Customer Reviews

SanDisk SDSDB-128-A10 Secure Digital 128MB (Retail Package)

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I purchased this SanDisk 128 MB Secure Digital Card for my Toshiba PRD-3300 digital camera. The first time I received the SD card from Amazon.com, I plugged it into my camera, formatted the card per the specification in the instruction manual and started taking pictures. The pictures came out scrambled on the replay option. I tried reformatting the card but then I got the message "card error". I thought that the card was defective and I returned it for replacement to Amazon.com. In approximately 4-5 days I received my second SanDisk 128 MB Secure Digital Card. I repeated the same procedure of formatting, picture taking and so on but I was getting the same result and the error message. I was ready to send the card back again, but before I did I thought I'd check around the web to see if there is any compatibility issue of this card with my camera. I went on Toshiba web site to see if I can find any compatibility issue with this card. Sure enough when I checked for new Firmware it had this:
"Latest Firmware Upgrade Features:
Improved compatibility with SanDisk brand SD Cards manufactured after May 2002, specifically for high capacity SD Cards -
128MB SanDisk SD Cards
256MB SanDisk SD Cards
Upgrade your PDR-3300 for use with these cards."

I followed the instructions, upgraded my firmware to the latest revision 1.04A and now my camera recognizes the 128MB SanDisk SD Card and it is working great.

After visiting SanDisk's web site and checking their compatibility list I decided to buy the 128MB SD card for my Palm M505. According to SanDisk's site the card is compatible with the M505; the packaging even has the "Palm" logo on it with the words, "Designed for Palm Handhelds". Fact is that the 128Mb SD from SanDisk does NOT work in Palm devices. I sent support e-mail to both SanDisk and Palm. Palm pointed their finger at SanDisk and SanDisk never responded. I did some research on my own and found that the controller used in the 128MB SD card is not the same as other flavors of SanDisk SD cards, and is in fact NOT compatible with Palm Handhelds. Shame on SanDisk for not doing their homework and shame on Palm for letting SanDisk use their trademark without verifying that the product actually is "Designed for Palm Handhelds".

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 SanDisk SDSDB-128-A10 Secure Digital 128MB, like most 128MB cards, will store on average 142 pictures when used with a 2 megapixel camera, 106 images when used with a 3 megapixel camera, 64 pictures when used with a 4 megapixel camera, 51 images when used with a 5 megapixel camera, and 40 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 bought the SanDisk 128MB SD card for use with my new Casio EX-M1 digital camera. Popped it in and immediately ran into problems -- the camera wouldn't recognize that the card was empty after formatting.

A quick call to Casio customer support solved the problem. The camera ships with the 1.00 firmware. In order to work with SanDisk's 128MB card, the 1.01 firmware is needed. After downloading the updated firmware, the card worked immediately.

I'm now quite pleased with the card's performance. It works as advertised and the expansion from the camera's built-in 12 MB to 128 MB is quite dramatic. I can now store about 160 fine resolution pictures at full-size. What more can you ask of a memory card?

Works fine on Toshiba e310 Pocket PC. You get 120MB.

I bought this SanDisk Secure Data card to use with my Magellan Meridian GPS. SD cards from Magellan are outrageously over priced and they don't tell you, you can use one of these. But it works perfectly and saved me about 70% on the cost. It was a fantastic value.
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I am using this SD memory card for a Minolta Dimage X. I can't speak to the compatibility problems others have noted, but I have to tell you that this has been an excellent memory card for me. I just slipped it into my camera and it has worked flawlessly from day one. It also seems faster than other media. There is only a slight pause as the camera writes the photo to memory.

I also found this an excellent value for the price. There are 256M cards, but they are very expensive. 128M is plenty for most digital camera uses and you can get more than 2 128M cards for the prices I've seen for one 256M card.

This card is also a great demonstration of how far technology is coming. 128M of memory on a card the size of a postage stamp! I remember when it would take banks of chips to do something like that. Now I feel old, but I am very happy with this tiny little card.

Hope this is helpful and good luck with your purchase!

I am using this memory card with the HP Photosmart 620 digital camera and HP All-In-One printer psc 2210. This digital memory card has worked great with both products. No compatability issues at all!

I started using these cards a few months ago. Bought two of them. They were a lot cheaper than those from Lexar, Simple, etc. However, you get what you pay for.

I first found out how bad these cards are when I bought a Sharp Zaurus. Apparently Sandisk does something funky in the hardware on these cards that keeps them from behaving like everyone else's cards. Whatever they have done keeps it from working on the Zaurus.

While looking through some other products here , I am now seeing that they are not working on things such as the Toshiba e740 (which I also own). The card seemed to work on mine, but only half way. I had been attributing problems to the PC2002 OS on it. Turns out I was a bit mistaken.

So, if you can get this card to work in your device, good luck to you. If you can't, get rid of the card and buy something from another manufacturer.

This is the memory card that came with my Pentax 6.1 megapixel camera. I've taken hundreds of pictures, dumped them from the camera to my hard drive, and have had no problems of any kind. At the highest quality JPEG setting, its capacity is about 40-45 pictures.

One thing I am wondering about is the speed. When I began searching for a 1GB card I noticed SanDisk touted its Ultra II card as being very fast in transferring data to the card--over 9 megabytes per second. I went back and looked at the transfer rate for this original SanDisk, and it claimed a rate of "up to 10 megabytes" per second. So the difference in speed appears to be negligible if anything. The price difference is not, however. The plain vanilla SanDisk 1GB is usually about 20-30 dollars cheaper than the 1 GB San Disk Ultra II. Besides, the transfer speed is only critical when you're using the continuous shooting mode, which I seldom use.