Customer Reviews

PNY Secure Digital SD Memory Card 1GB (P-SD1G-RF3)

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4 star:		(3)
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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

The PNY 1 GB SD card, which I purchased lasted approximately 6 minutes. Then, I received an error message "cannot read card". Formatting the card by the digital camera changed the error message to "this card cannot be used". The same message was generated by another camera - both of them worked perfectly with Kingston SD cards.

I used this card for about 3 months and then it stopped working. I can not format it on any PC because it does not recognize the card. My Pocket PC can't recognize it and my digital camera says "card memory error." I own several other cards by different companies and this is the only one that stopped working.

I recently bought a new 6.0 megapixel digital camera (Canon PowerShot S3 IS) which came with an extremely small and practically useless 16MB secure digital card so I bought a couple of these 1GB PNY PSD1GRF3 secure digital cards since they were on sale for less than $20 apiece. These SD cards are made in Japan by Toshiba (they are then rebranded and sold by PNY, Lexar, DaneElec, etc.) and I have been very pleased with them so far. They work flawlessly with no write-speed delay in my new camera while shooting still pictures or while shooting video with stereo sound, and the card reader in my HP Pavilion M7480N Media Center PC (running Windows XP Professional service pack 2) reads the pictures and video into my Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 software programs with no problems. The only drawback is that the read-speed on these standard SD cards is a bit slow when compared to the newer and faster SD cards...it takes several minutes to transfer all the pictures or video from a full 1GB card onto my PC...but I find this to be a small inconvenience rather than a big problem. So, if a little longer read time is not a problem for you, then save yourself some money and buy this card. Overall, a very good standard SD card at an excellent price!

The PNY 1GB SD which i bought at best buy. Works great. I had no problems with this card at all. If the card gets corrupted on the cameras and you try formating it on it, if it doesn't work. Try formatting it on a pc. By using a card reader.

I bought the same card when I bought my Canon digital camera about 6 months ago. I had no problems with that card so when I got my Palm I ordered this card from Amazon. I have used it in my Palm and put it in my camera as well. I have had no problem. My HP AIO has a slot for the card and reads/writes with no problems. I would buy this product from Amazon again.

Do not buy this card! I had one of these PNY cards a couple months ago because they were cheap, and i needed a large card on a vacation. So i was taking apporx, 200 photos when all of sudden, all of them got deleted and my camera started saying "Card cannot be read". I thought it was my camera hoping that the precious ONCE IN A LIFETIME photoes were not deleted, then i brought it to a computer and a print store, no hope. So now all of my photos are gone, office depot has the worst service in the world, and there is no consumer support for PNY!
I am beyond aggravated...

I have 3 of these cards and the only problems I've had were ones I created on my own. Formatting for different devices seems to be an issue with many SD cards. I've formatted cards with my PC that didn't subsequently work with my MPIO FD100 MP3 player--it turned out that the MP3 player only works if I use a FAT format rather than a FAT32 format (not that I know the significance of the difference). My wife's laptop couldn't see a card which my PC could; go figure. My solution is not to swap cards from device to device (at $35, that's easier to do), or, if I do, I perform a low level FAT format on the PC using a card reader, then make sure the device sees the card.

I've had the PNY cards for a while, I also have a kingston card, a kingmax card, and at least one SanDisk card. The only problem I've had was with the SanDisk card accessing a video application. It may have been the card; another card didn't have the same problem. Kinda makes you wonder why there isn't any disk checking software out there.

This card worked for less than 10 minutes. I took a handful of pictures, plugged the camera into my computer and copied the pictures, and when I unplugged the camera I got the error message "cannot read card". Formatting the card did not fix the problem. When I plugged it back into the computer, the camera says "connection failed", and computer can't see the camera. And judging by the other reviews here, I'm not the only one to have this problem. PNY's tech support is non-existent; there's virtually no helpful information on the site, and the email I sent them was not returned. Don't waste your time and $ - PNY needs to get their act together.

After using this sd card only twice, it can not be recognized by any of my card reader. Totally a waste of money and time. Do not buy pny brand!

I use this card in my Canon PowerShot s3. I've not had any problems, and has performed fine as far as shooting and reviewing photos on camera. File transfer via USB 2 through the camera or reader is fine and speedy. I'm happier to spend less on cards like this than to spend more on a card whose brand name will not show up outside of the camera and whose performance is comprable to any other.