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60 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Surprisingly Mediocre
By IlPrimitivo
I didn’t want to review this card by anecdote alone so I applied numerous testing software and equated this amazon 16GB Class 4 card to others I had handy and here are the results:
Amazon.com SDHC 16GB Class 4
AmazonBasics 16GB Class 4 SD Flash Memory Card
Warning: Only 500 of 15140 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 6.44 MByte/s
Reading speed: 12.5 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
HP Branded SDHC 16GB Class 4
HP 16 GB Class 4 SDHC Flash Memory Card Q6305A-EF
Warning: Only 500 of 15185 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 13.1 MByte/s
Reading speed: 17.5 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
RiData SDHC 4GB Class 2
(No longer available in Class 2 category)
Warning: Only 500 of 3805 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 4.00 MByte/s
Reading speed: 11.7 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
As you may see, the Amazon card is with regards to 50% slower as the HP card in write speed and 30% slower in reading yet the cost of the Amazon card is 25% higher. Even equated to the old RiData SDHC 4GB Class 2 card the Amazon card is only 30% rapidly and without delay in writing and marginally more immediate in reading speed. Why is that?
The Amazon card may be adequate for it’s class and full marketing price point but when equated to the contest there are better selections to be made.
Amazon will need to demand a higher quality product from it is suppliers if it wants to compete in the market with it is own branded product.
17 of 18 persons found the following review helpful.
Great for taking tons of photos and videos.
By J.F.
I received this item as a gift since I love taking pictures and HD video. All of that may in truth eat up space quickly, so I was glad I got a SDHC card.
I’ve applied a good deal of other amazon basic items like HDMI cables and other electrical cords, and they’ve all served me well, so I did not worry when it comes to a amazon branded SDHC card. For all I know, they’re in all probability made on the same assemblage line as a huge brand name card like SanDisk or PNY.
Write speeds, they’re quick. My old camera applied to make me wait 2-3 seconds after taking a photo, and waiting for it to write on my old old SanDisk 2GB SD card. Now after using this, instantly, I may shoot more photos and videos without necessitating to wait for it to write to the card.
Read speeds are finelooking quick, all my pictures and videos showed up within seconds. My old Sandisk would make me sit there for a minute or two while it read each effigy and devised preview icons for them in windows.
I highly commend it to any individual who’s into photography or just likes to shoot tons of videos/photos. I tend to copy everything and save it on my computer when the card starts to get full, but if you’re the type of person who saves it all on SD cards for a long time, you might opt to get a 8 or 16GB card instead.
2 of 2 persons found the following review helpful.
8 GB Class 4 Memory Card
By Joseph W. Aubele
The card surely has capacity to spare, even shooting RAW files. However, like a great deal of of you I take delight in taking photographs at sporting events and that is where the divergence amongst a class 4 card and a class 6 card (which I have assorted of) shows up.
The slower writing speed on the class 4 card, and slower transfer speed when off-loading the images to my computer, is disappointing ~ sufficient so that I will sacrifice capacity for intensified speed when making future purchases.
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