Best memory manufacturer

Ned · Post by **Ned** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:03 am

I need to buy some SD cards for a video project and I'm debating which company to buy from.

What company do you like and WHY specifically.

Contenders:
PNY
Kingston
Kingmax
Lexar
Crucial
SanDisk
Ridata
Corsair
etc.

Some people here seem to love corsair, so I was considering this one:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820233017

Thanks for your help

OH! One more: What's the deal with some makers stating R/W speed and others completely ignoring any mention of it?

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:26 am

I have a 1GB SanDisk for my MP3 player and its nice. Of course you can't go wrong with Crucial either. Corsiar is a good company. (1GB of it is powering my Athlon64 system)

Not too sure of the whole R/W rate thing. I don't think its a problem unless the device you are using the card in is faster than the card though. Most don't even list though.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:31 am

I have that same Corsair product except 256MB in my camera. No problems yet.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:22 pm

i now have 2GB of Kingston Hyper-X DC-DDR 3200 for my Asus Powered HP.

2x 1GB Modules Registered DDR 3200 Dual Channel Mode

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:41 pm

Got 1GB Corsair and 2.5GB GEiL (all DDR400). Never had a problem w/ them.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:06 pm

For those of you not reading posts entirely, he's talking about FLASH memory, not RAM.

You know, the ★■◆● they use in digital cameras and certain portable mp3 players.

That being said, I've used both Lexar and Fujifilm media and never had any problems. Both are quite reliable.

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:52 pm

Using 4 types here, all with no problem. Check bananapc.com too, they have great sales on flash mem often

using:

Simple Technologies
Olympus
Sandisk
Samsung

All with no issues

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 1:20 pm

I have a SanDisk MP3 player, which I'm assuming uses the same type of memory as their SD cards, and I have no complaints with it.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:06 pm

Doh

I'm a bit wary about SanDisk since I got that 512MB Cruzer Micro pen drive that got corrupted on a regular basis (and thus became useless). That thing was also exceptionally slow writing stuff (slower than a USB 1.1 device even it's 2.0.) As far CF/SD/MS cards go I use mostly SanDisk or Lexar w/o problems so far.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:56 am

dad uses SanDisk and Olympus in his Digi Cam.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:33 am

doesnt all memory come from one or two places.

Ned · Post by **Ned** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:11 pm

Thanks for the ideas

I am surprised at the huge speed differences

Sam's was selling some SD cards with 150kB/sec transfer rate

THe corsair I mentioned is like 6 MB/sec

Apparently that affects the lag between photos, in videos modes it may or may not cause a freeze