SD memory cards' good 'and' bad '
The SD, or Secure Digital, are among the most widely used in digital cameras, PDAs, music players, and so on. However, some of these cards do not follow the standard dictated by the SD Card Association, which causes unwanted effects, even to be able to permanently spoil the SD slot of the computer on which it is used. You can learn more about the subject, and how to distinguish these cards from the safe in this post.
Beware of cards that do not meet the standard
This page has been created in order to discover these cards are not compatible. Among all comment on the SD cards we've used, whether they have worked well, as if you ever have lost all our data, or even if some have arrived spoil a device. To collaborate only have to send an email to mgtroyas@pdatungsteno.com with the following information:
- Manufacturer's name (if you know).
- Capacity (in megabytes).
- Usage time (months, years it has been using).
- Apparatus in which you use regularly.
- If you've detected any anomaly which are listed in this post: lack of the notch side, the switch from read-only, and so on.
- Result of use: it works perfectly, or has ever lost the entire contents, or a broken appliance, and it no longer accepts any SD card, and so on.
- Alternatively, your name or a nickname you want to appear on the list.
So if you use or have used SD cards, works by sending your experience, to discover what all cards can be bought and what we must avoid. Thanks!
SD cards tested
| Manufacturer | Capacity | Time | Owner |
| Kingston | 1 Gb | 4 months | Hark0 |
| No problems at the moment. | |||
| SanDisk | 128 Mb | 2 years | Hark0 |
| No problems at the moment. | |||
| unknown | 256 Mb | 3 months | Hark0 |
| Discarded useless. | |||
| Kingston | 512M | -- | poloespalm |
| Delay possible to record video. | |||
| SanDisk | 1 Gb | -- | poloespalm |
| No problems at the moment. | |||
| unknown | 32 MB | 2 years | Marcos |
| Starblitz digital camera. No problems at the moment. | |||
| Kingston | 1 Gb | 7 months | Marcos |
| Tungsten E2. No problems at the moment. | |||
| PQI Corporation | 1 Gb | 7 months | fpucheta |
| Palm TX, Concord Camera, Genius camera, card reader for PCs. No anomaly. | |||
| Kingston | 128 Mb | 1 years | Mahama |
| As a substitute for pendrive (with an adapter), in digital cameras. Incompatibility with a camera, but is still in doubt ... Even so, voting against the camera. | |||
| Transcend | 2 GB | 3 months | Carlos M |
| T5 and sometimes exchange with the camera if I take many photos. Once I lost the entire contents but it was my fault to give it to reset the palm while reading. After taking some pictures in high resolution with the camera, insert in the Palm and try to open (if sometimes succeeds in opening). I think that with any other card would have been lost data. At the end I was able to recover some with software. | |||
| Kingston | 256 Mb | 18 months | agestrada |
| Without any external abnormality of those identified. It works perfectly. | |||
| MarkVision | 512M | 2 months | Masilva |
| Using it on my T5 until about a month ago and it worked to perfection. | |||
| SanDisk | 1 Gb | 1 months | Masilva |
| Is working very well. | |||
| SimpleTech | 128 Mb | 1 years | Droptic |
| The use in the pc (I have SD card reader) and the Palm Zire 72. None of the anomaly commented. It works perfectly. | |||
| Kingston | 128 Mb | 18 months | Droptic |
| The use in the pc (I have SD card reader) and the Palm Zire 72. None of the anomaly commented. It works perfectly. | |||
| Panasonic | 512M | 6 months | Phoranomus |
| The look on my TX for half a year and a few weeks ago in my new Lumix camera. So far I have not had any problem. | |||
| Toshiba | 512M | 6 months | GremboXic |
| Palm TX, Navman pin570, PC Camara Pentax. Without bugs. | |||
| Kingston (Toshiba) | 1 Gb | 13 months | Fracaruso |
| Without any problem in a Tungsten T5. | |||
| Memory Power | 128 Mb | 100 MB 20 " | 3dlan |
| Found at a concert. Widely used "pc, photos, video game." Everything ok. | |||
| PQ1 | 512M | 100 MB 15 " | 3dlan |
| Using normal "pc, photos, video game." Everything ok. | |||
| AST Bravo | 512M | 8 months | Cases |
| Normally used in Tungsten T5. Without external abnormalities. Now the mark as read-only card. Do not stop writing or formatted. | |||
| Corsair | 512M, 60x | 3 months | Djos |
| The use on the Palm LifeDrive and camara genius, reader of my pc. I have used enough memory and nothing has happened works well and fast ... | |||
| MarkVision | 4Gb | 1 day | Perez Anddy |
| Used in Palm TX. Data CardSpeed: Wrt32bit: 14bytes/sec; Wrt8KB: 9188 bytes / sec; Read8KB: 2016492 bytes / sec. No abnormalities were detected, so far it is working perfectly, a bit slow but there it goes. | |||
| Transcend | 3.85 GB (4GB according to the box) | 2 months | Starvenger |
| Used only in the reader of memoirs MarkVision which is the only one who reads to his maximum capacity. None of the external anomaly commented. As storage device works wonderfully with a reader Marvision, BUT, especially to buy the record long videos with my camera and KODAK take me a big surprise ... does not work or mine or any of the following models: Kodak C310, Kodak C330, Kodak 340, Kodak C550, and a Premier Camara, in all Kodak took out the error report when Fill was really empty and properly formatted in my PC when trying to format in the cameras got the error FileSys 0100. | |||
| Kingston | 256MB Elite Pro | More than 1 year | Luis Galindo Apablaza |
| Only use the Palm, but I read in various peripherals, never gave me trouble. | |||
| Extrememory | 2 GB 133x and 4GB 133x | 1 day | Hark0 |
| Used in internal external card readers, camera, and several PPC. Encapsulated tenuous down the card with minimal use. To begin not recognized any device or readers or camera or ppc which rang up the flute and a reader domestic violence ... is formatted like many other SD who have gone through my hands 4 times and inserting it into a PPC disappears all content not be possible reformatting. This has happened in both SD: that of 2Gb and 4Gb. Note: As a technician had only seen once a card of such poor quality, was generous 1GB and cost 15 € for 3 or 4 months; this 4Gb are 90 € for pvp today. I have a further 6 sd, all unmarked, two of 512Mb, two 1Gb, and two of 2Gb; more than 3 years have all but those of 2Gb and never gave me any problem. | |||
| TakeMS | 2GB 133x | 2 months | Siscor |
| Used in DC60 and room Airis Mio P350 PDA. Labeled the lock is wrong (it has pointing upwards and it should be down). Used by 2 months, the 133x has nothing: it has a 33x speed = used in various devices and for a minute while another stopped working completely, does not recognize the card or anything ... | |||
| SanDisk | 2 GB | New | DELL |
| Tungten used in Palm T3. Lack of the notch side, the switch read-only. I do not read. | |||
