The news has hit the net that Lexar is dead.
Buy those great flash cards while you still can!
Buy those great flash cards while you still can!
Lexar RIP
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the only card i ever had die on me was a kodak branded lexar made one.
filmtwit
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Woo000 Ho0000o!
Prest_400
Multiformat
Wow, that was unexpected.
It is a bit curious to think and relate it to the time of film discontinuations. I checked and one of my film sources has got Lexar cards too, so might get another one.
It is a bit curious to think and relate it to the time of film discontinuations. I checked and one of my film sources has got Lexar cards too, so might get another one.
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
Hm, not so great imho. My Nikon D700 had issues with the compact flash Lexar card all the time. Switched to 16Gb Transcend 400X and never lost a file again.
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.
Chubberino
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Anecdotal stories are cute.
Too bad the most reliable cards on the market are going away.
on to Sandisk then.
Too bad the most reliable cards on the market are going away.
on to Sandisk then.
kdemas
Enjoy Life.
Not too surprising given the cataclysmic decline in digital point and shoots and the related demand for memory cards.
That said, someone will buy them. Even the Petapixel article mentions suitors lining up.
That said, someone will buy them. Even the Petapixel article mentions suitors lining up.
PKR
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I'm not sure, and don't have the time to look. But, think Lexar are rebranded memory from Kodak's old foundry. EDIT: its Micron memory.. lexar is a trade name for micron memory.. If you have time to research it please post it. I'm pretty sure Lexar doesn't own it's own foundry. So, someone is making the memory for them (micron). If you find the source, you may get the same product. Once I got a trusted vendor list from SanDisk several years ago, I've had NO memory problems. I buy my memory from B&H. There are many on the list. Maybe Stephen might be interested in becoming a trusted dealer?
Here's what I have:
https://www.geek.com/chips/how-lexars-flash-products-are-made-1308286/
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3592
People are cheap and want cheap memory. From speaking to a SanDisk engineer, 30% of SanDisk memory is fraudulent/forged memory. Quality memory is more expensive than the stuff you find on the auction sites. Much actual factory made memory that shows up for sale cheap is stuff that failed testing and was run through the silkscreen or laser etching labeling machines by workers who raid the dumpsters during off hours. This memory is sold in bulk and makes it's way to market. People in china are poor and memory brings money.
Here's what I have:
https://www.geek.com/chips/how-lexars-flash-products-are-made-1308286/
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3592
People are cheap and want cheap memory. From speaking to a SanDisk engineer, 30% of SanDisk memory is fraudulent/forged memory. Quality memory is more expensive than the stuff you find on the auction sites. Much actual factory made memory that shows up for sale cheap is stuff that failed testing and was run through the silkscreen or laser etching labeling machines by workers who raid the dumpsters during off hours. This memory is sold in bulk and makes it's way to market. People in china are poor and memory brings money.
jsrockit
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Maybe, but it seems that they just have better avenues to pursue.
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Ko.Fe.
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SanDisk was always something serious for me. It is Western Digital now, even more serious.
Where is a lot more use for SSD in this form and factor than just memory cards for cameras.
One anecdotal. In North Korea they have smuggled DVD, USB players from China. South Korea is dropping from the planes USB cards with propaganda.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/asia/north-korea-drones/index.html
Where is a lot more use for SSD in this form and factor than just memory cards for cameras.
One anecdotal. In North Korea they have smuggled DVD, USB players from China. South Korea is dropping from the planes USB cards with propaganda.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/asia/north-korea-drones/index.html
PKR
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I think with the break up of Kodak, the brand, coating tunnels and foundry were all sold off to different people. I don't know who got the foundry, but one coating tunnel is said to be in operation and maybe used by several different manufacturers as is the case with many foundries. SanDisk is the biggest producer of memory and they are/were a partner in Toshiba's foundry if my memory is good. Few of these memory companies can afford full foundry operation. Sony has a huge operation. Toshiba is in big money trouble and that may have an effect on Western Digital/SanDisk. Things are changing quickly these days.
Fraser
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Used Lexar cards for years until two cards died in one week thats when I moved to sandisk. Shame 12-15 years ago that was the brand to buy.
rscheffler
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I guess even less incentive now for price competition at the top of the market, not that there really was any. Kind of like Seagate and WD HDD pricing.
Anyways, it figures. After years I finally bought into the Lexar Workflow card reader tower and plug-in readers after finding a too good to pass up deal on some of the components on Amazon Warehouse. Not that these will suddenly stop working, but I guess I will have to stock up a bit on some of the readers for redundancy. Going through old electronics junk, came across an old Lexar Firewire reader. 🙂 The logo reminds me so much of late 90s design.
Anyways, it figures. After years I finally bought into the Lexar Workflow card reader tower and plug-in readers after finding a too good to pass up deal on some of the components on Amazon Warehouse. Not that these will suddenly stop working, but I guess I will have to stock up a bit on some of the readers for redundancy. Going through old electronics junk, came across an old Lexar Firewire reader. 🙂 The logo reminds me so much of late 90s design.
charjohncarter
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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?
infrequent
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Indeed. Storage on phones/tablets for instance likely will be greater than what they were making from cameras.
Chuck Albertson
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Lexar is the imprint of Micron, the mondo memory chip maker based in Idaho. They're busy enough selling memory to phone makers and others that they've decided they don't need to be in the retail market. They've done this before - back in the day, they made very good desktop PCs, but eventually dropped that line of products, too.
PKR
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Supermicro made a motherboard that held 4 Intel quad processors for high speed math processing + micron Intel memory. A designer friend, I recall, used these in a big blade computer. One was in the math dept. At UCB, the other was at The Orphanage, being used for multi station editing and CGI. Really fast boards. They dropped out of that market years back. I think lexar/Micron was based in California back then? It looks like they plan to sell off lexar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexar
Chriscrawfordphoto
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