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Lexar Media 256 MB Secure Digital Card

Lexar Media 256 MB Secure Digital Card

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Stopped working after 4 days
Review: After a couple of days of it working fine, it just crapped out. I was uploading songs to it when I got an error message. It wouldn't detect it when I tried to format it and did not detect it in the G drive. So I'm getting it replaced and hopefully the next one will be better. I guess the previous poster was right, because it was made in Taiwan, not Japan. So I don't know, maybe the Japanese ones are fine, but I'd avoid the Taiwan ones. Which is what Amazon shipped me...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Working Good for Me
Review: First of all... the price and quality are superb.

I have owned mine for about nine months now enduring vacations in Austria and Mexico City. I have had absolutely no problems with my photos (regardless of the countless times I've erased single/all photos as well as formatted the card).

You will be pleased with this SD card.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: How many pictures will it store?
Review: How many pictures will it store? It is the most commonly asked question from digital camera enthusiast but usually the question that is the most difficult to get a straight answer about. Well, considering I worked in the memory industry for over 7 years I can help clarify this perplexing question and do so unbiased as I have since changed industries.

The Lexar Media 256MB Secure Digital Card, like most 256MB cards, will store on average 284 pictures when used with a 2 megapixel camera, 213 images when used with a 3 megapixel camera, 128 pictures when used with a 4 megapixel camera, 102 images when used with a 5 megapixel camera, and 80 pictures when used with a 6 megapixel camera. These numbers are based off the assumption that you are going to shoot your images at the highest quality JPEG setting available for the camera and understand that they are estimates and may be off by as much as 10 percent due to numerous factors including the complexity of the scene being shot and the compression algorithm used by your specific camera.

I truly hope this review was helpful to you in determining whether this card is the right capacity for your specific needs.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Lexar may be a Sandisk
Review: I agree with all reviews stating that Lexar is one of the best performers (or at least used to be). Apparently, Lexar cards are rebranded cards from Panasonic, Toshiba and ... Sandisk. So, I rated the item with only three stars for buyers to be aware of the fact that they may still get a Sandisk SD rebranded as Lexar SD. The OEM can, for example, be seen in the card info menu in Palm TT.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The slide lock key is too weak
Review: I bought it last april and i didnt realize that slide lock key was too weak, and now I try to write data but a message is about the data is secure (locked).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A good product
Review: I bought this card a month ago for my new Kodak DX6340. I have not had any problem with the card and the camera. I chose Lexar over other brands because of its low price and good experience with Lexar 256MB JumpDrive 2.0. My card came from J&R (through amazon.com) and has "Made in Japan" on the back of card.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Very Fast and reliable
Review: I bought this memory card to use it with my digital camera but then I bought a memory card reader and I've been using it to store music and videos, too.

The memory has been very fast and reliable and I have never taken as many pictures to full 256Mb. But for the media, sometimes I found 256Mb to be insufficient. Sometimes I think a 512Mb card would have been better for my needs.

There's a similar SD/MMC model which is packed with a portable reader (key chain) and you should take a look at it because it seems very tempting.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Read-only lock problem
Review: I had the same problem as one of the other reviewers below: The read-only lock on the card I received also stuck out too far. Whenever I inserted the card in my Kodak dx6490 camera the lock was pushed back, and I got an error message saying that the card was protected. I tried to make the lock stick to the unlock position in every imaginable way, and finally reaching a point of desperation, I pushed the lock to the unlocked position and broke it off. That didn't work: The card still appears to be locked, and is entirely useless.

This situation got me stuck in Belize with nothing but the small internal memory of my camera, and I had to buy a couple of very overpriced 32MB cards while I was there.

I can't recommend buying this product at all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Lexar rock solid as always
Review: i have a 128 Mb SD card and went with lexar based on prior experience and it was worth it this card is made in taiwan and now comes in a small holder for the card

highly recomnded

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fast read and write performance, great sd memory.
Review: I have experienced with many of the sd memory cards and let me tell you from the best to the worst... Lexar, Simpletech and Panasonic sd cards are the top quality cards from Japan. Read and write speed is amazing(20x or 3Mb/s write and 30x or 5Mb/s read). Sandisk, Viking and PNY are the worst, write at 3x or 500Kb/s. Sandisk and PNY have read speed of 8x or 1.2Mb/s only, Viking is good at read speed(30x or 5Mb/s). Many stores carries the Sandisk because they cheap and of poor performance and they are mainly made in Taiwan or China. PNY can be found only in a few stores like Bestbuy, CompUSA and CircuitCity and they are made in Taiwan too. The Lexar sd card, in my opinion is the fastest right now. If you have a USB 2 card reader connected to a USB 2 port on a PC, just copy a 100MB folder and time it. You will be amazed with the write speed. Look for the High Performance logo on the packaging and sometimes they even advertise the speed like 12x, 24x or 32x. I kind of gambled when I bought from Amazon because there is no picture but the low price and outstanding service is too tempting to let go.


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