Transcend 8GB SDHC Card

by Transcend

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 0.3 inches ; 0.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000JMJWUS
• Item model number: TS8GSDHC Secure Digital
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 23, 2004

Product Description

Transcend Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Class 2 Card is fully compatible with SDA 2.0 specification. It is suitable for SDHC compliant devices, High Speed transfer rate. Perfect for high-end digital devices.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars HUGE but s l o w..., January 28, 2007

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Rene Ritchie "author, Legends of Wingchun" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transcend 8GB SDHC Card (Electronics)

Note: Though this is definitely the card I ordered, the one that arrived wasn't labeled as 'transcend' but as 'topram'. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

I bought this card to go with my new Treo 680. (Note, the other review is incorrect as, although the capacity will not read correctly (it maxes out at 4GB), the card will still work fine with newer Palm Treo products, and can be patched to work with others -- do a websearch for more). I like me some media, and had already filled a 2GB card with music, movie, and TV shows, and really wanted something bigger.

This card fit the bill perfectly. I've got about 5GB on it already, and it plays all the music and video files very well via pTunes and TCMP.

The only downside is that the card is *very* slow to write to, and incredibly slow to delete from. The card reader which came with it approaches bearable, but trying to delete from within the Treo itself is so slow I avoid it whenever possible.

Still, 8GB at this price is incredible.

UPDATE: I reformatted the card via command-line to use 32k block size, and this seems to have improved speed for large-sized files (music, videos, etc.)

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent High Capacity SDIO SD Card, February 25, 2007

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Thomas Farris "Clemson Tiger Fan 1989" (Mt. Pleasant, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transcend 8GB SDHC Card (Electronics)

I just loaded this into my Treo 680 and it works great. Of course this is the only palm device that currently supports 8gb SDIO (Secure Digital Input/Output) Cards. It works just like the 2gb 1gb and 512 I've used in the past. It will not work in every Secure Digital friendly device. Check to see if your device is SDIO compliant. I can confidently recommend this card.

Tad

Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Transcend 8GB SDHC Card, November 4, 2007

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W. H. Snyder (Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transcend 8GB SDHC Card (Electronics)

I bought this product for a "Cannon S5 IS" two months ago and works great, put it in took a picture no problem. By the by the "Cannon S5 IS" rocks too.