Transcend?

[My2Girls66]

Is Transcend a decent brand? I need a new card reader- mine doesn't read the high capacity cards. Amazon has an 8GB class 6 card with reader for $17.99. I don't really need anymore memory cards but it seems like a good deal to get the reader. If its not a decent brand I probably could get a reader alone for around the same price.

 

[GrillMouster]

I've never had a problem with a few Transcend SD cards I've used on P&S cameras and my D50. I actually just bought a Transcend 4GB class 6 SDHC card for my wife's P&S from Amazon for about $3. If all you want is a card reader, Amazon has a great Kingston high speed card reader for $15. It's among the fastest UDMA card readers, which is important for use with my CF cards.

 

[NostalgicDad]

I use their 4, 8, 16GB extreme 300x CF cards in the D300 and have no complaints at all. For the D80, I've also used their class 6 SDHC cards.......no problems at all.

 

[matthew_hull]

I just bought the same deal about an hour ago. Transcend is a reputable brand, and I have used them for years with my Canon cameras without any issues.

 

[My2Girls66]

Cool. I guess I'll order it. Can't hurt to have another 8gb's I guess.

 

[Groucho]

My Transcend 8g is pretty fast at writing, I'm quite happy with it. I recently got a great Black Friday deal on 3 Sandisk Extreme 3s which are even faster ($5 for all 3!) but the Transcend never bothered me in terms of speed.

My PQI 8g class 6 card on the other hand... painfully slow. The whole "class 4", "class 6", etc thing is pretty useless when the maximum-speed rating is pitifully slow.

 

[My2Girls66]

I got the card and reader a few days ago. Popped the card in my D80- CHA error. Oh well. Put the Sandisk back in and there was no error. Figured I got a bad one. I tried it again later and it was fine. Should I trust it?

 

[cmwade77]

Checkout ecost.com, you can almost always get an 8GB card for free, or close to it, sometimes I have even see 16 GB cards for free. I haven't had any problems with any of my SD cards, ok once I erased all of my pictures, but that was my fault in not knowing the camera yet, so really, no problems.

 

[Groucho]

I got the card and reader a few days ago. Popped the card in my D80- CHA error. Oh well. Put the Sandisk back in and there was no error. Figured I got a bad one. I tried it again later and it was fine. Should I trust it?

Is your old card an 8gb SDHC? Also, Nikon may have a firmware update, some cameras could deal with some SDHCs but a firmware update lets them deal with more. (This is the case with our Fuji PnS and I think one of my DSLRs had two generations of SDHC firmware updates.)

I forgot to mention, if anyone wants a cheap USB SDHC card reader, SuperMediaStore sells a good one for $7 shipped.

 

[My2Girls66]

The one that was in there is a 4GB- I have a Kingston 8GB that works fine. The camera is reading the 8GB Transcend now. Just hope it doesn't decide it doesn't like it while its in use!