Thanks! Using a k-5, just started out.
Where will be a good place to get class 10 sd card?
IT show sometime the price go up a bit one... due to extra rental... but just 10 cent 20 cent more...
price you can check is Video Pro and Best Bargin at SLS...
Video Pro have their own website Google it for price list
Best Bargin price list at Hardwarezone...
normally they are the cheapest in SLS...
get Sandisk is good
i am curious... has anyone claimed warranty on a faulty 3 year old SD card before?
i am curious... has anyone claimed warranty on a faulty 3 year old SD card before?
Yup. If have receipt is one on one exchange if they have stock. So far only Kingston, Lexar and Sandisk is on the spot 1-1.
just make sure its warranty is by vector magnetics. they can use the card s/n to check if their stock or not. Also check if the Sandisk card you intend to get is lifetime warranty or 5 years warranty one.
i am curious... has anyone claimed warranty on a faulty 3 year old SD card before?
some more this type of Memory(memory card, Thumbdrive and SSD) have limited read-write cycle, which mean it will have high fail rate after X number of writing... not like harddisk which design to last for much longer time...
but the X number should be very huge number nowaday
so to confirm: u have claimed warranty for a 3 year old card before? meaning to say: u kept the receipt, they have stock and they honoured the warranty? good for u.
my thinking is this: 3 years ago, 2gb class 4 SD cards was the norm... so a person buying gadgets would either have bought such a card, or have such a card bundled with his purchases. today, 2gb cards are not common anymore.
in your view, do u think it is more likely that a person would upgrade to a higher capacity, higher speed card? or claim warranty on an obsolete low capacity, low speed card?
my point is this: warranty is good. the longer the better. but for mem cards, based on its low fail rates, based on how pple actually use them and based on rapid advances in digital storage technology, i consider 1 year warranty useful and impt but 3-5 yrs? lifetime warranty? its gimmicky lor...
the hassle of keeping the receipts in order to claim warranty on an obsolete product is simply not worth my time.
Reportage said:Actually what they did was upgrade the card to closest same value of the amount i paid for the card then. So basically if bought a card at $50 then, they will replace with current specs $50 card along the same series. Its a good deal when you think about it, in the sense one card for life or as long got local distributor. Then supposing that card no stock, can choose to top up to the next tier of card.
just make sure its warranty is by vector magnetics. they can use the card s/n to check if their stock or not. Also check if the Sandisk card you intend to get is lifetime warranty or 5 years warranty one.
typically, its 100,000 writes per sector. its a far more substantial number than it looks. modern sd cards are designed to spread data over the whole card and use each sector equally so unlike HDD, u dun normally get "bad sectors".
a rough calculation i found off the net:
"it would take over 10 years to wear out an area on an SD Card based on a file of any size (from 512 bytes to maximum capacity) being rewritten 3 times per hour, 8 hours a day, 365 days per year."
so unless u're buying a no-name card off a dodgy website, then u're buying Forrest Gump's proverbial box of chocolates... u never know what u're going to get.
if u're buying off the reputable stores here, sandisk, transcend, kingston, toshiba, to me, the only difference is the price and sometimes, its not even very significant.