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 enlarge | Brand: Lexar
Category: CE
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $6.99
You Save: $23.00 (77%)
New (14) from $6.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 2 x 5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: SD1GB-231
Model: SD1GB-231
UPC: 840356775449
EAN: 0840356775449
ASIN: B0002XZQHM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Somewhere in between December 10, 2004
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
 FAST WRITE SPEED--5.5MB/sec December 5, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
 Hoped for a bargain, got a dud November 19, 2004
39 out of 43 found this review helpful
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 on read, slow on write October 7, 2004
129 out of 132 found this review helpful
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.
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