Transcend 8 GB Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card TS8GSDHC6

5 Comments

1. Ralph H. Firebaugh says:

   March 20, 2010 at 6:19 am

   4/5/08 ORDER IS STILL NOT RECIVED ??? BUT I HAVE RECIVED THE CHARGE , ON MY CREAT CARD ???? RALPH FIREBAUGH …
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. N. Iqbal says:

   March 20, 2010 at 8:16 am

   Very smple: two items

   1.) Does not pop-out of powershot G9 camera – memory card is stuck in the camera.

   2.) My other camer powershot SD550, does not recognize this memory card — dont know whether it is the camera or the memory card.

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   Rating: 1 / 5
3. S. Wood says:

   March 20, 2010 at 9:15 am

   I haven’t used it yet because the Panasonic video camera I bought to use it in has been severely backordered. It would be better when ordering a camera and a card from Amazon if I would get them both at the same time. What good is it to me to get the card 6 weeks prior to receipt of the camera. This is the problem with Amazon not stocking the card in their own warehouse and making me buy from a third party vendor. The probable good quality of this product is diluted by the hassle to get the item more conveniently. And, Amazon sends me an email weekly begging me to “review” this product that I can’t review because they haven’t shipped my camera! So Amazon needs to check what they’re doing before bugging their customers. I guess this is about all I can think of to say about this. Maybe Amazon won’t ask me about it again?
   Rating: 5 / 5
4. M. Hall says:

   March 20, 2010 at 10:15 am

   This SDHC simply does not work in ANY of devices; lifedrive, coolpix…. USB drive for SDHC cards.. A real waste of money and a monumental disappointment.
   Rating: 1 / 5
5. Tech Analyst says:

   March 20, 2010 at 12:36 pm

   When I first discovered the Transcend 8GB SDHC Card (SD 2.0 SPD Class 6) I was truly delighted. It seemed to be a high quality, high capacity well priced SDHC card with high transfer rate.

   I initially bought two of them. When they arrived and I started to use them I discovered two things:

   The 8GB Cards don’t hold 8GB of data. Even with the “Liberal” and perhaps questionable practice of using a Decimal (Base 10) approach to describe capacity of a Binary (Base 2) two device, this device doesn’t even have 8GB by this “Liberal” standard.

   Many companies, trying to save money on manufacturing, quote the storage capacity of their products in the decimal system so as to make things seem a bit larger than they actually are. A KB to a computer is 1024 Bytes whereas in non computer nomenclature a Kilo is 1000.

   The SanDisk SD Cards register at 7.6 GB (Using Binary Measure even after format and file system overhead was taken into account), whereas these Transcend SD Cards only had 7.44 GB (Using Binary Measure also including file system overhead) which fell short of 8,000,000,000 when converting to Decimal.

   It seems that the manufacture got the 8GB number claimed on the label by doing some creative accounting which rounds up to the nearest Gigabyte.

   Now for many this might not be a big deal, but if you actually have video that takes an actual 8GB and wanted to play it on a portable device, then sort of 8GB doesn’t really work for you.

   I can’t say to the file, “Well when you round up to the nearest GB then there is enough space for you”

   The other thing that I noticed was that the SanDisk 8GB SDHC CARD (SD 2.0 Class 2) handled data transfers just as fast as this Class 6 did. I thought this was supposed to be faster?

   Overall an okay SDHC card but BE AWARE THAT IT ISN’T REALLY 8GB!
   Rating: 3 / 5