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Originally Posted by Gerard
As for the 'will you buy this one' question, nah. Once bitten, twice shy, the old saw goes. I've twice lost data thanks to two different capacity Sandisk SD cards, and will certainly not be buying memory from that company again.
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I've had a zillion cards over the years. My first pda, at least 12 years ago, was an HP OmniGo that used PCMCIA cards. I got an early flash based 6MB card. At that time most needed batteries because they were like RAM. It was new to have a solid state card that didn't need a battery. I think I paid about $180 for that 6MB card and that was a good price!
I've only had about 2 cards go bad. I think one was a transend and I don't remember what the other was. Anyway, I've found Sandisk to be reliable. I also have other transend cards that are still fine. Most of my cards are CF and SD but I also have MSDuo, and MicroSD now.
I try for good deals generally and havn't found one brand better than others. SanDisk may actually be the largest manufacturer of flash memory. I think they make it for some other brands who just rebrand and make their own casing but don't make the memory.
Anyway, I hope everyone doesn't cross sandisk off their list! In fact, the best deal in microsd I've found is the Sandisk package (there are differnet capacities) that comes with the smallest usb card reader I've ever seen for a keychain!!! If you have a phone that takes microsd and don't have one go to Amazon or something and order one now! You'll know it when you see it! The red one is reglular and the gray one is high speed - whatever that means.
...btw...I do want to buy a 16GB for my WinMo phone but I need WinMo 6.1 to support HC!!!! I hope it comes out soon for my iMate 6150. I've heard it could be any time.