Transcend 16 GB Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card TS16GSDHC6E
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Transcend 16 GB Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card TS16GSDHC6E
Customer Review: FYI to all & especially to those 1 star reviewers
Summary: 4 Stars
I have five of the 16 GB version of this card. I've had numerous other brands with mostly the same experiences from all of them.
The first of these cards did give me a problem of not being recognized by my computer after 40-50 uses (of a dozen to several hundred shots each time).
The really great thing about nearly all of the removable flash media is that you can get excellent repair/recovery (& testing) software from at least two major manufacturers of the cards (Sandisk & Lexar). I have both & they were either free (with the purchase of one of the higher priced "pro" cards) or at around $29.99 otherwise. Both are excellent. I do prefer the Lexar's Image Rescue 3 (version 4 may be available now) You can recover 90% - 100% of your pictures if the card is not physically damaged too badly. Most cards that "go bad" are not physically damaged but have just lost the Index or it got corrupted on the card.
These programs are very easy to run & I have recovered nearly all pictures from dozens of cards for friends & family. Just wish that there was software this cheap & easy for computer disk drives as it's very very expensive to have them go through a recovery process!
Notes:
the amount time to recover photos will depend on the no. of GB on your card.
also it will recover any & all photos that it finds - so if you used the card to full capacity back a couple of years ago on vacation then many of those photos will be found & recovered. This if you have only been doing small numbers of photos at a time since. Then older pictures further down on the card have not been overwritten.
By doing a "Format" of the card each time you put it back in your device (Camera, Camcorder .....) It resets the index to like new again & all the pointers to your pictures are gone. Deleting either individual pictures or a delete all only serves to remove pointers to the photos & does not reset/renew the index! I always re-format in the device that it will be used in!
In any of the cases of card not reading (whether or not you can get going again by "formatting" the card) or you just accidentally deleted (or deleted all) or formatted the card - as long as you do not take pictures on the card then most of your previous pictures are still on there & may be recovered!
Physically damaged cards many times can not be recovered but I have had pretty good luck getting several of them to read long enough to recover many pictures.
almost forgot - the Lexar software can do a nice fix of a card that is not physically damaged by using the "tools" options. Be sure to use this type software on brand new cards to look for card errors. The extensive testing that the software can do from the same "tools" options really helps you know about the long term reliability of the new card. Cards with initial errors right out of the box need to be sent back as this is an indication of future problems!
Hope this helps some of you.
Customer Review: Great affordable 8GB SDHC card
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently bought this 8GB SDHC card for my Canon SD1000 camera. The card works very well and I've had no problems with it so far. If you're in the market for an affordable high quality SDHC card, this may be the one for you. Sorry, I kind of sounded like a used car salesman right there, didn't I? I assure you that I don't work for Transcend. But, here's why I think this card is awesome:
Pros:
-Affordable!
-Large 8GB capacity
-Class 6 read/write speed (which is the fastest speed currently available)
-Lifetime warranty (at least that's what the package says :)
-Transcend is a reputable company that's been making memory products for a very long time. ( I swear to the tech Gods that I don't work for them!)
Cons:
- I can't think of any right now. The closest thing to a "Con" that I can think of is that if you buy this card now, it will probably become cheaper in a month or so :) No, make that 2 weeks.
IMPORTANT SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT SDHC MEMORY CARDS:
-SDHC cards are not compatible with most older SD cameras, SD devices, or SD card readers.
-SDHC cards are rated by speed using different "classes". There are currently three data transfer speed classes available for SDHC cards. These classes are "class 2, class 4, and class 6". For example, "Class 2" would have the slowest read/write speed while "Class 6" has the fastest read/write speed. So if you have a device in which speed may play a crucial role, make sure you buy a higher "class" SDHC card. Again, this SDHC card has the fastest read/write speed available right now. Class 6 has a minimum read/write speed of 6mb/sec... while Class 2 has minimum speed rating of 2mb/sec, and Class 4 is 4mb/sec. Starting to see the pattern?
SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "SD CARDS" AND "SDHC CARDS?
SDHC is basically an upgrade to the older SD cards. The reason they upgraded it was to achieve greater data transfer speeds AND capacity than previously possible with normal SD cards... and to do this, they had to redesign the card (which is why it's not compatible with normal SD devices). This was necessary because digital cameras and digital video cameras these days have higher resolutions, which equate to larger file sizes and faster data transfer needs.
I hope I haven't confused everybody by going into this much detail, but I can't help being the nerd that I am. If you are confused, don't hesitate to comment on this post and I will try my best to answer your questions. Also, any feedback is always welcome!
Conclusion: Buy the card if you have a new device that uses SDHC. It rocks! (This message has been approved by the "Duke of New Mexico")
Customer Review: Great affordable 8GB SDHC card... and fast too.
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently bought this 8GB SDHC card for my Canon SD1000 camera. The card works very well and I've had no problems with it so far. If you're in the market for an affordable high quality SDHC card, this may be the one for you. Sorry, I kind of sounded like a used car salesman right there, didn't I? I assure you that I don't work for Transcend. But, here's why I think this card is awesome:
Pros:
-Affordable!
-Large 8GB capacity
-Class 6 read/write speed (which is the fastest speed currently available)
-Lifetime warranty (at least that's what the package says :)
-Transcend is a reputable company that's been making memory products for a very long time. ( I swear to the tech Gods that I don't work for them!)
Cons:
- I can't think of any right now. The closest thing to a "Con" that I can think of is that if you buy this card now, it will probably become cheaper in a month or so :) No, make that 2 weeks.
IMPORTANT SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT SDHC MEMORY CARDS:
-SDHC cards are not compatible with most older SD cameras, SD devices, or SD card readers.
-SDHC cards are rated by speed using different "classes". There are currently three data transfer speed classes available for SDHC cards. These classes are "class 2, class 4, and class 6". For example, "Class 2" would have the slowest read/write speed while "Class 6" has the fastest read/write speed. So if you have a device in which speed may play a crucial role, make sure you buy a higher "class" SDHC card. Again, this SDHC card has the fastest read/write speed available right now. Class 6 has a minimum read/write speed of 6mb/sec... while Class 2 has minimum speed rating of 2mb/sec, and Class 4 is 4mb/sec. Starting to see the pattern?
SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "SD CARDS" AND "SDHC CARDS?
SDHC is basically an upgrade to the older SD cards. The reason they upgraded it was to achieve greater data transfer speeds AND capacity than previously possible with normal SD cards... and to do this, they had to redesign the card (which is why it's not compatible with normal SD devices). This was necessary because digital cameras and digital video cameras these days have higher resolutions, which equate to larger file sizes and faster data transfer needs.
I hope I haven't confused everybody by going into this much detail, but I can't help being the nerd that I am. If you are confused, don't hesitate to comment on this post and I will try my best to answer your questions. Also, any feedback is always welcome!
Conclusion: Buy the card if you have a new device that uses SDHC. It rocks! (This message has been approved by the "Duke of New Mexico")
Customer Review: Quirky.
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this SD card for 2 applications:
1) I am a musician who records himself and his students practicing with a "mere" digital pocket camera (both a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4K 8.1MP Digital Camera with 10x Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black) and a Canon PowerShot A720IS 8MP Digital Camera with 6x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom, depending on which movie format I need -- this card works great in both) set on "movie" mode. I've reached the point where I've needed more storage time than I had on the high-performance/speed 2GB Kingston and SanDisk cards I was using, and this card has performed remarkably well.
2) I also make audio-only recordings of myself, as well as rehearsals and performances of larger ensembles I play with on my Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder, and this card should provide about 8-hours of recording time at CD quality. I tend to record at higher quality levels (up to 96kHz, 24-bit), so I need more recording space than most. The device (advertised to accept up to 16GB SD cards) takes a while to recognize this card and to format it, but it seems to work pretty well after that.
I was VERY impressed with this card, and the price is almost so low it's scary -- but I believe it's worth it, at least for recording video. As for audio....
The biggest negative is that once it has a bunch of data on it, it takes a VERY long time to format (also, the H2 can't recognize it -- not even to reformat for its own use -- if it's been formatted for the Canon, and I haven't had this problem with other SD cards). I had it about 1/2 full with .avi files, and it took 15 MINUTES (!!!) to format on a Core2 Quad Processor (Q6600) with 4 GB of RAM through the computer's media port slots (connected via an internal USB bus). Most SD cards of 2GB-4GB take only a matter of SECONDS to format this way; this card formatted in seconds also the FIRST time, but subsequent attempts have taken MUCH longer, as described above.
This has me a bit nervous as to what's going on. Is the computer having to fix data errors on the card along the way? What's the holdup? I'm concerned enough that I won't be using this card to record my more important gigs -- it will remain in my case as an emergency backup.
Recommended with hesitation....
Customer Review: You can never have too much memory!
Summary: 5 Stars
This Transcend 16 GB SDHC card is a great value for my money. Over the past ten months, I have purchased a total of three Transcend SDHC cards (two 16GB + one 8GB). They have proven to be fast and reliable, with absolutely no problems.
As first, I was skeptical about Transcend's speed rating of 'class 6', which means minimum 6MB/S when writing. But my own benchmark results (see Customer Images) showed that this card is capable of writing typical photo files at 10.5MB/S - nearly twice its specified minimum data transfer rate. In comparison, the SanDisk Ultra II 16 GB is priced similarly, but only rated as 'Class-2. On the other hand, the SanDisk Extreme III 16GB is much faster, but costs twice as much.
I am currently using a Transcend 16GB card in my new Canon Rebel T1i/500D. I have heard that some other brands of 'class-6' cards cannot keep up with the camera in video mode, and will cause buffer overflow within a few minutes. But this Transcend card has worked perfectly for me.
For digital cameras, most people may find that a 4GB card (which can store around 1000 JPEG images) is more than enough. But in my case, I prefer to shoot in RAW+JPEG mode, which means each picture occupies around 25-30MB. Once I started shooting HD video, the memory burns up even faster, so the extra large capacity is really appreciated. I'm about to purchase my 3rd 16GB card next, because you can never have too much memory!
[Update on Sep 14, 2009]
I have highly recommended Transcend SDHC cards in the past, becuase they were much cheaper than Sandisk Extreme III (class-6) cards, and worked just fine in my applications. But in light of many complaints about Transcend card failures, and my recent finding that SanDisk Ultra II (class-2/4) cards are just as fast as Transcend 'class-6' cards, I must now recommend Sandisk Ultra II as a better and safer choice.