Product Description

Transcend SDHC Karte 16GB

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #257 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Transcend
• Model: TS16GSDHC6
• Released on: 2008-07-14
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 3.20" w x 5.10" l, .11 pounds
• Memory: 16034MB
• Hard Disk: 16GB

Features

• Fully compatible with SD 2.0 Standards
• SDHC Class 6 compliant
• Compatible with all SDHC-labeled host devices (not compatible with standard SD)
• Easy to use plug-and-play operation
• Built-in Error Correcting Code (ECC) to detect and correct transfer errors

Manufacturer's Description
Transcend’s SDHC card is based on the new generation of SD cards (SD 2.0) that support the FAT32 file system format. Fully Class 6 compliant, the card features fast data transfer speeds (guaranteed minimum write speed of 6MB/s) and satisfies the high-capacity demands of today’s new SDHC devices such as high-end digital cameras or digital camcorders. You can store your entire music or picture collections, video clips, or even complete full-length high quality movies.

Transcend’s SDHC card also includes special features such as a mechanical write protection switch that keeps your important data safe from accidental deletion or over-writing. Transcend’s SDHC Class 6 series features ECC (Error Correcting Code) to automatically detect and correct errors during data transfer, preventing data corruption and missing files. Transcends manufactures all of its SDHC cards using brand name NAND Flash chips and premium quality components to ensure robust, long-life durability and performance. For further peace of mind, all SDHC cards are comprehensively tested for compatibility and reliability, and carry Transcend’s renowned Lifetime Warranty

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Customer Reviews

Transcend - highly recommended for Canon Ixus
I bought this Transcend 16GB SDHC card to use with a Canon 90-IS camera. This capacity allows me to take 3 or 4 hours of video on the camera as well as 5-600 photographs, or alternately, in excess of 10,000 photographs, depending on the `quality' settings I choose on the camera. This card is as fast as they get (Class 6) and very reliable, as all my other Transcend cards have been - some of which are now several years old and still working flawlessly.

As other reviewers have said, it is important to check in your manuals and manufacturers websites to see if your device is compatible with these High Capacity cards as they are a relatively new classification - e.g. one of my `older' cameras (four years old) can only use a standard SD card up to a maximum of 2GB and so a 16GB SDHC card is very obviously not readable by that device.

The seller I chose supplies this card in a blister pack with a card case and an SDHC card reader included for £26. I didn't strictly need the card reader, but at this price it's pretty much free and I've found it very useful for uploading documents and images from this card onto `older' PC's that can't read the High Capacity cards.

All in all, this is a high quality card with a huge capacity, which is reliable, fast and represents genuine value for money from a well-established company - and as all Transcend cards come with a lifetime warranty you can't really go wrong. My opinion would be to buy with confidence.

In reply to questions by other reviewers, a Gigabyte is a discrete amount of memory (i.e. not exactly 1,000 megabytes) and the industry `doubles up' this amount for our convenience and so as not to confuse us i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32GB. An `8GB' card's actual capacity is approx. 7.5GB and a `16GB' card's capacity is approx. 14.9 GB and so on... much like a 1761 c.c. car engine is classed as a `1.8'

I hope all this has been of some use!

Capaciously bignessly big!
16GB is quite a capacity and seems to scare some. All those images on one card and I might lose them, so I'll get 4 x 4GB cards instead. But the number of images on a 16GB card using today's 15MP DSLRs is about the same as those on yesterday's 8MP cards using 4GB cards...

My 14.6MP Samsung GX20 produces DNG files at 23MB each; if I then do RAW+JPEG, as many do, then the size is nearer 35MB per image! Also, we now have DSLRs with video! 16GB is going to look right very soon. I have lots of cards of 1GB, 2GB and 4GB capacities which I do not use for being too small. LOL! My main cards currently are 8GB and now going to 16GB.

This Transcend 16GB is very fast; very close to the Sandisk Extreme III cards but a lot cheaper. They have a lifetime warranty. I have many Transcend cards CF and SDHC and have had no issues; I also have Sandisk cards too and see no differences. This card came sealed but did not come with a plastic folder - penny pinching - so you'll need to find a spare one; at this price, though, I mustn't grumble.

Excellent BUT you need SDHC compatibility
I bought one of these to use with an Asus eee PC 901, and so far it has worked well. The read/write speed also seems good - around 15 MB/s.

However, please note that this is SDHC which is a different standard from plain SD. If you have an older card reader or a camera without SDHC compatibility, you will not be able to use this card. The Hama 35-in-1 USB card reader (sold by Amazon for a few pounds) is compatible with SDHC, so you could use one of these instead of your computer's built-in reader.