Transcend 32 GB Class 10 SDHC Flash Memory Card (TS32GSDHC10E)

The 1-star threads are like watching a committee of blind men describing an elephant. Unsurprisingly, no one has the complete picture, but a lot of Canon owners think these cards are bogus. SD card technology is very complex, the Class system is often misunderstood, and there is a long history of compromised cards appearing on eBay -- or even from reputable dealers who have been hoodwinked. Kingston cards are most often faked (or taken from the midnight production run); that's because Kingston has about a third of the flash card market and doesn't forge their own chips, but any manufacturer can be spoofed. It doesn't pay to buy cheap cards on eBay or less reputable sources. An SD card contains a controller chip and flash memory chips, even the microSD versions. Realize that SD means Secure Digital, and that security comes from crypto managed by the controller (MMC cards didn't have that bloat, but Hollywood DRM requirements made sure they faded.) The controller can be pretty powerful: the Samsung SD controller is a 32-bit ARM TDMI chip with 128 k of code space -- that's cell phone power. It handles I/O and fading (when the card slowly wears out its NAND sites after about 100,000 hits so writing is randomly distributed and kept track of), the factory self-test, and a host of other functions, but it can also be programmed to report a false storage capacity. Sometimes the firmware on the controller or its crypto or something else on certain cards leads to problems with certain hardware, as it has, for example, with the Samsung Galaxy III and maybe the Canon cameras. Usually the card is found to confirm to SDcard dot Org specifications and the hardware is to blame, but you never know. To test the actual capacity of your card, use H2testw, which is free. It writes the full amount of data to the card and then reads it back (this nukes whatever was on the card). This can take more than an hour with a 32 GB card but it tells you if the card indeed holds 32 GB or has problems. It also gives you read and write speed numbers, but it's unclear whether the numbers are for random read/write, or sequential read/write. Sequential write is what photographers and videographers care most about. Sometimes a Class 6 card might test faster than a Class 10 card, when using computer read/write tests or even in a camera that wasn't designed with higher capacity cards in mind. That's because they use smaller block sizes (there's no cache on an SD card). Explaining the significance of this is getting too far into the weeds for an Amazon review, and modern devices and their firmware should not have that limitation. To test random and sequential read/write speed, use CrystalDiskMark, also free. Run the full suite; it won't take long. CrystalDiskMark requires that the card be formatted, and the most reliable way to do that is to use the free tool from sdcard dot org. A 32 GB card will may report 39.9 GB before formatting and 29.8 GB after; don't worry, you haven't been ripped off. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to read the manufacturer's ID off the SD card, even in Linux, to determine who actually made the card, because you have to have it connected directly to a motherboard; an SD-to-USB adapter won't work because it doesn't pass through disk data, and that's what's in nearly all computers. But what do you care, so long as the card's as big and fast as claimed? Now, what about the Transcend 32 GB SDHC C10 card? Here are full test results from CrystalDiskMark: Transcend 32 GB SDHC C10 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 19.953 MB/s Sequential Write : 13.786 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 19.618 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 13.827 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.003 MB/s [ 733.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.414 MB/s [ 345.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.491 MB/s [ 852.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.842 MB/s [ 449.8 IOPS] Test : 50 MB [F: 0.0% (0.0/29.3 GB)] (x5) Date : 2013/05/12 18:19:47 So you can see that the sequential write speed, what matters to a photographer or videographer, is over 13 MB/s, more than 30% above the C10 spec. The other speeds aren't to shabby, either. There's no way that this card is too slow for a contemporary camera, still or video, that is functioning properly. Also on Amazon for a very attractive price is a Sony 32 MB SD card. Here are the full CrystalDiskMark test results for it: Sony 32 GB SDHS USH-I Sequential Read : 19.998 MB/s Sequential Write : 14.115 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 19.772 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 13.173 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.682 MB/s [ 899.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 2.302 MB/s [ 561.9 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.517 MB/s [ 1102.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.323 MB/s [ 567.0 IOPS] So the Sony is slightly faster, 40% over spec. H2testw also reported full capacity and no errors for this card, so they are both top notch (The Sony doesn't come with a little case and the case for the Transcend case is about twice as big as it needs to be and so won't fit in the little pockets in a modern camera bag. Big deals.) Just for reference, here are the results for a contemporary USB thumb drive: SanDisk Ultra 32 GB USB thumb drive Sequential Read : 22.508 MB/s Sequential Write : 7.985 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 22.365 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 1.767 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.719 MB/s [ 908.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.520 MB/s [ 126.9 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.871 MB/s [ 945.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.482 MB/s [ 117.7 IOPS] As you can see, this USB drive is faster than the SD cards for reading, such as playing music, running software, or looking up data, which shows that it is nicely optimized for its intended functions. As an aside, anyone who thinks they have lost data on an SD card can recover pictures using the free tool at z-a-recovery or recover everything(!) with the free PhotoRec tools. So, if people want to whine about these SD cards in their particular cameras, they should run these simple, free tests and reach their own conclusions about whether the cards are "too slow." The cards test above spec objectively. And they both work flawlessly on my still (not Canon) and video cameras. I think they have gotten a bad rap here from people who don't have the full picture, so to speak. I'll also post this as a review, and on the Sony 32 GB page, too. I hope you found it informative.

This works very well for my application, which is in a 2015 Dodge Durango SD slot (UConnect 8.4N RA4). Many car SD card slots are limited to cards formatted with the FAT32 filesystem, and the maximum size of a card formatted with FAT32 is (as the name implies) 32GB, so for a lot of cars, this is the best you'll get without some luck and or/hacking. Many also list a maximum speed "class" of 8, but selection of those is pretty slim and usually far more expensive these days. Oftentimes, Class 10 will work just fine. I've owned several Transcend products, from flash drives to SD cards to an SSD, and I've never had a single issue. Flash memory is inherently stable, of course, but Transcend has yet to let me down. I use their flash memory in my phone, car, and computers. Sure, you could spend more, but really, flash memory is made in two factories, that's it. Both make good products, and you'll get the same thing no matter what the label is, as long as it is a recognized name brand and not a nonbranded knockoff which often uses far smaller capacity chips than listed. Transcend offers great value and a recognized name. With Class 10 speeds, the card ceases to be a bottleneck like they were years ago. YOu may notice it takes some time to completely fill the card with ~30GB of data, but that's to be expected with SD currently.It certainly won't slow down reading of music or writing of photos from the camera. Fully Class 10 compliant, Transcend’s Premium SDXC/SDHC Class 10 Cards help improve camera response with ultra-fast read speeds of up to 30MB per second. This outstanding performance is ideal for capturing high-resolution photographs and flawless Full HD videos.Transcend's SDXC/SDHC Class 10 Series memory cards come in a wide range of capacities from 8GB to 128GB to fit your storage needs. Whether you have a simple point and shoot or a high-end DSLR, they are the perfect everyday SDHC card to have during all occasions. The versatile SDXC/SDHC Class 10 cards support the latest Class 10 compliant cameras and camcorders, and are also backward compatible with any devices below Class 10. To improve post production efficiency, maximize the transfer rate by pairing the SDHC card with Transcend's USB 3.0 RDF8 Card Reader to achieve a speed of up to 22MB/s. With a purchase of Transcend’s SDXC/SDHC Class 10 memory cards, you can download RecoveRx software for free. This user-friendly application allows you to conduct an in-depth search within your storage device for traces of erased files to be recovered.

I was starting to finally reach the space limit of the 2GB card that came with my 3DS back in October 2012, and I decided that I would get a card I stand no chance of filling up any time soon. I saw the prices on SD cards were kind of low, so I went for the 16GB class 10 card by Transcend (TS16GSDHC10E), and I am glad I did. The card gets me about 15-20 mbps write speed (35mbps read speed) according to Win8, and it worked almost out-of-box with the 3DS. I say 'almost' because I had to use the SDHC format tool before the 3DS would understand the card was there. Anyway, this is a great card for Nintendo 3DS. I highly recommend it. It makes the space a lot higher (14.7 gigs after format), and it makes booting the 3DS menu a lot quicker because of the larger space allowance and the higher read/write speeds. Be warned, though, that transferring 3DS files to a new card can be risky. Save a backup of your data in a folder on your computer for safe keeping. The card also seems to work well in both of my digital cameras, but I hardly ever use my cameras, so I cannot give a worthy opinion about long term camera use. It should work fairly well, though, and the price is very nice. It's worth a shot at only $12.72! Plus, Transcend is a good brand in my opinion. I have yet to get a product by them that was below standards. This card met all my expectations and even surprised me a little at such a low price. I am a very happy customer. :)

When I bought this card a year or two ago, I was very pleased at how it compared with my 16 GB SanDisk Extreme card. It cost less, for twice the storage space, and it performed nearly as well as the SanDisk. On this basis, I can recommend it highly. However, I recall hearing warnings that the quality might not be quite as good, and for my insignificantly small sample size, it is true. The 16 GB SanDisk is still alive and kicking, but the 32 GB card suddenly became unreadable and unwriteable by all of my various devices about two months ago. The roughly 30 GB worth of photos and videos that I had foolishly left on the card for an extended period of time are apparently gone forever - even running fairly mainstream recovery software on the 32 GB image I was able to extract from the card has resulted in no recovered files. Just realize that this appears to be one of those "you get what you pay for" scenarios, and if, like me, you are just an amateur photographer, remember to transfer your photos to a real computer on a regular basis. I've lost nothing that I couldn't afford to lose, but it did cause some frustration and maybe a bit of regret.

We have been using these cards for over two years now in our Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i. We also use these cards for our daughter's Canon point and shoot. We have purchased the 8GB card in the Class 6 and Class 10, 16GB in Class 10 and 32GB in Class 10. There has never been an issue with any of these cards that we have purchased on Amazon. Maybe it's luck of the draw but we have been extremely happy with how these cards have performed. We shoot in RAW and occasionally shoot HD video (720P). The maximum number of shots that we can fire off before the buffer fills up is 9. There has never been an issue with jitter while shooting video; it has always come out clear and smooth. We aren't getting out our stopwatch to time the transfer from the card to the laptop... for 400 pictures it took less than 10 minutes to import into Aperture. For our DSLR, the 8GB card holds about 375 photos, the 16GB holds about 750 photos and the 32 GB holds about 1,500 photos. Folks, with memory cards this cheap, why are you re-using them? We purchased a few Pelican cases (0910-015-110) to hold our cards as we have finished using them and simply load a new card instead of clearing an old one and re-using it. As of the time that I am writing this, it costs $9.99 for 8GB of Class 10 memory, $15.98 for 16GB of Class 10 memory and $37.98 for 32GB of Class 10 memory. For prices that low, we are not recycling our cards; we are buying new ones and storing the old ones. If you would like to register your cards with Transcend, you will need to get the retail packaging as the Amazon Frustration-Free packaging does not include a registration number. As I said above, we have been extremely happy with these cards. We will continue to purchase them and recommend them to friends, family and colleagues.

I purchased this card to use with my Canon HF S10 Camcorder. (Note: Several of the Canon Vixia camcorders require a firmware upgrade to be able to uses class 10 memory cards instead of class 6, some are available as downloads from Canon's website, others such as mine require the camcorder to be sent in for a free upgrade to use these cards). It has worked well for me both using it to record in maximum 1920X1080P resolution for a 2 hours Van Halen concert and I have also used this to store large amounts of data on. Memory cars keep getting cheaper and the 26.99 for this seems like a fair price for a 32 Gig class 10 card. I have seen an HP go on sale for $22.00 recently on Amazon but this is one of the recommended brands according to Canaon so it was worth the money to me for sure. It has a fast write speed and from looking through reviews it seems to be a stable card so combined with the price I think it is a great deal. 32 Gigs is enough to store 2 1/2 hours of Blu Ray quality resolution on my camcorder. I have the extended battery for it so I can really record quite a bit of continuous video so the size and combination of power and capacity work out great for me. Considering that these cards are inexpensive, high quality and reusable all at a low price makes them a great deal for anyone needing a reliable class 10 32 Gig SDHC card. No problems dealing with it installed in my camcorder or transferring files from the card to my computer yet so I am satisfied.

Previously a Wintec Filemate 16 GB Professional Class 10 Secure Digital SDHC Card user, I ended up giving that card to my Mom for her new digital camera after discovering an old 2GB Polaroid brand card was what she was using. Continually getting poor quality shots, I thought it was her camera and had purchased her a new one. While the camera wasn't the best, the card was the real issue. I bought a second Wintec for me, but then read the reviews on this Transcend card and decided to purchase both. I knew I wanted a Class 10 SDHC at the right price to boost the performance of my Olympus SP-800UZ 14MP Digital Camera with 30x Wide Angle Dual Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.0 inch LCD . As with the Wintec Professional one, I was pleasantly surprised by this Transcend's performance in both this camera, my Ricoh GR DIGITAL IV US 10 MP Digital Camera with 1x Optical Zoom and 3-Inch LCD screen (Black) and in my Nikon Coolpix S6000 14.2 MP Digital Camera with 7x Optical Vibration Reduction (VR) Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Silver) . After some informal testing of with similar shots at night, I concluded the Transcend card is just a hair faster than the Wintec. Both are very good for everyday use, but some may prefer the Transcend card despite the small bump in price. Photos had been coming up blurry and the time the zoom took to focus was lagging with another card (Class 4): SanDisk Ultra 16 GB Class 4 SDHC Flash Memory Card SDSDRH-016G-A11 . With the Transcend card, those issues are almost completely gone and macro shots work much better too. Worked well taking video as well. Very pleased with this card - highly recommend it for faster, clearer shots taken with your digital camera.

This Transcend SDHC card is high capacity with 3 2GB. It also has quick speed (20 MB per second its cards read speed with its write speed being 16 MB per second). It is a high quality card. All this and a reasonable price. It has it all. After some research, I discovered that these cards have a "Class," something I was not aware of before. Therefore, this Class 10 Transcdend, the top of the line, fit the bill. This Class 10 has not disappointed after more than a year now. I performs flawlessly. Class 10 is for sustaining a minimum speed of 10 MBPS, and it performs above this level I bought this card for a SimplyVibe portable music player I have. I had a 16 GB card I was using and I was quickly running out of space, and I was having lag time issues with some of my files loading. That was it; I was going to get a 32 GB card. As for space, I have almost 6,000 songs on my card and it still has almost 2 GB of space remaining. I did not think a card could hold so much. After more than a year in my music player, I can tell you, this thing is FAST. There is absolutely no lag time in loading music files. Overall, this was a great buy, and a great value. No other SDHC card in Class 10 could come close to the reasonable price of this Transcend card.

Parfaite

Tengo tres Raspberry Pi en casa encendidas 24/7/365, las tres con tarjetas transcend y jamás he tenido ningún problema. Quiero decir que tienen un sistema operativo montado y funcionando, leyendo y escribiendo constantemente todo el año y no han fallado jamás, al contrario que alguna kingston que ha sucumbido a los pocos meses. Recomiendo esta serie de transcend en todas sus capacidades, son de lo mejor que hay y además baratas. Como dato para los que la busquen para cámara, una de las raspberry hace de cámara de videovigilancia y está constantemente tomando fotos y vídeo, insisto todo el año sin parar, y ni un solo problema. Parece que no mueren nunca!

Transcend nunca decepciona y lo vuelve a demostrar con su SDHC de 32GB. La Clase 10 se define por cumplir los 10MB/s y haciendo el test de velocidad gracias a CristalDiskMark podemos comprobar perfectamente que velocidad da y la verdad es que son buenos resultados dentro de lo que cabe, sobretodo porque es barata y tiene mucha memoria. Que resultados se han hecho? He hecho 15 repeticiones para sacar una media (bueno, la media me la saca el) y el resultado ha sido: Lectura: 20'74 MB/s Escritura: 19'34 MB/s Es verdad que hay tarjetas que llegan a 30 MB/s, pero son mas caras y a la practica si no eres un profesional de la fotografía, esta es una de las mejores opciones. Recomendada? Por su puesto que SÍ (y con nota alta)

Acheté pour enregistrer sur des caméras vidéo personnelles (en 1080p, 50ips), cette carte mémoire Transcend m'a donné entière satisfaction. Je l'utilise régulièrement depuis 2 ans maintenant et elle fonctionne toujours au poil. De l'espace, des débits corrects en lecture et surtout en écriture pour vos appareils photos, caméras vidéo et même consoles, c'est parfait. Attention, si vous souhaitez pousser un peu plus notamment pour enregistrer en mode rafale et RAW sur un appareil photo reflex par exemple, ou enregistrer en 4K sur certaines caméras, cette carte ne sera probablement pas suffisante et il faudra vous tourner vers des débits plus important. Toujours est-il que pour le prix et pour la majorité d'entre nous, vous pouvez y aller les yeux fermés ! Mention spéciale pour l'emballage "sans s'énerver" d'Amazon qui est tellement plus pratique que ces emballages plastique impossibles à ouvrir ! :)

Cheap, fast and reliable, what more to expect! Bought 2 for Ubuntu installs on a pc and a laptop. I use them occasionnaly for specific applications and in case of main HDD failure for recovery purpose. With this kind of use, yes it is a little slow but ok but with 8gigs ram on both computers, it works fine for me. Service with Transcend is great, I busted a 4gig SDHC in the past and even if the sticker wasn't "transcend", the serial number allowed to verify it was made by them and they just replaced it with a new one, after more than 2 year of abuse!!! (and free of any shipping charge!)