16GB Extreme III Sd Card

by SanDisk

• Optimize continuous shooting capability
• Maximize the ability of your DSLR camera
• Extreme Performance designed with SanDisk's Enhanced Super-Parallel Processing (ESP) technology
• Offload photo/video content at extreme speeds
• 30MB/sec read/write is equivalent to 200x speed on a CD drive

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 2.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001EDTL52
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: SDSDX3-016G-A31
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (115 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

Get the card that todayâ?TMs professional photographers demand. The SanDisk Extreme III SD memory card offers turbocharged read/write speeds of up to 30MB/second, top-flight security (including a cool write protection feature that never overwrites files unless authorized), and a surprisingly high capacity in such a small size. Video, digital pics, your tunes, and the rest of your data now have a place they can call home.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

140 of 144 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Bait-and-Switch! July 6, 2011

By Dan

Amazon Verified Purchase

Beware of MemoryMoguls. You may think you are ordering the faster SanDisk 16gb Extreme 30MB/s Edition SDHC High Performance Card (SDSDX3-016G-A31) because that's what's in the item description. But they ship the slower SanDisk Extreme HD Video 16 GB SDHC UHS-1 Memory Card (SDSDRX3-016G-A21)...which is also cheaper. Bait and switch and price gouging!

Even more maddening -- the Amazon rep didn't care! Excerpt of our chat:

Me: Do you need any info about the switch they pulled?

Jayakumar: No, we don't need such information.

Me:really? then how do you prevent them from doing it to other customers? and why would I continue shopping at Amazon if you don't mind your affiliates tricking customers?

Jayakumar:I'm sorry for any misunderstanding caused. I've forward this issue to appropriate department, so that it may not happen again.

Me:Not just a misunderstanding. I've seen feedback from other customers warning of affiliates who substitute faster SD cards with slower ones, and made sure to select an affiliate without these negative comments, and double-checked the product description to ensure I was ordering the faster SD card. And I still ended up with the slower card!

Jayakumar:Yes, I made a note on it.
Is there anything else I can do for you today?
Your chat has been idle for 1 minute. If there isn't anything else I can help you with, I'm going to disconnect this chat.

91 of 95 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast, big, and reliable, but check whether you'd gain from the card before buying March 7, 2009

By Uri Raz

The card is big, reliable, and fast per the specs & the SanDisk brand name.

The card's speed would be useful in two cases - faster shoot rate when the camera can write 200x in continuous shooting, or faster download to computer when the card reader can read 200x.

Unless you checked either camera or card reader to go beyond 100x (e.g. Canon 450D does 100x top, see card readers in another review), a 16GB SanDisk Ultra II card would be a better deal - you'll get the same performance & card size for less than half the price.

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Bait & Switch #2 July 19, 2011

By Z2011

Amazon Verified Purchase

Ordered on July 8, 2011; received July 14

Supplier: Sold by MemoryMogul and fulfilled by Amazon; MemoryMogul listed on order record as "Progressive Interest Corp."

Ordered: SanDisk 16GB Extreme 30MB/s Edition SDHC High Performance Card (SDSDX3-016G-A31)

Received: SanDisk Extreme HD Video 16 GB SDHC Class 10 Memory Card (SDSDRX3-016G-A21)

Issue: What was described and pictured on the Amazon site was NOT what was received

Resolution: Item returned immediately to Amazon at their expense; will never order from MemoryMogul (Progressive Interest Corp.) again

Buyer Beware!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Photo does not match what is shipped -- read here for more info on SanDisk Extreme SD cards August 11, 2011

By Joe Beninato

Amazon Verified Purchase

I thought I was ordering the SanDisk Extreme SDHC card, and instead received the SanDisk Extreme HD Video SDHC card. It looks like SanDisk previously made a card entitled SanDisk Extreme HD Video that was 20MB/s and Class 6, which is what people in other reviews are complaining about bait and switch, etc. If I had received that, I would be very upset because it is lower performance. However, the item I received is a newer version of the SanDisk Extreme HD Video card, that is 30MB/s, Class 10, and supports UHS-1. What further confuses this whole situation is that SanDisk's web site is very much out of date, and it's not even clear which product lines they are shipping or not shipping right now. My conclusion is that although I ordered a different product, this product may be better because it supports UHS-1 as denoted by the little "I" next to SDHC on the front of the card (not shown in the photos for many SanDisk Extreme HD Video cards). Luckily, my Nikon D7000 supports UHS-1, but some cameras do not. Bottom line: be very careful shopping for SanDisk SDHC cards on Amazon as the photos, descriptions and items shipped may not match up. In my case, all 3 were different! I give Amazon 1 star for all of this confusion which is easily cleared up. The support rep I spoke with did not seem very interested in fixing the source of the problem.

55 of 63 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars SDHC Cards For Camcorders January 7, 2010

By Scorpion

Don't buy a faster memory card than you really need for your camcorder. This is one case where faster is not better.... it's just faster. Most HD camcorders are designed to work with Class 4 SDHC cards at the camcorders best recording quality.

Installing a faster memory card than your camcorder needs, is not going to make the video quality better, or make the camcorder work better. In fact, installing a faster memory card than the camcorder was designed to work with, may create problems. There are some valid technical reasons for this. As the speed of memory cards goes up, so does the power consumption of the memory card. The increase in power consumption from a Class 4 card to a Class 10 card, can be dramatic. If the camcorder was designed to use Class 4 cards, the added power consumption of a class 10 card, may degrade overall performance. Another concern is that, as speed goes up, so do the levels of electronic noise, and that can be detrimental to overall operation. Faster memory, requires faster clock speeds, and if the memory's supporting electronic circuitry was not designed to work with these faster clocking speeds, that circuitry may not operate as predictably as it does with slower memory. In summary, there are a few really good technical reasons why a faster memory card will perform poorly when it is installed in a camcorder designed to work with much slower memory. Don't do it. The really fast SDHC cards are intended for high megapixel cameras with fast sequential shooting capabilities. The electronics for those types of cameras, have been designed to work with the faster cards.

Lastly, installing faster memory than your camcorder needs, is a waste of money. For Camcorders, you can't go wrong with a SanDisk SDSDHV-016G-A15 16GB Video HD SDHC Card.... It is designed to work well with HD camcorders, and it is very reasonably priced. Read more ›