Cards SD of memory ‘buenas’ and ‘malas’

The memory cards SD, or Digital Secure, of are used in cameras of digital photos, PDAs, reproducers of music, etc. Nevertheless, some of these cards do not follow the standard dictated by the SD Card Association, which causes undesired effects, getting even to be able to spoil slot SD of the equipment in which permanently utilize. You can learn more on the subject, and how distinguishing these cards of the safe ones in this post.

Taken care of with the cards that do not fulfill the standard
Taken care of with the cards that do not fulfill the standard

This page has been created to be able to discover these noncompatible cards. Between all we will as much comment the cards SD that we have used, if have worked or, as if sometimes there are lost all our data, or even if they have gotten to spoil some device. In order to collaborate you only must send an email to mgtroyas@pdatungsteno.com with the following information:

  • Name of the manufacturer (if you know it).
  • Capacity (in Megabytes).
  • Time of use (months, years that you take using it).
  • Apparatuses in which you use it habitually.
  • If you have detected some anomaly of the listed ones in this post: lack of the lateral notch, the switch of read only, etc.
  • Result of the use: if it works perfectly, or there is lost sometimes all the content, or spoiled an apparatus and this one no longer it accepts no card SD, etc.
  • Optionally, your name or nick with which you want to appear in the list.

So if you use or you have used cards SD, it collaborates sending your experience, so that between all we discover what cards can be bought and which we must avoid. Thanks!

Proven cards SD


Manufacturer Capacity Time Proprietor
Kingston 1 Gb 4 months Hark0
Without problems at the moment.
SanDisk 128 Mb 2 years Hark0
Without problems at the moment.
stranger 256 Mb 3 months Hark0
Rejected unsuitable.
Kingston 512 Mb - poloespalm
Possible retardation when recording video.
SanDisk 1 Gb - poloespalm
Without problems at the moment.
stranger 32 Mb 2 years Marks
Digital camera Starblitz. Without problems at the moment.
Kingston 1 Gb 7 months Marks
Tungsten E2. Without problems at the moment.
PQI Corporation 1 Gb 7 months fpucheta
Palm TX, Concord camera,
Genius camera, card reader for PC. No anomaly.
Kingston 128 Mb 1 year Mahamara
Like substitute of pendrive (with an adapter), in digital cameras. Mutual incompatibility with a camera, but still is in duda… even so, vote against the camera.
Transcend 2 Gb 3 months Carlos M
T5 and sometimes interchange with camara if I think to take many photos. Once perdi all the content but went my fault when giving him reset to palm while it was reading it. Despues to take photos in hi-res with camara, inserts in the Palm and the treatment to open (sometimes if it manages them to open). I believe that with any other card the data were had lost. In the end I could recover some with a software.
Kingston 256 Mb 18 months agestrada
Without no external anomaly of the indicated ones. It works perfectly.
Markvision 512 Mb 2 months Masilva
It uses it in my T5 until it does as a month and it worked to perfeccion.
SanDisk 1 Gb 1 month Masilva
It is working very well.
SimpleTech 128 Mb 1 year Droptic
The use in the PC (I have card reader SD) and in palm zire 72. No anomaly of the commented ones. It works perfectly.
Kingston 128 Mb 18 months Droptic
The use in the PC (I have card reader SD) and in palm zire 72. No anomaly of the commented ones. It works perfectly.
Panasonic 512 Mb 6 months Phoranomus
I have been occupying it in my TX for half year and for weeks in my new camara Lumix. Until the moment I have not had any problem.
Toshiba 512 Mb 6 months GremboXic
Palm TX, Navman pin570, in PC, Camara Pentax. Without failures.
Kingston (Toshiba) 1 Gb 13 months Fracaruso
Without problem some in a Tungsten T5.
Memory Power 128 Mb 100 MB 20″ they 3dlan
Found in a concert. Very used “pc, photos, videoconsola”. Everything ok.
PQ1 512 Mb 100 MB 15″ they 3dlan
Normal use “pc, photos, videoconsola”. Everything ok.
Brave AST 512 Mb 8 months Cases
Used normally in Tungsten T5. Without external anomalies. Now the mark like card of single reading. It does not let write nor formatear it.
Corsair 512 Mb, 60x 3 months Djose
The use in palm lifedrive and camara genius, internal reader of my PC I have used enough the memory and it has not passed anything works and rápido… well;
Markvision 4Gb 1 day Anddy Perez
Used in Palm TX. CardSpeed Data: Wrt32bit: 14bytes/sec; Wrt8KB: 9188 bytes/sec; Read8KB: 2016492 bytes/sec. Anomalies are not detected, until now is working perfectly, a little slow but it goes there.
Transcend 3,85 GB (4GB segun the box) 2 months Starvenger
Used only in the reader of Markvision memories who is the unico that Lee to its maximum capacity. No external anomaly of the commented ones. As storage device works of wonder with Marvision reader, BUT, camara KODAK buys it specially to record long videos with my and it takes great sorpresa… to me; I work neither in mia nor in no of the following models: Kodak C310, Kodak C330, Kodak 340, Kodak C550, and one Camara Premier, in all the Kodak removed the error from Full Memory when really vacia and properly formateada in my PC was, when it tried it to formatear in camaras removed the error FileSys 0100.
Kingston 256 MB Elite Pro More than 1 year Luis Apablaza Galindo
Only the use in the Palm, but I read it in different peripheral, never has given problems me.
Extrememory 2 GB 133x and 4GB 133x 1 day Hark0
Used in external internal camera, card readers of photos, and several PPC. Endeble encapsulation spoils the card with a minimum use. In order to begin it reconocia ningun apparatus neither readers nor camara nor ppc until it sounded flauta and an internal reader saw... formateó like other many SD that have happened through my hands and to the 4 times to insert it in a PPC all the content disappears not being possible to return to formatear. This has happened in both SD: in the one of 2Gb and the one of 4Gb. Note: As tecnico informatico had seen once a card of so bad quality, was generica of 1GB and only cost 15? it does 3 or 4 months; this of 4Gb is 90? of pvp today. I have other 6 sd, all without mark, two of 512Mb, two of 1Gb, and two of 2Gb; they have but of 3 years all except those of 2Gb and NEVER gave ningun problem me.
TakeMS 2 GB 133x 2 months Siscor
Used in camara Airis DC60 and PDA Mio P350. Badly the Lock is labeled (they have put it indicating upwards and would have downwards to be). Used by 2 months, of 133x he does not have anything: he has = speed that one 33x used in different devices and from a minute from the other I let work COMPLETELY, does not recognize the card nor nada…
SanDisk 2 GB New DELL
Used in Palm Tungten T3. Lack of the lateral notch, the switch of read only. Do not read to me.