If you read through enough A-Data memory card customer reviews on Newegg.com, you will see a pretty high number of reviewers reporting that their A-Data cards died on them. I would not trust my valuable, never be able to duplicate them again images to an A-Data flash card.
lousygolfer said: If you read through enough A-Data memory card customer reviews on Newegg.com, you will see a pretty high number of reviewers reporting that their A-Data cards died on them. I would not trust my valuable, never be able to duplicate them again images to an A-Data flash card.Define high. On a model with 67 reviewes, 7% are one star. Patriot 12% one star, SanDisk 14% one star. If you're talking sheer number, that would be due to MORE people buying the A-Data because of it's lower pocket burn.
Hence, I see a proportionate number of negative reviews for practically every card on there, except those that are so cost prohibitive, not many buy them; and those that do, must justify the steep price tag, lol. Same on Amazon where I just picked up this 16GB of A-Data for 30.99 and 2 day shipping for a pana lumix ZS3. At least there's a great deal more 4 and 5 star and at least they offer lifetime warranty and reply to many posts with RMA instructions.
I hope to god I don't lose some precious video or photos, but I think with these things, you're taking a gamble whether it's Transcend, SanDisk, Kingston, A-Data, or RiData... it's the way the cookie crumbles.
Kingston flash cards seem to have a much lower failure rate than most other brands.
However, you need to read the 1/5 reviews - some of them are by people who had compatibility problems or were complaining about slower speeds than the rated classes. Most of the 1/5 reviews I have read of A-data cards (and I am talking about for at least 15-20 different flash memory cards, not just an isolated model) are complaining about the drive failing outright.
Absolutely I will never buy adata no matter the price. I have 2 Adata cards here, 8GB and 4GB. They both literally fell apart. Contacted Adata, they immediately told me physical *abuse* is not covered under warranty.
I know how to handle an SD card, I have an old 256MB Sandisk card from years ago and it's still rock solid. Transcend is also very sold.
Maybe Adata has improved their build quality now, I wouldn't know, but after being accused of physically abusing their cards, never again.
lousygolfer said: Kingston flash cards seem to have a much lower failure rate than most other brands.
However, you need to read the 1/5 reviews - some of them are by people who had compatibility problems or were complaining about slower speeds than the rated classes. Most of the 1/5 reviews I have read of A-data cards (and I am talking about for at least 15-20 different flash memory cards, not just an isolated model) are complaining about the drive failing outright.
I did. Are you suggesting that there's not a similar correlation in one star reviews of other card brands?
Point, a certain number of these cards of f--ked no matter the brand. Your evidence that A-Data has a larger failure rate than the rest is conclusory at best. But what ever makes you feel better about spending more
1lossir said: Here we go again with another pissing match about good/bad experiences with a specific brand of product. This is getting really old, folks.
How about we actually comment on the DEAL in the Hot Deals thread and not go around showing each other who's got a better comeback?
Whether or not the product is a quality product is a pretty large consideration when determining whether a deal is actually a good deal. A turd that retails for $50 that goes on sale for $0.99 is still a turd. Do you buy stuff just because it's cheap? You don't care at all about the product itself only the % off MSRP?
1niceguy
Member
posted: Nov. 1, 2009 @ 9:27p
A-Data is crap. I have two 16gb Class 6 "Turbo" A-Data cards that caused my digital cameras to slow to a crawl. Soon as I put them in the cameras slowed to 10+ second start up times, and some photos and videos were not being saved. Found a cheap HP 4gb for $12 and it worked fine.
Flash Memory Toolkit reported the cards as having 4 mbps write and 11 mbps read. That makes them Class 4, not Class 6. The $12 4gb HP reported 6 mbps write and 16 mbps read despite being labeled a Class 4.
You guys can buy what you like, but anything A-Data I'll be marking as a poor deal.
hakujin said: lousygolfer said: Kingston flash cards seem to have a much lower failure rate than most other brands.
However, you need to read the 1/5 reviews - some of them are by people who had compatibility problems or were complaining about slower speeds than the rated classes. Most of the 1/5 reviews I have read of A-data cards (and I am talking about for at least 15-20 different flash memory cards, not just an isolated model) are complaining about the drive failing outright.
I did. Are you suggesting that there's not a similar correlation in one star reviews of other card brands?
Point, a certain number of these cards of f--ked no matter the brand. Your evidence that A-Data has a larger failure rate than the rest is conclusory at best. But what ever makes you feel better about spending more
You can find one-star reviews for nearly every card on the market and probably every brand has a model of card or maybe two that has a lot of duds. But across their whole lineup of SD/SDHC cards, A-Data has so many people writing reviews about a) how their A-Data card died; and b) how A-Data did not make things right for them, that I personally am satisfied, without needing to compute specific failure rate statistics, that my observations are not merely unsupported conclusions, as you claim, but rather that A-Data is a brand to avoid. But hey, if you feel it is worth it to save $2 and risk once-in-a-lifetime photos, well, I guess that makes you a smarter shopper than me, doesn't it?
johnrweb
Member
posted: Nov. 2, 2009 @ 10:37a
For those recommending transcend card, I hope you'll have better luck than I did. I bought an 8GB Class 6 Transcend a few weeks ago. Went on vacation and took a bunch of video with my ZS3. The camera started giving reading errors and the whole thing became unreadable. On restart, the camera asked if I wanted to reformat the card. I finally had to reformat because I need to at least get some videos from my vacation. The second time around, the camera told me that my card was unable to write fast enough for the video mode and wouldn't take either still or video from that point. Guess its time to reformat the Transcend again. I have an 8GB Transcend CF in my Canon DSLR and it has been great. So its either bad luck or or a bad design.
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