Customer Reviews

AmazonBasics SDHC Class 10 16 GB Secure Digital Card

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I used H2testw v1.4 to test 4 different cards that I bought on Amazon. To be fair I bought two of each. All 4 tested without errors, but the Amazon Basic cards tested slower on both the reads and writes. Not by much though.

EXTERNAL USB CARD READER:

Amazon 16GB Class 10 SDHC - #1
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 13.3 MByte/s
Reading speed: 16.4 MByte/s

Amazon 16GB Class 10 SDHC - #2
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 13.4 MByte/s
Reading speed: 12.9 MByte/s

Transcend 16gb Class 10 SDHC - #1
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 14.1 MByte/s
Reading speed: 16.7 MByte/s

Transcend 16gb Class 10 SDHC - #2
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 14.0 MByte/s
Reading speed: 16.5 MByte/s

EDIT - 9/18/11

I ran the same tests using an internal SD card reader on my laptop instead of an external USB card reader. I also tested a pair of the Transcend 8gb Class 10 (FAST!!).

INTERNAL READER:

Amazon 16GB Class 10 SDHC - #1
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 15.1 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.2 MByte/s

Amazon 16GB Class 10 SDHC - #2
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 15.7 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.3 MByte/s

Transcend 16gb Class 10 SDHC - #1
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 16.6 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.9 MByte/s

Transcend 16gb Class 10 SDHC - #2
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 15.9 MByte/s
Reading speed: 20.3 MByte/s

Transcend 8gb Class 10 SDHC - #1
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 17.7 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.6 MByte/s

Transcend 8gb Class 10 SDHC - #2
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 17.2 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.3 MByte/s

Transcend 16GB Class 10 SDHC Card (TS16GSDHC10)

I received this item as a gift since I love taking pictures and HD video. All of that can really eat up space quickly, so I was glad I got a SDHC card.

I've used many other amazon basic items like HDMI cables and other electrical cords, and they've all served me well, so I didnt worry about a amazon branded SDHC card. For all I know, they're probably made on the same assembly line as a big brand name card like SanDisk or PNY.

Write speeds, they're quick. My old camera used to make me wait 2-3 seconds after taking a photo, and waiting for it to write on my old old SanDisk 2GB SD card. Now after using this, instantly, I can shoot more photos and videos without needing to wait for it to write to the card.

Read speeds are pretty quick, all my pictures and videos showed up within seconds. My old Sandisk would make me sit there for a minute or two while it read each image and created preview icons for them in windows.

I highly recommend it to anyone who's into photography or just likes to shoot tons of videos/photos. I tend to copy everything and save it on my computer when the card starts to get full, but if you're the type of person who saves it all on SD cards for a long time, you might opt to get a 8 or 16GB card instead.

16GB Amazon Basics class 10. corrupt data. I don't need much more than that in this review. Maybe we got a bad card, I don't know. My wife used it for the first time on her Canon T3i and when she imported the photos (all raw format) she had 5 with severe data corruption. She has never had a single photo corrupt from this camera in over 5000 images shot. I took the card, reformatted it, and shot 60 test images. I got 4 that had corrupt data. This is the first non sandisk card I have bought in 5 years, I was lured by the price, 1/2 of what a similar card was from sandisk. I guess the old saying is true, you get what you pay for. Sent it back to amazon for a refund and I am getting a class 4 sandisk which is about the same price.

I purchased this as a lightening deal and figured I would take a shot. Apparently my entire life I lived under the delusion that a memory card is just a memory card. WRONG!!! I used the card in my camera and it worked great for about 15 test shots. I brought the camera with me to a concert, excited to have ample room for a lot of pictures. Well it turned into a nightmare. I was able to take 3 or 4 pictures and then the camera would say "processing" for almost 10 minutes before I could take another picture. I put the camera aside, used my cell phone for pictures and then would try the camera again. It did this every single time I tried to use it. My first thought was that my trusty camera was going, but on a whim I tried switching out the card to the Transcend 16 gig card. The camera worked fine afterwards. To make matters worse, any pictures that I had taken on this card were corrupted and I couldn't get them off the card so I lost a good chunk of concert photos. The following day, after formatting the card, I tried it again with just random pictures around the house. Same exact results, it works fine in the beginning and then the "processing" issue starts. I tried the card in 4 different cameras all with the same results as well.

Lesson learned the hard way & I'll pay more attention to what I'm getting.

Let me start by saying that I love Amazon and have purchased many Amazon Basic Products. I have had no issues with any of their other products, but this one is completely defective. I am a professional photographer and I read some of the other reviews of this product but decided to give it a shot regardless. I did not however use it on any of my paid shoots because the reviews made me a bit nervous.

The very first use of this card was with my Nikon D7000 and about 20 shots in I started noticing that about 1/3 of my images were blacked out. After making sure everything was fine with my camera and lens, I started shooting again and the camera displayed an error code for the card. This camera has never had an issue before or since I used this card. I was able to load the images taken on this card to my computer (shot in raw format) and the black bar was in nearly every image.

This card my be worth the gamble if you are shooting just for fun, but I would personally recommend purchasing cards from sandisk or lexar. Don't risk it!

Like I said before, I love Amazon, but I find it necessary to leave an honest review.

I tested the 8 GB Class 10 Amazon Basics SDHC flash memory card with a Nikon D80 set to continuous shooting. I did comparison tests with a Transcend Class 6 card, a Panasonic Class 4 card, a Kingston Elite 50x card, and an unknown speed Patriot card.

Here are my results:

Amazon Class 10 card: 6 continuous frames before lagging, 6.5 seconds to recovery

Transcend Class 6 (2 different cards): 5 continuous frames before lagging, 8 seconds to recovery

Panasonic Class 4 card: 5 continuous frames before lagging, 6.5 seconds to recovery

Kingston Elite 50x card: 5 continuous frames before lagging, 6.5 seconds to recovery

Patriot card: 5 continuous frames, 21 seconds to recovery (ouch!)

Time to recovery means when the LED on the camera goes out, indicating that the camera's buffer has been fully written to the card and it's ready for more photos.

As you can see, the Class 10 Amazon has the others beat, but not by a huge margin. Still, with the Amazon card costing about the same as the others, you get an extra shot with the Amazon Class 10 before it lags and has to empty the camera buffer to capture another image (that's what the lag is).

Definitely a recommended buy.

Lost my daughter's 1st concert solo video and related stills. Halfway thru, get "Check Card" message. Thinking card full, shut down and changed cards.
Today, can't open any files on card, due to corrupt data. Both camera and pc give corrupt data messages......

I immediately put this in our Panasonic Lumix when we got it and for pictures it works great. Rapid fire shots work fantastic. The camera keeps right up using this RAM.

However, when I tried using it for videos, something I do all the time using my Sandisk high end card, it would crash the camera. Replacing it with the Sandisk Ultra would clear up the problem.

I did this repeatedly, so it was definitely attributable to the card, not the camera. Sandisk Ultra, fine. Amazonbasics, crash.

But when you consider the cost of the card and the quality for the money, you have to give it four stars.

Nothing beats my Sandisk Ultra so I reserve the fifth star for that.

While this is supposed to be a class 10 card, it's so slow in my digital camera that after taking a pic, it takes an extra sec or two before the camera is readied again.

It's very surprising, because an older (class unknown) card that I bought 3 years ago didn't have the extra sec or two problem in the same digital camera.

I didn't do a benchmark and see which SD card was faster, but my assumption of a brand new class 10 card was it ought to be faster than a 3-year old SD card as least in a digital camera.

I returned it the same day it arrived.

I cannot offer the technical reviews that others have posted; I don't have the expertise. But I tried this memory card out in three separate cameras, and it performed flawlessly in all. I ran it through two different Panasonic point-and-shoots, one of them the wonderful Lumix DMC-TS3, and had no problems. Then I ran it through my Nikon D90, and if any deficiencies were going to appear, I figured it would be there. I went outside and shot about three dozen photos with both macro and telephoto lenses, and then ran about ten photos on continuous shooting; no problems. I did the same thing indoors, and had no problems. I ran all three cameras through video mode, too, and encountered no problems with playback. I also had no problems with any computer interface, popping this card into three of the five computers in my home. The autoplay worked just fine in all of them, with no problems or delays in opening any photo or video.

Bottom line: would I buy one of these cards? Sure. If you're a real tech geek and the tiny spec numbers don't all add up for you, maybe a more finely tuned and more costly memory device will work better for you. But for us normal folk, this one will do the trick.