Handsome reward for anyone who can fix 512mb CF card

[chriszzz]

Don't mean to rub it in... but this is another reason why people should buy Lexar Media Card

Hate to burst your bubble, but Lexar gets their cards from OEMs. For eg, their SD cards are from Panasonic and Sandisk. I did a far amount of research into this when I was looking for a SD card for my PDA.

 

[BigBelly]

hi,

did u know the OEM products are the best in the market? what i mean is that when say LEXAR OEMs from Panasonic, Panasonic gives LEXAR the highest quality chips while the ones in the market are the low end ones.

same goes for HDD, RAMS etc etc.

so when you pay more for say LEXAR, it is due to branding and also a higher premium which LEXAR paid for the higher grade chips.

Hate to burst your bubble, but Lexar gets their cards from OEMs. For eg, their SD cards are from Panasonic and Sandisk. I did a far amount of research into this when I was looking for a SD card for my PDA.

 

[Wai]

The thing still spins, but cannot be recognized by the BIOS. Replaced PCB from another same-model harddisk, no help and destroyed the original PCB in the process ;p.

Regards
CK

which fujitsu model? see if i got the PCB for u to try your luck again?

 

[ckiang]

which fujitsu model? see if i got the PCB for u to try your luck again?

Hmm, harddisk is in office. I'll check and let you know. Thanks!

Regards
CK

 

[chriszzz]

hi,

did u know the OEM products are the best in the market? what i mean is that when say LEXAR OEMs from Panasonic, Panasonic gives LEXAR the highest quality chips while the ones in the market are the low end ones.

same goes for HDD, RAMS etc etc.

so when you pay more for say LEXAR, it is due to branding and also a higher premium which LEXAR paid for the higher grade chips.

No, that's not really true. A company goes to an OEM because it is more economical then making the product themselves. or they don't have the technology to do it themselves.

A company like Lexar will give Panasonic a specifications to which the product must conform. If it is a high end product, then the specs will be high and stringent. If the OEM is for a cheapo product, then the specs will be low. The pricing that OEM company gives will then depend on how high the specs are.

So it's nothing to do with OEM company giving the best product. It's just simply building to specifications. For example, those Lexar SDs that are OEMed from Sandisk are very slow, just like the original Sandisks. This is defintely not the best product in the market.

 

[Julian]

Hate to burst your bubble, but Lexar gets their cards from OEMs. For eg, their SD cards are from Panasonic and Sandisk. I did a far amount of research into this when I was looking for a SD card for my PDA.

well.. you are half right. Sandisk do not make SD cards. They do not have the licence to produce SD cards. SD are produce by Toshiba and Panasonic.

But Lexar CF card is different from the rest. With the Image Rescue Software, you can actually retrive back lost images/corrupted data ect.....

From what I learn from AP, there is no return from all the Lexar WA series CF cards sold.

 

[chriszzz]

well.. you are half right. Sandisk do not make SD cards. They do not have the licence to produce SD cards. SD are produce by Toshiba and Panasonic.
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That can't be right. Owners of Lexars SD have indicated that using a SD identification util identifies the OEM as Panasonic, and sometimes, as Sandisk. I believe the internal ID will identify the real manufacturer. I have also run those util on my SD ( which was a Twinmos ), and the manufacturer was indicated correctly as Toshiba. In other words, the util is accurate.

Anyway, a visit to www.sandisk.com reveals the truth. In the OEM page, under SD cards, Sandisk says :

"OEM SD Memory Card
The SD memory card was designed by the consortium of Matsu****a Electric (Panasonic), SanDisk and Toshiba....".

If if Sandisk was one of the SD consortium, then it definitely has the license to manufacture it, and the fact that it offers SD as OEM confirms this.

 

[ahsiang]

Dear All,
I have some very important photos take with my digital camera and are stored in a 512mb CF card. Unfortunately, while I was trying to download the photos, the CF card was deemed unreadable. I'm looking for anyone who can sincerely help me recover my photos from the CF card. It's still under warranty, but I'd rather have my photos than a new card. Pls sms me at 94885334 if you can help. Thanks.

Try P & G Camera. I heard they do recovery for memory card.

 

[BigBelly]

yes you are very right.

however when EASTGEAR wanted to put harddisk into NIXVUE products, we were told that there is an OEM product and a distribution product. of course EASTGEAR is not able to product HDD and hence had to source and hence we found this fact out.

trust me...there are indeed a few classes of product and SLQ gets the worst of the lot...ask any engineer in the semi-conductor industry and he will tell you that.

No, that's not really true. A company goes to an OEM because it is more economical then making the product themselves. or they don't have the technology to do it themselves.

A company like Lexar will give Panasonic a specifications to which the product must conform. If it is a high end product, then the specs will be high and stringent. If the OEM is for a cheapo product, then the specs will be low. The pricing that OEM company gives will then depend on how high the specs are.

So it's nothing to do with OEM company giving the best product. It's just simply building to specifications. For example, those Lexar SDs that are OEMed from Sandisk are very slow, just like the original Sandisks. This is defintely not the best product in the market.

 

[BigBelly]

was the person eric69? i'm not sure whether he updated his thread but his case was a computer system error on both his laptop and his desktop. the new card he exchanged for also demostrated the same 'errors'.

so far, i have known not a single one personally who has had a LEXAR card failed. I've seen every other brand fail before. however, this does not mean that LEXAR cards are 100% fail proof. No one can claim that and no one should but LEXAR cards have time and again proved their realibility.

What rubbish is this? All medias have a chance to fail, even if you buy a Lexar. One of them recently had a Lexar fail on them.

 

[Klipsch]

well.. you are half right. Sandisk do not make SD cards. They do not have the licence to produce SD cards. SD are produce by Toshiba and Panasonic.

But Lexar CF card is different from the rest. With the Image Rescue Software, you can actually retrive back lost images/corrupted data ect.....

From what I learn from AP, there is no return from all the Lexar WA series CF cards sold.

Blah blah blah...and let me guess. Lexars are distributed by Convergent Systems locally? Go do your sales elsewhere la dude if you're not here to help this poor fella.

 

[wibawa]

What rubbish is this? All medias have a chance to fail, even if you buy a Lexar. One of them recently had a Lexar fail on them.

I think what he means is Lexar comes with a free data recovery program. It doesn't mean that Lexar won't fail.