SD card deal!

[FunHouse82]

Does anyone know any good deals on SD cards? I am not really worried about the company, I am looking for a good priced higher range sd card (ie. 512 or 1 GB). Thank you

[townsendtribe]

I saw a SanDisk 256 MB SD card at Costco for $46. At that price, you could buy a few for what a 512 costs.

[Crystal Eitle]

FunHouse,

I would never buy a SanDisk card. I have heard too many reports of people having problems with their cards. SanDisk has a reputation for having poor quality. Go with a brand like Viking or Lexar.

There's a link on the front page of PPCT where you can compare prices for SD cards. Or you can check out a site like pricegrabber.com - just make sure you take the shipping costs and the seller's reputation into account.

townsendtribe is right, though, that 256 MB cards are a better value right now. If you do the math, you'll see that megabyte-for-megabyte, 256 MB is cheapest right now (kind of like calculating the per-unit cost at the grocery store).

[townsendtribe]

Ack! I've been slapped! :oops: I just thought I would mention it. I personally have never had a problem with SanDisk. I haven't used their SD cards, but I have used thier Compact Flash. And as far as I know, Costco usually has good quality product and a great return policy should there be a problem.

[aroma]

Just to add my two cents, I've used nothing but SanDisk SD cards... 64MB, 2 - 128MB, and a 256MB. I have no problems what so ever with any of the cards.

- Aaron

[trachy]

Yeah, maybe it's time to give Sandisk a little dap. They get ripped a lot, but I've never had problems with my 256Mb SD card either.

- Drew

[David Prahl]

I've got a 128 CF card from Memorex. No problems.

[Sven Johannsen]

I've had two Sandisk SD cards that just quit being reliable and one just quit. It has soured me from buying Sandisk SD. Too bad too, they tend to have some good prices. That doesn't help when you can't launch programs or open files though.

[Dave Beauvais]

I've already sworn never to buy a SanDisk product again, no matter how attractive the price may be. It's not just because I've had three SanDisk cards die -- two 256 MB SD and one 64 MB SmartMedia -- it's the extremely poor customer service I received. It literally took almost two months to the day for me to receive the warranty replacement card when my first SD card bit it. Now that card has died (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16942) as well, less than five months later, and I'm still waiting for an RMA number after nearly a week.

The old adage "you get what you pay for" is so true for SanDisk. If your SanDisk cards work, consider yourself lucky. For me and several other folks out there, it just isn't worth the headaches and worries about always having to backup what's on the card in case it suddenly corrupts all your data. I actually carry the most important data on a spare 64 MB Lexar SD card in one of the card slots in my Vaja case. That way I at least have some data available when the main card dies while I'm mobile.

--Dave

[famousdavis]

I use SanDisk SD and CompactFlash cards, and I've had no trouble, except that when I use a SanDisk CompactFlash card in a card reader (on my desktop PC), I have to reformat the card when I reinstall it into my camera.

FWIW, back when I was deciding which PDA to buy, the response on C/Net (http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-3128_7-20665487.html)was less than overwhelming in support of the hp 1910 (less than 60% gave it a thumbs-up), which I wound up buying nonetheless. And as it has turned out, my 1910 has proven to be a worthy, mostly reliable unit overall. My wife just says I'm a lucky person (and I must be, to have a wife like her around! :) ).

My point? Sometimes products work all the time for some people, and sometimes they never work for some people. Sometimes you have to just hope you're a lucky person.... :wink:

[delfuhd]

My friend had a Toshiba 740 with a 128 sandisk card. THe SD card didnt work with his PDA anymore randomly one day, so he gave it to me. It's been prefect ever since, I have had no problems with it.

That's the only time I've heard of something happening.
Oh, and just after he gave me the 128 meg card, he went and bought a SanDisk 256 meg SD card and a 512 meg SanDisk CF card, and has had no problems with those. This was about 8 months ago.

[FunHouse82]

Does anyone know of any more deals? I am also considering compact flash. I have both types and I am happy with both, so that isnt the problem. I am trying to look for good deals. And one with more memory so i only need to buy one, so all my pdas memory can be on that card, and I already have a 128 - Cf.

[Autarch]

Since you said you were interested in larger capacity SD cards, I'll mention this deal through Fry's (http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3625855): Panasonic 512 MB SD (high speed) for $189. I got it and think it's a great card so far. The website is now saying "check for availability," though.

[Anthony Caruana]

My understanding is that Sandisk source cards from different plants at different times. this would explain why the quality of the cards varies. Of course that doesn't excuse their customer service

[Chris Pi]

I bought a Lexar 256mb card from Tigerdirect.com for $95 Cdn. which I thought was a fair price. So far it's working fine.

[maximus]

I had sandisk 256s, and has no problems whatsoever.

I would never buy a SanDisk card. I have heard too many reports of people having problems with their cards. SanDisk has a reputation for having poor quality. Go with a brand like Viking or Lexar.

Some of the brands that you mentioned uses sandisk chips too. If you really want to avoid sandisk chips (memory chip / controller chip), go with Panasonic or Toshiba brands.

townsendtribe is right, though, that 256 MB cards are a better value right now. If you do the math, you'll see that megabyte-for-megabyte, 256 MB is cheapest right now (kind of like calculating the per-unit cost at the grocery store).

If he needs large storage for videos, have extra money to burn, etc., 512 will be attractive from that point of view. Imagine 220 oggs at 80 kbps on one SD card. Awesome.