Need an SD Card for My New M9

[jmarcus]

Hi,
With all this news about the San Disk cards, I come to you with a question of what card to get for my M9?

What brand have you had success with?

Does anyone know the fastest card compatible card for the M9? I'm thinking something like a Class 10 200x but I will buy a faster card if it will make a difference.....

thanks,
James

 

[Seafury]

Get a couple of Transcend 8 or 16 gig class 6 cards and stop worrying. They're plenty fast and very stable. While I've had issues (like lots of other people) with SanDisk cards (constant red LED blinking) the Transcend cards have never given me trouble.

There are LOTS of posts on this subject, BTW....

 

[250swb]

Buy one from a reputable dealer, don't risk getting a fake card.

I have used a 16gb SanDisk Extreme III card without any problems at all for the last two years and I understand the new 16gb Extreme card (minus the 'III') is exactly the same card.

Steve

 

[Frontman]

Strangely enough, the only cards I have used which have suffered failures were Sandisk branded cards. As I live in Tokyo, I now use Toshiba or Panasonic cards which are made in Japan. I have yet to have a problem with these cards, I won't buy another Sandisk.

 

[sepiareverb]

I use Lexar cards. Never had any problems with them.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I use PNY cards in my M9 without trouble.

Do not use any Sanfisk card rates as "UHS-1". These are the problem cards. I use older Sandisk cards without problems, rates "4".

 

[elmer3.5]

Hi, i´ve been using scandisk and kingston cards up to 4 gb, the 8 gb are way too slow on the startup.
Also the m9 instructions recommend scandisk extreme cards, but haven´t bought one yet.

I´ve experienced some trouble with the cards, sometimes they go wild and send me a full card warning and cannot save any more until i format the card.
To avoid that inconvenience, i format the card everytime i download the content into the computer, that way i´ve never experience such "error" again.

Is ther any visible difference when using those extreme cards????

Bye!

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Strangely enough, the only cards I have used which have suffered failures were Sandisk branded cards. As I live in Tokyo, I now use Toshiba or Panasonic cards which are made in Japan. I have yet to have a problem with these cards, I won't buy another Sandisk.

Extremely smart. If I can avoid it, I try to buy anything not Made in You-Know-Where; all the memory components (including hard drives) that have ever failed on me were made there.

 

[Fraser]

I think I would avoid the sandisk just-in-case, I've always used Lexar not much point spending a lot on super fast big memory cards, I shoot raw uncompressed and the biggest card I have is 8gb and have never come close to filling it.

 

[jaapv]

Super fast cards only speed up the download into your computer, so you will have to drink your cofee faster. In the camera the speed is limited by the camera electronics, which means that anything over class4 is overkill. And don't buy huge cards. Cards can and do fail,get lost, washed in your pocket or chewed by the dog, and if a 999 shot card fails you will have lost all content... Better a few smaller cards. I rarely had any problems with Sandisk, just one card ever acted up over all these years.