Cheap Memory Card Deals discussion

Pthree

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/cameras/accessories/memory-cards-readers/sd-cards/pny-performance-sdhc-memory-card-16gb-twin-pack-21359595-pdt.html

I was looking at these for my camera as its a pretty good deal, if they are any good - has anyone used this brand before?

Rom_london

Hi Pthree no I haven't but I've bought some dodgy brand SD cards of late. they're all still going, and they all speed test at the listed 4-10 download speed they're sold as. you should be fine

ncp1951

Tesco have a Twin Pack of Sandisk 8GB SDHC Class 4 for £6. Product Code is 280-5947. The picture shows the cards as micro, but they are STANDARD size cards. (Left review showing this and contacted Tesco).

A very cheap price, with the back up of a known company, unlike Ebay.

kiat_huang

Having bought a memory card that claimed was "upgraded" to 32GB Class 10, I tested it before using with f3 (similar to H2testW, but runs on Linux) and found it performed as a 4GB Class 2 card. It even had data loss at around 2GB. I put in for a refund from eBay. Seeing that a lot of buyers had experienced this but eBay had not seen to the problem of allowing sellers to sell these cards which they know to be sub-standard, I made this petition which we'll use to show eBay the extent of the issue. Please sign if you agree!

Petition -- on www DOT change DOT org "eBay : stop permitting sellers to sell fake upgraded memory cards"

pseeker_2

Since this topic features in the newsletter this week, just a quick reminder:

Got things on your computer/phone you care about?
Back them up.
Twice.
Yes, twice is the least you can do.

Couple of technical points:

Most people just use USB drives to copy things, or to store data for a short time. Myself, I never had a single data corruption issue with either. That doesn't prove the following, obvious statement wrong:

both USB drives and SD&co cards are not suitable for long term storage (= more than a couple of years).
Heck - they've only been around for a dozen years! That makes them young, untested technology.
(It might surprise you, but proper data centres often use tape for some backups. It works. It's proven. :beer:).

As for balancing cost/speed/quality in your buying process, I am sure you'll find help further down in this thread.

Another reason to avoid cheap USB drives from the Ebays and East: as of 2014 anything USB-related is less than trusted . In theory, your USB drive is well designed to introduce spy&snoop&malware to your computer: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/ Oh, and there's nothing you can do about it, by the way... :eek:
This may concern your IT admin more than yourself, but just to let you know... :cool:

And if you're really serious about your data - here's a good golden backup rules run-down: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheComputerBackupRuleOfThree.aspx :coffee:

kwikbreaks

jeff_travis wrote: »

As a rough guide, aim to pay 50p per GB

I think you are a bit out of date on pricing. I bought a 32GB Sandisk Ultra microsdhc uhs-1 and adapter from a UK seller on eBay for £7.49 last week. There were some cheaper but I had a short receipt window and picked a seller with high feedback and first class post.

[Deleted User]

I've got a couple of Verbatim, NANO USB OTG drives.

They're brilliant for extending the storage on my Hudl 2, and for transferring stuff between it and my PC.

debitcardmayhem

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I think you are a bit out of date on pricing. I bought a 32GB Sandisk Ultra microsdhc uhs-1 and adapter from a UK seller on eBay for £7.49 last week. There were some cheaper but I had a short receipt window and picked a seller with high feedback and first class post.

Well that 50p post was from 2013 :eek:

spud17

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Well that 50p post was from 2013 :eek:

#17, raising post numbers before spamming??? :beer:

kwikbreaks

Blast - fooled through not looking at the dates.