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Sequitur · 02-13-03, 03:15 AM

I have been reading a number of posts, reviews, etc. about defective SD cards from SanDisk. The two most frequent complaints appear to be (i) SanDisk card malfunction after heavy or repeated use, or (ii) large file transfers result in either corrupted data files or the creation of garbage files on the SanDisk. SanDisk failures do not appear to be Axim-related, but instead appear across a number of PDA platforms.

Does anyone have any solid information on the best SD card available, and by "best" I mean most reliable, least failure-prone. I don't care about cost -- spending $20 less on a card that repeatedly fails is no savings whatever. (It may be SanDisk is, in fact, the most reliable. The failures I've read about could well be a function of SanDisk's large market share -- if you sell 50 times the product of the nearest competitor, elementary statistics say you will have more failures in absolute numbers. It's the percentage of unit failures relative to units sold that I'm concerned about.)

Am especially interested in 256 MB card (or 512 MB card, but I don't think they are widely available just yet in SD, and I don't want to blow the CF slot on storage when the SD slot is readily available).

Thank you for your response.

02-13-03, 03:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sequitur Aximsite Prospect Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 17 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I have been reading a number of posts, reviews, etc. about defective SD cards from SanDisk. The two most frequent complaints appear to be (i) SanDisk card malfunction after heavy or repeated use, or (ii) large file transfers result in either corrupted data files or the creation of garbage files on the SanDisk. SanDisk failures do not appear to be Axim-related, but instead appear across a number of PDA platforms. Does anyone have any solid information on the best SD card available, and by "best" I mean most reliable, least failure-prone. I don't care about cost -- spending $20 less on a card that repeatedly fails is no savings whatever. (It may be SanDisk is, in fact, the most reliable. The failures I've read about could well be a function of SanDisk's large market share -- if you sell 50 times the product of the nearest competitor, elementary statistics say you will have more failures in absolute numbers. It's the percentage of unit failures relative to units sold that I'm concerned about.) Am especially interested in 256 MB card (or 512 MB card, but I don't think they are widely available just yet in SD, and I don't want to blow the CF slot on storage when the SD slot is readily available). Thank you for your response.