Lexar Media 1 GB Secure Digital Memory Card (SD1GB-231) (Retail Package) Reviews

• Fast on read, slow on write

  
  By A601HHZF3B6OY on 2004-10-07
  I returned this one the day I got it from Amazon. It was fairly fast when reading from the card, but writing was very slow. Although my Palm T3 showed the card to be from unknown manufacture, its performance numbers suggested it was likely made by Toshiba (Lexar resells other people's products). While Toshiba SDs are reliable, they are known to be slow on write. And that was exactly what I saw. If you use the card mainly for MP3 or carrying Palm/PPC data, go for it. If you need to frequently write to the card (such as doing Palm/PPC backups, or using in a digital camera), go get one made by SanDisk (faster) or Panasonic (fastest, but very expensive), or specially marked high speed SDs.
  
  

• Hoped for a bargain, got a dud

  
  By A3RJWHFRUA8V9O on 2004-11-19
  I had high hopes for this bargain-priced 1GB SD card, which I purchased to use w/ my flash-based MP3 player. Unfortunately, the card doesn't work properly. Once I write the music files to the card (a VERY slow process, taking about 10 minutes to write the entire card, given the turtle-like write speeds), my player doesn't see about half of the tracks/albums. I've tried emptying and rewriting the card multiple times, as well pulling all of the tracks out of their album directories and writing them to a single, top-level directory, all for naught. I can't discern any rhyme or reason as to what it recognizes and what it doesn't, which changes each time I rewrite the files. I also have twice run into mysterious errors ("Cannot create file or directory") while trying to write to the empty card. I'm stymied, and will be returning the card.
  
  

• Fast enough for my SD300's VGA 30fps video mode

  
  By A9IXR06EBF2PN on 2004-12-16
  One of my reason for getting a Canon SD300 digicam is its great video capability - it's capable of shooting 640x480 at 30 fps until the memory card is full. Prior to this card, I had 4 Sandisk 256MB SD cards, and 3 of which have problem in this video mode (blinking red "!" mark with skipping frames).
  
  I was concerned about this card's speed performance after reading some of the reviews, but now I'm glad to say that it works well on my SD300. It is able to handle 640x480x30fps with no dropped frames on my camera. I've shot up to 3 minutes, creating a 350MB+ AVI file, with no problem. And it's very inexpensive to boot. I didn't need the 32x cards which costs about 30% more.
  
  With that said, you should note that I have the new Canon SD300, which was released only a month ago and is a fast camera in general. Your mileage may vary based on the camera you have and its speed when streaming video from internal buffer to memory card.
  
  

• Terrible quality. Doesn't work in all SD devices

  
  By A3N0QZ0VD5JAOZ on 2005-01-15
  Lexar cards don't work in Panasonic SD Audio devices. I couldn't understand why it wouldn't work since SD is supposed to be pretty standard. I called Panasonic and they said that Lexar and Kodak cards are so low in quality and slow to write that they won't work with the the SD Audio format.
  
  No problems using other brands like Sandisk, Panasonic, Kingmax, etc.
  
  

• Never work properly

  
  By A2PPWXAT9N1T0X on 2005-08-19
  I bought this SD card on April 11. Unfortunately, the card doesn't work properly, in fact, my camera and my computer never detect it.
  
  Also, I recived a different card, it didn't like the picture on this page. I think I was swindled.
  
  Well, I had to buy another SD card.
  
  
• No, not this one
  By A1FR68QH6Z4YZM on 2006-01-05
  This is not the one you want to get. You want the Lexar 1 GB 32X SD card. They look the same, except for the "32X" designation.
  
  
• FAST WRITE SPEED--5.5MB/sec
  By A3JA2VHHFYNG9T on 2004-12-05
  I have found this card to write consistently at just about 5.5MB/sec (sometimes faster--6MB/sec), which, coincidentally, is higher than the minimum write speed of Lexar's 32X high speed 1GB SD card. (There are rumors that virtually all of Lexar's "normal speed" SD cards are actually identical to the 32X cards, but without the price markup.) 5.5MB/sec is entirely adequate for my needs and faster than I expected; in fact, it is the fastest SD card I have used so far.
  
  Write speed faster than: Sandisk 256MB, Kingston 128MB, Kingston 256MB, Viking 128MB, Viking 256MB, SimpleTech 512MB. Of these, the second fastest was the SimpleTech at 5.3MB/sec, followed by the Sandisk at 2.7MB/sec. All of the Vikings and Kingstons I have tested write at about 1.5MB/sec.
  
  This is the only 1GB SD card I have tested (update: I have two cards now, both more or less identical).
  
  I have run into no errors after using the cards in multiple devices for four months, and use one frequently to record 640X480 MPEG4 video w/sound in my Kodak still camera. The videos have turned out fine and the longest one I made was about 900MB in size. Filling up the card has not been an issue.
  
  One of the other reviewers commented that the card might have been OEM'ed by Toshiba (which tend to be slow at writing); the card I have doesn't appear to be a Toshiba because it was made in the USA (whereas most of the Toshibas are made in Taiwan or Japan) and the plastic exterior is physically different from those of Toshiba cards I have seen.
  
  Based on my own experience using the card, I would recommend it, but given the other reviewers' experiences and the feedback numbers I may just have gotten lucky.
  
  
• Somewhere in between
  By A15TACMUXW0ZVX on 2004-12-10
  I was able to transfer 965 MB from an internal hd on my computer through a USB 2.0 multi card reader in 4 mins. and 40 sec. That ends up roughly 3.4 MB/sec. To check data integrity, I ran a bitwise comparison between the source and target directories, which completed in an amazing 3 mins. and 11 sec. So, the read speed on this card is at least 5 MB/sec.
  
  The hd was a slave unit, don't know if that impacted on the write limit. In any case, this card is faster than most on the market, and with the rebate ended up being cheaper than all of them. Color me satisfied.
  
  
• A lame duck card
  By A3FFE2LSPNRIVZ on 2005-02-09
  I purchased the 1gb Lexar card, and 5 hours after I started using it, I've got corrupted data that no amount of formating or data deletion will remedy. Given that I had already disceted the box into small pieces to send in for mail in rebates, I contacted Lexar and sent it to them on a Warrenty claim [cheaper then driving back to the retail location I purchased it at anyway].
  
  I got it back yesterday, and it was suffering the same problem I sent it in for in the first place!
  
  Their solution, they pay for the return shipping of card #2, and swap it out for two 512mb cards.
  
  Not happy. But at least they are somewhat responsive to fixing the problem.
  
  
• So far so good!
  By AO21FYANWN5GV on 2005-01-18
  It's working great with my Navman iCN 510 GPS (which btw is an incredible GPS system!) No problem, fast access and fast download of the maps. Read some people taking forever to download maps, so was surprised to find that it took fraction of the time for me. Don't know if it was the card or the PC which determines the speed, but it took me about 45 minutes to download about 600MB worth of map onto my Lexar.
  
  
• Great Card at a Bargain Price
  By A3GSF0ASA7AKFY on 2005-06-15
  [...] I have two of these memory cards now, and I just love their performance. I use the cards for my Panasonic digital camera, and I have filled one card with over 700 pictures with absolutely no problems whatsoever. I haven't experienced any of the speed problems that other reviewers say they have, and the claim that the card is made by Toshiba is completely factless and ridiculous. There is no better value for the money on the market right now, and reading and writing on this card for me has been very fast.
  
  
• Low Price, fast write speed
  By A14E5J8TCT3H9I on 2005-08-10
  Lots of storage. One card for a week of fishing photos! So much storage that I shoot at max res (5 megapixels) with no backup disk or hard drive data dump. I loved the price!
  
  
• be careful of this one
  By A1USUJJ6XZR3QK on 2006-03-21
  A friend gave me this card for free, when I travled to Arizona. I use this card in my Dell X51V.
  
  From time to time, this card can't be recoginize by the PDA. I have to pull it out and re-insert it in, and reset my PDA.
  Then oneday, my GPS software showed "Map data corrupted". All the data in the card was wiped out, and the card's space reduced to around 300M, have no idea where the remaining space goes to.
  
  Don't put important data on this one!!! That's my lesson.
  
  
• Perfect companion to my T3
  By A2HV1YSH5QN96R on 2005-05-24
  I'm using it for about 6 months with Palm Tungsten T3 and had no problems. It is much faster than my previous Sandisk 256 Mb. Unlike other users I did not experince any speed problem for both reading and writing and recommend it.
  
  
• Perfect
  By A2WY1S7HYT46VN on 2005-03-22
  I read other reviews of this SD card and they werent to great. I was planning on buying the Sandisk card, but every store is sold out so I went with this. Its perfect! Nothing has gone wrong yet. Im using it in a Kodak 6.1 mp camera and it works great for me. Takes no time at all to save or delete photos! Its a great card, just sorry some people are having trouble with it.
  
  
• memory card
  By AVHEXUC6VM9E2 on 2007-01-28
  Either I'm doing something wrong OR this card doesn't hold as many digital pics as advertised. The pic quality is good but I was expecting more memory for the money. Again, it's possible it's the operator and not the card!
  
  
• Cheaper and functional!
  By AQ8IGZ8GPHCO0 on 2007-01-16
  This is a very good item and is cheaper than others in the list.
  
  
• DO NOT BUY!
  By A1088TQJXZIRXR on 2007-04-24
  I had this card less than a week for my new digital camera. It lost about 50 pictures and the card could not be formatted. Basically it was worthless after 4 days. Glad I tested it before taking pictures of my daughter's birth with this piece of garbage memory stick.
  
  
• great service
  By A2ZNIOFBHZ1YS3 on 2007-01-11
  item was shipped in a timely manner and I am completely satisfied with this purchase.
  
  
• Digital Memory Card- value for your dollar!
  By AZGKDMMDN5KL1 on 2007-01-14
  Works great for far less money than other photo store cards. Thanks for helping me to save money!!
  
  
• Lexar Media 1GB Memory Card
  By AHEGSHOD48MA7 on 2007-01-18
  This card was a good replacement for the original card which came with a recent camera purchase. The 1GB memory lets you take a multitude of photos without stopping. It was a great asset to my camera purchase. I would recommend the product to anyone.
  
  
• Fast shipping
  By A1KINEELT84VIJ on 2007-01-18
  Ordered this item on 12/13 and it came within a few days. Very impressed with fast shipping time.
  
  
• Good value
  By A3CG5T7T5YGLYC on 2007-03-11
  This memory card seems to work well. I have only been using it for a month, so I can't vouch for its longevity. So far, so good. Great price.
  
  
• Lexar 1 GB Secure Digital Memory Card
  By AJ7P7DO85BNHL on 2007-05-11
  Product was as described and shipped in a timely manner. Packaging for shipment was very good. Product lives up to expectations for what it was purchased for.
  
  
• Flawless transaction
  By A1JR09QWMQ8ENU on 2007-07-13
  Product was shipped very promptly and was exactly as promised at a great price! Happy customer.
  
  

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