Lexar RIP

[PKR]

Lexar is owned and made by Micron, one of the world's largest flash memory manufacturers. They don't need to buy memory from Kodak, Sandisk, or anyone else.

Yeah, I know. I was a Micron stock holder for a few years. Lexar always said it was USA made. That narrows it to just a few fabs. Micron owns several in the USA but I think they mostly made memory for phones. I think the controller in a onboard phone device is different than in a micro SD, SD,CF? Could be wrong. But memory consists of a controller and a memory module. Often made in different fabs , sometimes on the same location I would think. Lexar partnered with Kodak years back to produce Kodak memory, which was rebranded Lexar/micron. Kodak owned a major fab and I was just speculating that lexar may have made wafers in their plant. For all I know as Kodak got in trouble, micron may have bought that foundry ..don't know..

Micron owns many more fabs/foundries outside of the us than in the us.

http://goughlui.com/2014/10/03/real-or-fake-the-lexar-600x-64gb-microsdxc-card-mystery/

 

[farlymac]

I hunted around town for some CF cards, but wound up having to go to the only real camera dealer we have. He was pushing cards made by Delkin Devices out of Poway, CA.

I haven't tried it yet, as my D300s has slots for both CF and SD cards, and you can use one without the other. The salesman whom I know fairly well on a professional basis said they were far superior to any overseas made product. I didn't have much choice in the matter because that was the only brand he had in the size I was looking for (it's a 16MB UDMA 7 card).

PF

 

[sevo]

Lexar is owned and made by Micron, one of the world's largest flash memory manufacturers. They don't need to buy memory from Kodak, Sandisk, or anyone else.

That ignores globalisation and half a century of bean counter driven economics. As there always will be some OEM chip foundry that can manufacture the same chip 3ct cheaper, mass production is generally outsourced, and memory is THE mass product of our era. None of my Lexar cards pretend to be US made - they are made in Malaysia or China.

 

[richardHaw]

just as well...i guess 😱😱😱

 

[Fraser]

I've never had a card fail. But I don't do much digital. What happens when one fails? Is a complete disaster with everything lost or is it one or two corrupted files?

Sometimes they fail in camera but mostly from my experience and friends they fail when downloading onto computer.
Lexar cards are the only ones I've had fail, since then I've always used dual cards both writing the same as each other, one card is always left in camera just-in-case. If I have a few jobs in one day I only format that card at the end of the day while the card that is removed is formatted after every job. To be fair to Lexar those cards that failed were a few years old and probably would of had hundreds of thousands of images on them and Lexar also replaced them free of charge.
When I'm not at work I either use a Nikon df or M9 and I do wish they had dual slots.

 

[Mark1960]

Is this going to affect their card readers as well? I've been using one of theirs on my iMac for about 6 or 7 years without a single problem. In fact it's on its second iMac as I've upgraded since I bought it. I also take another one with me when I'm using my laptop. I know they are not the most expensive bit of kit, but whatever it cost it's always nice to know there's reliability there. Off to Amazon I go...but not panic buying.

 

[infrequent]

Why is it that digital cameras don't already come with internal storage? Imagine a laptop with no built-in storage. That would be ridiculous but here we are.

P.S. Have to credit Leica here for having storage on the TL. No brainer. And the camera companies wonder why smartphones have decimated their business.

 

[raid]

this thread made me do it

this thread made me do it

I went online this morning to order some Lexar memory cards. I ordered 6 cards each with memory 8GB.

 

[raid]

well, I have had nothing but great results with Lexar 64GB 633x cards on Nikon 810, Sony A7rII, Fuji X-T2, Fuji X-Pro2, Fuji GFX, Leica M-P.

I have never tried any cards with storage exceeding 16 GB. Maybe I should. I focused on 4GB and 8GB.