Customer Reviews

Lexar Media 256 MB Secure Digital Card (Retail Package)

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1 star:		(7)

 

 

How many pictures will it store? It is the most commonly asked question from digital camera enthusiast but usually the question that is the most difficult to get a straight answer about. Well, considering I worked in the memory industry for over 7 years I can help clarify this perplexing question and do so unbiased as I have since changed industries.

The Lexar Media 256MB Secure Digital Card, like most 256MB cards, will store on average 284 pictures when used with a 2 megapixel camera, 213 images when used with a 3 megapixel camera, 128 pictures when used with a 4 megapixel camera, 102 images when used with a 5 megapixel camera, and 80 pictures when used with a 6 megapixel camera. These numbers are based off the assumption that you are going to shoot your images at the highest quality JPEG setting available for the camera and understand that they are estimates and may be off by as much as 10 percent due to numerous factors including the complexity of the scene being shot and the compression algorithm used by your specific camera.

I truly hope this review was helpful to you in determining whether this card is the right capacity for your specific needs.

I have experienced with many of the sd memory cards and let me tell you from the best to the worst... Lexar, Simpletech and Panasonic sd cards are the top quality cards from Japan. Read and write speed is amazing(20x or 3Mb/s write and 30x or 5Mb/s read). Sandisk, Viking and PNY are the worst, write at 3x or 500Kb/s. Sandisk and PNY have read speed of 8x or 1.2Mb/s only, Viking is good at read speed(30x or 5Mb/s). Many stores carries the Sandisk because they cheap and of poor performance and they are mainly made in Taiwan or China. PNY can be found only in a few stores like Bestbuy, CompUSA and CircuitCity and they are made in Taiwan too. The Lexar sd card, in my opinion is the fastest right now. If you have a USB 2 card reader connected to a USB 2 port on a PC, just copy a 100MB folder and time it. You will be amazed with the write speed. Look for the High Performance logo on the packaging and sometimes they even advertise the speed like 12x, 24x or 32x. I kind of gambled when I bought from Amazon because there is no picture but the low price and outstanding service is too tempting to let go.

Lexar makes some of the best flash memory on this planet. I've owned CompactFlash and Secure Digital cards from Lexar, Sandisk as well as generics from CompUSA. By far Lexar's offerings are the most reliable, giving me 100% error-free performance. Lexar cards also appear to be faster and more power-efficient, although I haven't done any rigorous testing, just experience. (CompUSA's are the worst -- I actually lost data on their 128MB CF card!) I'm a Pocket PC freak and I load my flash memory with tons of multimedia content, so reliability and speed are important to me.

In the past Lexar cards were a bit pricier than some other brands, but recently Lexar has become very competitive and many of their products are actually among the cheapest. Great quality + great value = totally recommended.

Note: You should still always back up your data regularly. On the Pocket PC, use the back-up function in ActiveSync. On any device, just copy the entire content of the card to a folder in your Windows Explorer.

I have tried many brands of SD cards (Lexar, Vicking, Sandisk, etc) in my palm TT, and by far Lexar makes the most reliable memory cards on the market. The are faster than any other brand. Sandisk cards are the cheapest in the market, and I bought one 256MG, and in the card only work a couple of hours and I lost all my data. Vicking is much better than Sandisk, but it doesnt have the speed of the Lexar cards. The only downside of lexar is price, but is not much, and for me is worth it. Go with Lexar, you wont regret it.

I purchased a Lexar 256mb SD card several weeks ago. It worked great for a few days, and then died. The card was full of directories all named ".", and it could not be reformatted.

As it turns out, Lexar sources most of their cards from SanDisk, and the controller in those cards is not currently compatible with the Dell Axim. If your card was made in China or Taiwan, it will most likely only work for a week or two before corrupting. If you get a card that was made in Japan, you'll be OK.

Lexar was very good about taking my bad card back, and I'm happy now that I have a Japanese card. It's rock solid and has no problems.

Purchased 2 of these recently and haven't had a problem. Makes it very easy to travel and take nearly 600 high resolution pics (3 MP).

While the lexar works fine, the write protect slider tends to become loose, and can cause you to be unable to write. While this can be fixed with a little tape, it is likely better just to get another brand.

I recently got a Minolta F100 camera as a gift from my Employer. It came with a 16mb Toshiba SD memory card. I quickly realized that small memory card was not going to cut it. Looking around the web I found the Lexar Media 256mb on sale here at Amazon and purchased the card. The card has been great and really allows one to capture tons of pictures without the need of a computer to offload. I can store 255 images at 2272x1704 with standard compression. Enough for even the most ambitious vacation plans.

An amazing product at a great price! It's hard to believe a postage size card can hold 256mb of data. I look forward to cost effective 512mb and 1024mb cards in the future. One thing I know for sure is it will be a Lexar Media product.

I agree with all reviews stating that Lexar is one of the best performers (or at least used to be). Apparently, Lexar cards are rebranded cards from Panasonic, Toshiba and ... Sandisk. So, I rated the item with only three stars for buyers to be aware of the fact that they may still get a Sandisk SD rebranded as Lexar SD. The OEM can, for example, be seen in the card info menu in Palm TT.

I had the same problem as one of the other reviewers below: The read-only lock on the card I received also stuck out too far. Whenever I inserted the card in my Kodak dx6490 camera the lock was pushed back, and I got an error message saying that the card was protected. I tried to make the lock stick to the unlock position in every imaginable way, and finally reaching a point of desperation, I pushed the lock to the unlocked position and broke it off. That didn't work: The card still appears to be locked, and is entirely useless.

This situation got me stuck in Belize with nothing but the small internal memory of my camera, and I had to buy a couple of very overpriced 32MB cards while I was there.

I can't recommend buying this product at all.