I buy only top of the heap Sandisk Extreme Pro. You get what you pay for. Zero failures since I switched to these exclusively. I also find their speed ratings are real. I don't have the K-1 buffer problems that Larry and others have reported.
Paul via phone > On May 17, 2017, at 6:33 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I carefully cut those teensy plastic dividers away with a very sharp > x-acto blade and get rid of them. They frequently snap off at one end > or the middle and cause cards to malfunction when inserted into > readers. Sometimes the loose sliver of plastic even snags and wedges > the card into the reader. > > Most cards (eg Sandisk) don't have this superfluous plastic junk, so > there's really no downside to the sliverectomy. > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:10 PM, P. J. Alling > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've run into an interesting problem with SD cards, between the metal >> contacts are plastic separators if they are bent in the least bit out of >> shape it can screw up the card seating properly and you'll get a variety of >> different error messages including but not limited to the card not being >> formatted and the card being unreadable. In most cases the stray plastic >> can be pushed back into position and the card will be read and written to by >> the device, just fine. I expect when it happens enough the plastic will >> break off, what happens after that is anyone's guess. I'd check that out. >> >> >> >>> On 5/13/2017 12:46 PM, jtainter wrote: >>> >>> Last fall I bought a K-1 with a Sandisk 64 gb card. I have just now gotten >>> around to calibrating my lenses for autofocus. Partway through this exercise >>> my system (Windows 7) would not recognize the card. It had recognized the >>> card fine up to that point. I tried going through a Lexar card reader on a >>> USB port, but Windows kept saying that the card had an unrecognized file >>> system and offered to format it for me. >>> >>> I reformatted the card in the camera, but with the same result. >>> >>> I then got out an old 2 gb card, formatted it for the K-1, and Windows 7 >>> read it just fine. So the camera and computer are working okay. >>> >>> At this point I thought the 64 gb card was faulty. But it is only about >>> six months old and has only about 150 images written to it. (I've been too >>> busy for photography). >>> >>> Then the next day I put that non-working 64 gb Sandisk in the computer, >>> and Windows read it fine. >>> >>> So, one day it works, a few hours later it doesn't work, and the next day >>> it works again. >>> >>> Can anyone pinpoint what the problem might be? Specifically, can I trust >>> this Sandisk card? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- 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.
