PNY Professional 16 GB Class 10 Hi-Speed SDHC 20MB/s 133x Flash Memory Card P-SDHC16G10-EF (Black)

by PNY

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches ; 0.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003ZHTNNU
• Item model number: P-SDH16G10-EFS2
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (171 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 12, 2010

Product Description

Size Name: 16GB | Product Packaging: Retail

From the Manufacturer

OUR FASTEST SDHC CARD TO DATE!

Capture life’s moments before they pass you by…

Designed for the enthusiast and pro photographer, the 16GB Professional Series SDHC card from PNY is designed for high speed, high capacity, continuous mode shooting from your digital SLR and HD video recorder, allowing you to capture more frames per second for the critical shot. The Class 10, 133x speed rating and lifetime warranty translates to 20MB/s write speeds for ultimate performance and reliability from the brand that is the flash memory choice of the White House News Photographers Association.

What does 20MB/s write speeds and Class 10 do for me?

How does that speed rating affect me, and my photos or videos? Well, you don’t have to be a professional photographer to utilize a Class 10 card, and the increased 20MB/s write speed can make a difference. Say you have a little one around the house and you’re chasing after them with your camera snapping away. The card’s 20MB/s transfer rate will allow you to take more photos in a shorter period of time, so whether you’re in and around the house, or out at their soccer game, the faster card will enable you to capture more of those special moments.

Standard Speed vs Hi-Speed Flash Memory

What is Class 10 Speed Rating?

The SD Association has created and defined 4 speed classes to help you identify speed and guaranteed performance capabilities/minimum requirements of SD/SDHC cards and their host products. The ratings define flash memory cards that are capable of storing video. Higher class ratings such as Class 10 translate to higher quality video capture. In the case of PNY’s Professional Class 10 card, they are guaranteed to record 1080p HD video which requires at least 10MB/s transfer rates. Speeds are reflected in megabytes per second (MB/s).

What Class Rating is Right For Me?

Class Rating	Device	Minimum Guaranteed Write Speed	Product
	Point-and-Shoot Cameras	2MB/sec - Ideal storage for your files, documents, and photos	PNY Class 2 Products
	Hi-Megapixel Point-and-Shoot Cameras Digital Camcorders	4MB/sec - Ideal for photos and video	PNY Class 4 Products
	Entry level DSLR Cameras HD Camcorders	6MB/sec - Ideal for HD video and Hi-megapixel photos	PNY Class 6 Products
	DSLR Cameras 1080p HD Camcorders	10MB/sec - Action photography, detailed photos, and HD video	PNY Class 10 Products

What Can I Store?

	32GB*	16GB*	8GB*	4GB*
Photos** 8 Megapixel	9,500	4,700	2,300	1,100
Video** 704x460 pixels, 5Mbps, 30 fps	800 min	400 min	200 min	100 min
HD Video** Standard HD at 9Mbps	450 min	225 min	100 min	50 min
Songs*** at 3.5MB	8,000	4,000	2,000	1,000

* Please note: For Flash Media Devices, 1 megabyte = 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes. Actual useable capacity may vary. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus is not available for data storage.
** Typical number of photos and video. Amount of photos and minutes of video may vary by camera/camcorder setting and manufacturer.
*** Actual number of songs may vary based on file format, compression settings, and song length.

SDHC Card Features

• Available in 4GB*, 8GB*, 16GB* and 32GB* capacities
• Compliant with SD Memory Card Physical Layer Specification Version 3.00
• SD Security Specification Ver.2.00 Compliant (CPRM Based)
• CPRM: Content Protection for Recording Media Specification
• SD File System Specification Ver.2.00 Compliant (DOS-FAT Based formatted)
• Write Protect feature using mechanical switch prevents accidental data loss
• Content Protection Mechanism – complies with highest security of SDMI standard
• Variable clock rate 0-25 MHz (standard), 0-50 MHz (high performance)
• Up to 25MB/sec read and 20 MB/sec write data transfer rate (using 4 parallel data lines)
• Card removal during read operation will never harm the content
• Designed for read-only and read/write cards
• Supports card detection (Insertion/Removal)
• Operating Temperature: -25 ºC to 85 ºC
• Storage Temperature: -40 ºC to 85 ºC
• Dimensions: 32mm x 24mm x 2.1mm
• Correction of memory field errors
• Voltage range of 2.7 to 3.6V
• Weight: 2g (typ.), 3g (max)
• SD protocol compatible
• Supports SPI Mode
• File format: FAT32
• ROHS compliant

Product Description

Designed for the enthusiast and pro photagrapher, the 16GB Professional Series SDHC card from PNY is designed for high speed, high capacity, continuous mode shooting from your digital SLR and HD video recorder, allowing you to capture more frames per second for the critical shot. The Class 10, 133x speed rating and lifetime warranty featured in the 16GB Peformance Series SDHC card translates to 20MB/s write speeds for ultimate performance and reliability from the brand that is the flash memory choice of the National Geographic Emerging Explorers Program and the White House Press Association.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

67 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Affordable High Performance early Class 10 SDHC Card, December 15, 2010

By 

T. Cramer (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PNY Professional 8 GB Class 10 Hi-Speed SDHC 20MB/s 133x Flash Memory Card P-SDHC8G10-EF (Black) (Personal Computers)

This is one of the first Class 10 SD cards that is actually affordable and doesn't cost much more than Class 6 cards. At regular price it can be a bit expensive, but catch a sale and it's a great deal.

Performance wise the card is great. I have tried it on 3 separate devices, all of which take HD video. The first was a Panasonic Lumix point and shoot camera. Set to take 720p 30fps video, the recording start and stop times were noticeably faster than my previous Class 6 card. When I performed a Delete all content, this card cleared a bit quicker than before. I also used the card in a Canon T1i and there was no lag for shooting both 720p and full HD video. With a previous Class 6 card it worked well, but occasionally there would be a hiccup in recording, especially full HD. The last was a HD pocket camcorder and again, no issues as recording was smooth and starting and stopping was instant.

Download performance is also improved with this card. I would say data downloaded to my computer at the very least 25% faster than with a Class 6 card, which may not seem drastic, but when moving several GBs of data it makes a difference. I also uploaded data from my computer to the card and the same difference was evident.

Overall it is a great memory card. Is it worth updating from a Class 6 to Class 10? If you are using a point and shoot camera and do not take HD video, then probably not. If you are using a quality DSLR camera and/or shoot HD video frequently, the upgrade to Class 10 would be worth it. If you are getting a new camera and will be shooting HD, go for the Class 10. If you will not be shooting HD, a Class 6 will be ok but if you can get the Class 10 for close to the same price, go for the 10.

Overall I can highly recommend this Class 10 PNY SD card.

55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Writing perfermance is not as fast as advertised but it's a keeper, March 19, 2011

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T. Tran "pickyguy" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: PNY Professional 16 GB Class 10 Hi-Speed SDHC 20MB/s 133x Flash Memory Card P-SDHC16G10-EF (Black) (Personal Computers)

I bought this card just to give PNY a try since Amazon lowered the price again. I also have the popular Transcend 16GB class 10 so I decided to do a quick test. I did read and write test with a full DVD ripped movie which is about 5.58GB and has combination of large and small files.
Test setup:
- Ripped full DVD 5.58GB
- Intel workstation, dual quadcore Cpus
- External USB card reader.
- Stop watch
- 64bit Windows 7 ultimate

My result

Writing test:
PNY............Transcend
14.2MB/s......17MB/s (Speed reported by windows)
7:00 mins.....5:45 mins (stopwatch)

Reading test:
PNY............Transcend
19MB/s........19.2MB/s (Speed reported by windows)
5:19 mins.....5:18:55 mins (stopwatch)


So far the Transcend beat the PNY in writing test.
I put both cards in my Canon 60D, both started slowing down after 20 frames, frame size is M-Raw. I also noticed the time to clear out the buffer is about the same for both.
Overall, both cards are fast enough for my Canon HD camcorder and Canon 60D video capture.
I bought this card for my Canon HD camcorder so the slow writing is not a problem to me and there is no reason to return for the Transcend.
I would recommend the Transcend if the PNY is more expensive.

Correction:
I had the read test result swapped. In reading, the PNY is bit faster but it's negligible.
Reading test:
PNY............Transcend
19.2MB/s.......19MB/s (Speed reported by windows)
5:18:55 mins...5:19 mins (stopwatch)

Update 5/27/2011
Some reviewers complained that the card doesn't work in FXP and MXP mode. I found that both my PNY and Transcend class 10 don't work with my Canon HF200 which released long time ago, works with class 6. I don't think it's the cards fault but Canon cam doesn't support. If you have newer camcorder then I don't think it's a problem. Otherwise, get Transcend class 6 instead and problem solved.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars can't record HD video, May 20, 2011

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M. D. K. - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: PNY 32 GB SDHC Flash Memory Card P-SDH32G10-EFS2 (Personal Computers)

i bought this for use with my canon eos t3i... it fails after a few seconds of HD video recording. i swapped in my san disk extreme III 4GB card that says 30MB/sec on it and everything works fine. i need the 32GB for recording video, but it's useless if it doesn't work. only reason i didn't give 1 star was because it works for pictures.

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