PNY P-SD2GB-FS Optima 2GB Secure Digital Class 4 Flash Memory Card Reviews

• Polaroid Version is Compatible with Nintendo Wii

  
  By A2B2O2S9SW0K19 on 2006-11-25
  I picked up the Polaroid variant of this memory card as a doorbuster deal from Circuit City on Black Friday for about the same price you can find it here on Amazon. The model number on it is P-2D2G-RF3/POL. Therefore, I'm sure it's the same card with a Polaroid label. It says made by PNY on it. I bought it for use in the Nintendo Wii and I can verify that it is compatible. I've copied pictures to it from my PC and then viewed them on the Wii.
  
  This is my first experience with Secure Digital as my camera uses CompactFlash. Therefore, I thought I would benchmark it for comparison. Using a cheap, generic USB 2.0 card reader, I copied a file containing 231MB of digital photos in JPEG format from my PC to the SD card. Write Speed is 2.89 MB/sec (231MB/80sec). I then renamed the file and copied it back to the PC. Read speed is 4.62MB/sec (231MB/50sec). For comparison, using the same card reader and the same testing method, my 1GB Sandisk Ultra II CompactFlash card showed a write speed of 1.67 MB/sec and a read speed of 2.78 MB/sec.
  
  I don't really know how to rate this item as I have no experience with any other SecureDigital Memory. However, it works and it's much faster than my CompactFlash. Therefore, I'll give it a 4/5.
  
  

• Don't Buy This.

  
  By A1TM7HLAYOVWNA on 2006-12-15
  Please don't be fooled by it's inexpensiveness. I am a victim of it. I already bought this card and within 2 weeks I started getting read and write errors. I formatted the card and it now has 2 MB of bad sectors. Unlike the other reviewer I did had 2 GB to begin with. But I think it is bad quality product and thats why it is dearth cheap. It is not at all reliable. Now I am contacting their customerservice to replace this card for me.
  
  

• Bad product!!!

  
  By A2BKJTD3XRHNI8 on 2006-11-27
  I bought this SD card from J&R Music last week. I thought I would get the authentic card from PNY so I just used the card with my camera and threw the package away. A couple days later, I took the card out to put all the picture in my PC and realized by that time, the card is only 1GB. I contacted the customer service department and they said they won't deal with me unless I have the original package (which I don't anymore). They adviced me to contact the PNY store. So I did a little research and found that the exact same card is from Toshiba (Model:SD-MO2G) and J&R or whoever their suppliers are just put a PNY label on it to sell it as a PNY. If you don't believe me, just type Toshiba SD-MO2G on Google and the picture is exactly the same except for the little lable. I really don't care if the card is made by Toshiba or PNY as long as it is 2GB, but it isn't. And that would make it really tough to recover your loss from any party (PNY, Toshiba, or J&R). I already contacted my credit card company for a dispute. Little advice for everyone, STAY AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR CARD AND J&R STORE and also check the card validity with your computer as soon as you get the item.
  
  

• 1 GB not 2

  
  By A23TGVIVX72XDL on 2006-12-02
  The previous post is correct about it being only a 1 gig SD card. Total BS.
  
  

• Practical Choice for Everyday Use

  
  By AMSJ6CUYXA4OO on 2007-01-10
  The card works as advertised, which doesn't include it's speed. It's not a fast card. But for general everyday use, you can't beat the price. For more demanding photography, I would recommend a faster card.
  
  
• Not very happy with this product
  By A3RZ4O6AVJAJIR on 2007-01-06
  I am not a tech person, but I am also not completely useless. I have three cards I use for my palm pilot and two digital cameras. I have been very unhappy with this product. The other two cards are not PNY. This card seems to work fine in the camera and palm pilot, but will not work when I plug it into the SD slot in either of our laptops. It just locks up the computers for a while then asks if the card should be formated. Clicking "yes" or "no" does not help. I get a message that it cannot be formated. I am sure it is the card since the same thing happens on different computers. Like another reviewer, I, unfortunately, threw the packaging away because it appeared to work in the camera. I even tried to have the camera format it. It just can't be read by the computers. None of the other cards have this problem. I can't return it and it certainly isn't working properly. I would recommend buying a different brand.
  
  ** I am updating this review. I contacted PNY and after several weeks of negotiating and going through different checks they asked me to do, they replaced this card with one that works great. It could have been easier, but at this point, I would change my rating to three stars because they stood by their product. I would not rate it higher because of the hassel and failure to work.
  
  
• AVOID THIS SD CARD AT ALL COSTS - THIS IS NOT A GOOD DEAL!
  By A1FZDNX93LOW0U on 2007-07-09
  I bought this SD Card on sale thinking I'd just saved a couple bucks, but the very first time I used it, it crashed my computer and broke my camera. After taking the pics I wanted, I inserted it into my computer, which instantly started acting strange - slowing down and not recognizing that there was a card inserted. So I tried to restart my computer and it wouldn't restart. I had to take it in to get it fixed, costing me $100 for the technician to tell me it was the SD card. Also, the camera I used it in, a Nikon D80 that I just bought 5 months ago, is now being shipped back to the manufacturer for repair - after using this card, the display monitor wouldn't turn on and the camera wouldn't record any pictures on any of my other SD cards. Next time, I'll spend a little extra money to buy something of quality, especially when using it with my expensive equipment.
  
  
• works great!
  By A3OWNSO8YU4F3Y on 2007-01-09
  all i can say is this card works great in my treo 650. i recommend it to anyone!
  
  
• Plenty with PNY 2.0GB
  By A3YWKDKT6UAMY on 2007-02-26
  This PNY 2.0GB card has proven to be plenty as a digital camera card. We purchased the 2 gig card for my wife's Canon Powershot S-900 "Elph" to replace smaller memory cards.
  
  Although 1GB cards worked adequately with the "Elph" we noticed, early on, that its 10.0 mega pixels quickly filled up the photo card. The 2.0GB holds many more photos (over 400 shots and counting) than the 1GB. At half the price of other brands, the PNY is proving to be very satisfactory (we purchased two 2.0s at once).
  
  We happily recommend the PNY 2.0GB photo card for your photos. It makes a great gift candidate. Get yours soon!
  
  
  
• Right size - okay price
  By A2XSGH4PUZ9V8M on 2007-02-16
  Just the right size for my needs and easy to carry around. Price is okay. I'm starting to see some less expensive since I've bought mine. Would I buy another one from PNY? Yes, especially if it was 4 - 8 gigs!
  
  
  
• Little use for this usb
  By A2JQSTZSSD361Q on 2007-05-06
  This product is advertised as compatible for palm products and when I plugged it into the device, it wasn't even recognized. So don't buy a 2gb memory card for a Palm Tungsten, it won't work.
  
  
• PNY sd card
  By A1F4CHSR8BZ2IV on 2007-05-09
  This product does everything as advertised @ a great price. My camera picked it up immediately & it gave me all the storage capacity I could ever need.
  
  
• Very useful piece of equipment
  By A38O7F7KOUU5MV on 2007-05-07
  I was looking for flash memory that not only could I use in my phone, but also use as a very portable storage medium for my laptop. This 2GB PNY SD Secure Digital flash memory card provided the perfect solution to my cell phone storage needs. I bought two so I could take advantage of Amazon's super savings on shipping. By the way, I'm also a storage medium hog for various reasons ;)
  
  
• They do not say the truth
  By A1IE84RZVLUKOP on 2007-05-14
  when I tried to buy this item, Amazon site said a delivery time. But It was not availible on time, then It still on USPS and I still without my purchase........
  
  
• Great card Great price
  By A5P81HM58GY4G on 2007-05-16
  I have used it in my Casio 8 meg pix. camera and in my computer and the card has been flawless. It is a full 2G card.
  
  
• Husband likes it
  By A2R6688OH0M12T on 2007-06-22
  This was part of a fathers day gift for hubby. He likes it as it has super sized storage and I liked the price. Can't go wrong.
  
  
• Awesome product!
  By A2CWWRAB3GJU1Y on 2007-07-15
  I purchased this card for my new HP camera and it works perfectly. I tried one of my Sandisk cards in the camera and it needed to be formatted before the camera would read it. Not true with the PNY card. As soon as I put it in the camera the card was recognized and will now hold over 1,000 pictures!
  
  Great price on a great memory card.
  
  
• Read and write errors!!! Avoid!
  By A3F3R0Z2G135JZ on 2007-08-14
  I own it for 1 week and already I need to replace it. I get read and write errors causing device to fail. Get anything but PNY.
  
  
• excellent
  By A1KUZ17JXYKS87 on 2007-04-11
  people said this is bad brand and bad quality i defeinetly did not think so, great memory space for a very cheap price , trano my transfers easily to my pc without errors
  
  
• SD Flash card
  By ANZ55687T2UOL on 2007-05-07
  Outstanding product at an outstanding price. I've searched the internet for the best prices on memory cards for my digital camera and have not found a site less expensive than Amazon. I got a 2GB card for $19! You can't beat that! Trust me, this is a good deal.
  
  
• It was great while it lasted
  By A29JYIFHPEWK4D on 2007-07-03
  I bought this card and a Magellan Explorist XL GPS from Amazon back in March or April. I plugged it in and it worked great ... until the other day when my GPS wouldn't start. I removed this card and the GPS started just fine.
  
  Since there is (apparently) no software in the GPS to format the card, I decided to put it in my camera which does have format capability. The camera simply rejected the card as unusable.
  
  Fortunately, I have a backup of all my map files and can hopefully restore them when I get a real card. I'm just glad I wasn't using it in my camera while on vacation.
  
  Now I'm worried about my camera card which is also a PNY but the 1 GB version.
  
  I think I'm going SD card shopping tomorrow.
  
  
• It's good..
  By A1D00BJ867AXBX on 2007-08-13
  The price unfortunetly was not on sale .. but anyway it was good .. i like so Thank you
  
  
• Thanks for a great product
  By AD9B47S8670LP on 2007-09-29
  I purchased the item and it turned out to be a gift for a good friend who was delighted to receive it.
  
  
• Had no problems with it.
  By ADDH062VYSBE9 on 2007-12-24
  We used this digital card in a photo/video frame for my parents and it worked fine. Had no problems with it.
  
  
• Trusty
  By A9FFK3OUIEQOD on 2007-12-25
  I bought this and it really works!! The lock switch went on a few too many times, then I tore that off!!! :((( Now my computer cannot move/ write files on the card!! **** Be watchfull!! My camera (Cannon Powershot A-520) never told me that the card was locked, and when I went to download the pictures to my laptop the pictures DIDN'T appear!!
  
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