Lexar Media 256 MB Secure Digital Card (Retail Package) Reviews

• How many pictures will it store?

  
  By A25HBO5V8S8SEA on 2004-11-05
  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 Lexar Media 256MB Secure Digital Card, like most 256MB cards, will store on average 284 pictures when used with a 2 megapixel camera, 213 images when used with a 3 megapixel camera, 128 pictures when used with a 4 megapixel camera, 102 images when used with a 5 megapixel camera, and 80 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.
  
  

• Fast read and write performance, great sd memory.

  
  By on 2003-06-03
  I have experienced with many of the sd memory cards and let me tell you from the best to the worst... Lexar, Simpletech and Panasonic sd cards are the top quality cards from Japan. Read and write speed is amazing(20x or 3Mb/s write and 30x or 5Mb/s read). Sandisk, Viking and PNY are the worst, write at 3x or 500Kb/s. Sandisk and PNY have read speed of 8x or 1.2Mb/s only, Viking is good at read speed(30x or 5Mb/s). Many stores carries the Sandisk because they cheap and of poor performance and they are mainly made in Taiwan or China. PNY can be found only in a few stores like Bestbuy, CompUSA and CircuitCity and they are made in Taiwan too. The Lexar sd card, in my opinion is the fastest right now. If you have a USB 2 card reader connected to a USB 2 port on a PC, just copy a 100MB folder and time it. You will be amazed with the write speed. Look for the High Performance logo on the packaging and sometimes they even advertise the speed like 12x, 24x or 32x. I kind of gambled when I bought from Amazon because there is no picture but the low price and outstanding service is too tempting to let go.
  
  

• Rock solid, great for Pocket PCs

  
  By A5JLAU2ARJ0BO on 2003-02-12
  Lexar makes some of the best flash memory on this planet. I've owned CompactFlash and Secure Digital cards from Lexar, Sandisk as well as generics from CompUSA. By far Lexar's offerings are the most reliable, giving me 100% error-free performance. Lexar cards also appear to be faster and more power-efficient, although I haven't done any rigorous testing, just experience. (CompUSA's are the worst -- I actually lost data on their 128MB CF card!) I'm a Pocket PC freak and I load my flash memory with tons of multimedia content, so reliability and speed are important to me.

  In the past Lexar cards were a bit pricier than some other brands, but recently Lexar has become very competitive and many of their products are actually among the cheapest. Great quality + great value = totally recommended.

  Note: You should still always back up your data regularly. On the Pocket PC, use the back-up function in ActiveSync. On any device, just copy the entire content of the card to a folder in your Windows Explorer.
  
  

• The best 256MG SD card in the marker

  
  By AX992WXG50MIK on 2003-06-06
  I have tried many brands of SD cards (Lexar, Vicking, Sandisk, etc) in my palm TT, and by far Lexar makes the most reliable memory cards on the market. The are faster than any other brand. Sandisk cards are the cheapest in the market, and I bought one 256MG, and in the card only work a couple of hours and I lost all my data. Vicking is much better than Sandisk, but it doesnt have the speed of the Lexar cards. The only downside of lexar is price, but is not much, and for me is worth it. Go with Lexar, you wont regret it.
  
  

• Lexar may be a Sandisk

  
  By on 2003-06-19
  I agree with all reviews stating that Lexar is one of the best performers (or at least used to be). Apparently, Lexar cards are rebranded cards from Panasonic, Toshiba and ... Sandisk. So, I rated the item with only three stars for buyers to be aware of the fact that they may still get a Sandisk SD rebranded as Lexar SD. The OEM can, for example, be seen in the card info menu in Palm TT.
  
  
• Lexar Media 256mb Secure Digital
  By on 2003-05-19
  I recently got a Minolta F100 camera as a gift from my Employer. It came with a 16mb Toshiba SD memory card. I quickly realized that small memory card was not going to cut it. Looking around the web I found the Lexar Media 256mb on sale here at Amazon and purchased the card. The card has been great and really allows one to capture tons of pictures without the need of a computer to offload. I can store 255 images at 2272x1704 with standard compression. Enough for even the most ambitious vacation plans.

  An amazing product at a great price! It's hard to believe a postage size card can hold 256mb of data. I look forward to cost effective 512mb and 1024mb cards in the future. One thing I know for sure is it will be a Lexar Media product.
  
  

• Have an Axim? This card might not work for you.
  By A2K3ZVS9EASR6A on 2003-06-27
  I purchased a Lexar 256mb SD card several weeks ago. It worked great for a few days, and then died. The card was full of directories all named ".", and it could not be reformatted.

  As it turns out, Lexar sources most of their cards from SanDisk, and the controller in those cards is not currently compatible with the Dell Axim. If your card was made in China or Taiwan, it will most likely only work for a week or two before corrupting. If you get a card that was made in Japan, you'll be OK.

  Lexar was very good about taking my bad card back, and I'm happy now that I have a Japanese card. It's rock solid and has no problems.
  
  

• Great for picture storage with the Kodak camera's
  By on 2003-04-24
  Purchased 2 of these recently and haven't had a problem. Makes it very easy to travel and take nearly 600 high resolution pics (3 MP).
  
  
• Words of warning
  By A2D20D1AIXY2LY on 2003-06-20
  Not all Lexar 256mb SD cards are from Japan. The Japanese cards are fine, they work well and do exactly what it says on the tin. However if you are looking for Japanese-made SD cards, some Lexar 256mb's say "Made in Japan" on the packaging yet state "China" on the card itself. The Chinese cards look (and work) in much the same way as Sandisk cards - very slowly. In fact, the Chinese cards don't work at all in my Dell Axim X5 PDA....
  
  
• Read-only lock problem
  By AL3SXO5J1FP6K on 2004-02-09
  I had the same problem as one of the other reviewers below: The read-only lock on the card I received also stuck out too far. Whenever I inserted the card in my Kodak dx6490 camera the lock was pushed back, and I got an error message saying that the card was protected. I tried to make the lock stick to the unlock position in every imaginable way, and finally reaching a point of desperation, I pushed the lock to the unlocked position and broke it off. That didn't work: The card still appears to be locked, and is entirely useless.

  This situation got me stuck in Belize with nothing but the small internal memory of my camera, and I had to buy a couple of very overpriced 32MB cards while I was there.

  I can't recommend buying this product at all.
  
  

• A good product
  By A17MRB2O4NTF3 on 2003-09-18
  I bought this card a month ago for my new Kodak DX6340. I have not had any problem with the card and the camera. I chose Lexar over other brands because of its low price and good experience with Lexar 256MB JumpDrive 2.0. My card came from J&R (through amazon.com) and has "Made in Japan" on the back of card.
  
  
• Go with another brand
  By A22KXQLBC1T969 on 2004-02-20
  While the lexar works fine, the write protect slider tends to become loose, and can cause you to be unable to write. While this can be fixed with a little tape, it is likely better just to get another brand.
  
  
• Works well; hoped it would be faster
  By A2GNKBLTB4KS19 on 2003-08-05
  I'm fairly happy with the Lexar 256 MB SD card. It works well in my 4 megapixel camera. I was hoping it would be faster than the 128 MB SimpleTech card I already had. It's not. Both seem dreadfully slow to record pictures and to read them back with unloading. My 3 MP camera is probably 2-3 times faster with its Compact Flash memory card.
  
  
• Working Good for Me
  By A149C701MLJDJC on 2004-11-15
  First of all... the price and quality are superb.
  
  I have owned mine for about nine months now enduring vacations in Austria and Mexico City. I have had absolutely no problems with my photos (regardless of the countless times I've erased single/all photos as well as formatted the card).
  
  You will be pleased with this SD card.
  
  
• Pretty good deal...except....
  By A2FCJG800NCVOF on 2003-05-26
  It's definately a great price for the 256mb, but the only complaint that I have about it is that it only reads 243.7 mb as the total mem available on the card. The performance so far is excellent. It is working well in my Palm Zire 71.
  
  
• Stopped working after 4 days
  By A2KL7BCSW9JMK2 on 2004-03-03
  After a couple of days of it working fine, it just crapped out. I was uploading songs to it when I got an error message. It wouldn't detect it when I tried to format it and did not detect it in the G drive. So I'm getting it replaced and hopefully the next one will be better. I guess the previous poster was right, because it was made in Taiwan, not Japan. So I don't know, maybe the Japanese ones are fine, but I'd avoid the Taiwan ones. Which is what Amazon shipped me...
  
  
• If you've got a Dell...
  By AJW22IS1FZ28H on 2003-07-05
  Let me add my voice to those who've already spoken about the problem Dell Axims have with Lexar SD cards. My Dell asked me if I wanted to format the card to make it readable. I'll never use that card again.
  
  
• cyclic redundancy error
  By ASSOC1N3L9KEU on 2003-07-09
  The card I got was defective. I keep getting this "cyclic redundancy error" when I try transferring files to the card. Even when I don't get this error, sometimes my IPAQ 2215 has problems reading the datafiles that were supposedly transferred OK.
  
  
• read only lock problem
  By AHU058K1O2ZVB on 2004-01-12
  The card I received had a read-only lock switch that stuck out too far. Any time I inserted into my Palm Tungsten E or a separate SD reader it would push the switch to lock, preventing write access. The card does not resemble the photo. Mine was blue plastic with a yellow lock switch, not black on black as pictured. If they are farming out manufacturing then the quality control is slipping, since this should have been noticed.
  
  
• Treo 600 Essential
  By A2XFI3651A0D7V on 2004-08-28
  I purchased this card for use in my Treo 600. It has functioned perfectly, allowing me to save various types of programs and files for use in my Treo. I have not had any problems with the lock feature, as other users have reported. I recommend this card to anyone who needs storage space in compact form.
  
  
• AFter 2 years and still counting
  By A1LIDFYOXPYTUB on 2005-10-30
  Bought this in Amazon in 2003 and have just written a review now (2005).
  Been using this with my Palm PDA and in some instances as a flash drive with an adaptor that I bought.
  After 2 years of full service, it has not given me any problems, no errors and still doing its service now as my flash drive (SD+usb reader).
  A Highly recommended product.
  How I wish the present price was the price when I got it in 2003. :)
  
  
• No Problems
  By A1W5WC4PQF0H3F on 2003-09-12
  We have been using this with our digital camera and have yet to run out of memory after a honeymoon and a vacation. Had no problems with it to date and have no negative experiences using this.
  
  
• Worked in my Mustek DV4000
  By AELK0E5DK7LIZ on 2004-03-17
  No problems yet. I purchased memory for my Mustek DV4000 and memory worked fine.
  
  
• Very Fast and reliable
  By AB7OXIP8J39BG on 2004-02-06
  I bought this memory card to use it with my digital camera but then I bought a memory card reader and I've been using it to store music and videos, too.

  The memory has been very fast and reliable and I have never taken as many pictures to full 256Mb. But for the media, sometimes I found 256Mb to be insufficient. Sometimes I think a 512Mb card would have been better for my needs.

  There's a similar SD/MMC model which is packed with a portable reader (key chain) and you should take a look at it because it seems very tempting.
  
  

• Pretty good deal...except....
  By A2FCJG800NCVOF on 2003-05-26
  It's definately a great price for the 256mb, but the only complaint that I have about it is that it only reads 243.7 mb as the total mem available on the card. The performance so far is excellent. It is working well in my Palm Zire 71.
  
  
• not found problem yet
  By AFC00BNZAO66B on 2004-12-06
  it works find in my MPX200 cell phone and R707 camera. The speed seems right for usb2.0. never had a problem since I bought it in Feb. 2004.
  
  
• Lexar rock solid as always
  By AZLNDUK124ZXX on 2005-02-11
  i have a 128 Mb SD card and went with lexar based on prior experience and it was worth it this card is made in taiwan and now comes in a small holder for the card
  
  highly recomnded
  
  
• Sticking with Lexar 256MB SD cards
  By A3V3BAKCKVVMHD on 2003-07-23
  I purchased the Lexar 256MB SD card for my Palm Tungsten T and loaded it with a playlist of over 100 songs to carry on a trip (at least 5 hrs of music). Using the RealOne software (bundled with the Palm MP3 Audio Kit) all the tracks easily transferred from my PC to the Lexar SD card.

  No additional work, such as formatting, was required before loading the card. I didn�t encounter any problems during the transfer nor when deleting or adding individual songs. Also, my card is from China (as stamped on back) and it doesn�t appear to be defective in any way. It arrived in a factory sealed plastic casing that required scissors to remove the SD card and the UPC code. The Lexar card was reasonably priced, ... I plan to purchase another Lexar 256MB SD card for creating documents, spreadsheets, etc on my Palm.
  
  

• The slide lock key is too weak
  By A739GNQ3REECJ on 2004-05-16
  I bought it last april and i didnt realize that slide lock key was too weak, and now I try to write data but a message is about the data is secure (locked).
  
  
• Lexar lock breaks after a few uses.
  By A11Q3TYC76J039 on 2008-01-04
  I have had the card for two weeks and no matter what position the card lock is in it won't unlock. So I cannot remove the old pictures. I bought a defective one. Never had problems with Lexar before, I think the quality control on this model has been poor.
  
  

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