I could see why coastie65 posted what he did.

understood