On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:42:04PM -0500, P N Stenquist wrote: > On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > > > Briefly: the 10-class 8GB TRanscend SDHC is back in stock at B&H. > > I just decided to try (despite my liking of SanDisk cards) and placed > > an order for 3 of them. > > > > Igor > > Right you are. B&H says my order for two cards has been filled. > Like you, I normally buy SanDisk, but this price is too good to pass up. In > regard to failures, I've had one Transcend card and one Sandisk card fail. > But the SanDisk class 6 cards seem faster than the Transcend class 6. >
The speed classification is just a single number - the real situation is a lot more complicated, of course. There are peak and sustained data transfer rates, both for reading and for writing. Sandisk tend to have higher sustained transfer rates and write speeds, and generally to be more conservative in their specifications. But I've never found the speed of the Transcends I use to be the limiting factor in-camera. Not have I had one card failure in four years - even the first 2GB cards I bought in 2006 (when I bought my K10D) are still finding use today in the E-PL1, while today the K10D has 4GB & 8GB cards. The K10D doesn't put as high a strain on the card as the later bodies, but I wouldn't hesitate to buy Transcend cards for use in a K-5 body. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
