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Viking 256MB Secure Digital Card (MLC)

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4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews) More about this product

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Technical Details

Optimized for use in PDAs, MP3 players, or digital cameras
Lightning fast read and write speeds allow you to get the best performance from your PDA, MP3 player, or digital camera
High quality components guarantee steady performance, the utmost durability, and breadth of compatibility
Individually tested to ensure each product works the first time, everytime
Five year manufacturer's replacement warranty

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Product details

Item Weight: 32 g
Boxed-product Weight: 454 g
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Item model number: SD256M-RE
ASIN: B00009J3V7
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 1 Jan 2002

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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Manufacturer's Description

Secure Digital memory cards are the latest generation memory devices that offer an incredible combination of high storage capacity, fast data transfer rates, great flexibility and excellent security in a memory card about the size of a postage stamp. Based on nonvolatile memory components and encased in a protective molding, they do not require power to retain the information stored on them. Since they are based on solid-state components, they have no moving parts to skip or break down, making them highly reliable.

The SD standard provides an easy method for quickly downloading and transferring secure digital files from your computer or the Internet. By using a SD Reader it is also possible to upload files from your SD card to your computer. As the latest introduction in the competitive Flash Memory form factor, SD is an increasingly popular format for leading manufacturers of digital devices like, MP3 players, digital cameras and PDAs. Because of its small foot print SD makes it easy for device manufacturers to integrate expansion capability into ever smaller devices.

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Viking 256MB Secure Digital (SD) Memory Card

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars cheap and cheerful, 5 July 2004

By	M. Bass (Belfast UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this card for use with a Casio Exilim Z4 digital camera and it has worked flawlessly. It worked as soon as it was inserted and I have never lost a photo on it, even when full. It is a very cheap card and does not operate as fast as more expensive cards, taking about 15 seconds to write a 60 second movie to the card. Deleting photos and videos is fast enough for most users, however it can take almost a minute to delete an entire card - very slow compared to others.
The card is very cheap for the capacity on offer and has been completely reliable in my experience. If you want a faster card I would recommend the Kodak, but if you don't care or funds don't stretch, this'll do nicely.

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88 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reliable and Low Priced but Slow Write Time, 27 Jun 2004

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I bought this Viking card as a replacement for a SanDisk SD card of the same capacity. So far it's been very reliable in my PDA. My SanDisk card often failed to read and write large files. What promted me to eventually change it though was when I tried to upgrade my car navigation software (which I store entirely on the SD card) and it started crashing all the time and certain parts of the software refused to work.

The Viking card says on the back that it is Japanese made whereas my SanDisk card says it is Chinese made. I have read several times on the web that China sourced SD cards have much poorer production quality control that the Japanese cards hence making them more unreliable. I don't know how true that is though.

SD cards seem to be quite slow in general. I guess this is because they use a serial interface rather than parallel interface as in compact flash. This keeps the physical size of card down but has the tradeoff that you can't transfer as much information as once. Annecdotally, compact flash is at least 4x faster than SD although I don't have a CF card to test it and there are different versions of both standards. Also you should note that most types of memory cards are generally slower at writing to the card than reading from it.

I compared the read/write times of my Viking SD card with my SanDisk card. The Viking card has the same read speed as the SanDisk card however it only has about half the write speed.

This is probably why reviews of this card vary so much i.e. some people think it's great and other people think it stinks. I use this card primarily for car navigation which is a read heavy application. You write the navigation software to the card once and read it back ever more. It is very rare that I actually alter the contents of the card. So for me the write speed is completely irrelevant. Most of the people who criticise this card are probably using it in digital cameras. This is because digital photography is a write heavy application i.e. you're constantly writing pictures to the card. If the card is slow at writing then that has an impact on you because you have to wait for the write operation to complete before you can take another picture.

Conclusion: Reliable card but slow write time. Fine for PDAs and MP3 players but try another type for digital cameras.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good SD card, 9 Nov 2003

By	Mr. G. Pierce (Merseyside) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have just purchased one of these cards for use in my Mustek DV400.It seems to work fine with MP3 files,Photos & Films.Therefore I can't complain.My only gripe is with uploading film footage that's around the hour mark in length as it can be a bit ssslllooowww,but in every other aspect O.K.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Washed and dried and still going.
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Published on 3 Nov 2005 by W. Burrows

5.0 out of 5 stars Bargain
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect balance between price and quality
I bought this card for use first in my iPAQ pocket PC and it works perfectly, no problems, although the write speed is considerably slower than the 128mb version. Read more

Published on 5 Aug 2004 by hermanchristoph

5.0 out of 5 stars No Problem!
Got the card for my PDA and it works just fine. Smilar cards of a 256mb memmory can cost over �100 in the high street stores. Incredeble price. BUY IT! Read more

Published on 9 Jun 2004 by Mr. Amit Ghelani

1.0 out of 5 stars Slowest card in the market
I bought this card as price was good and it was a brand I recognised.However I will not be buying Viking cards again. Read more

Published on 7 May 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Choice for PDA users
After owning a Toshiba e330 for a while now, I finally decided that the time had arrived to purchase a memory card. Read more

Published on 14 Mar 2004 by razmaster

5.0 out of 5 stars Good solid card.
I bought this card for my Ipaq 5550 PocketPC, and have no complaints. I can't comment on the speed issues that others have had, it seems good enough for me, dont really mind if it... Read more

Published on 18 Jan 2004 by tech-magpie

3.0 out of 5 stars Viking 256MB Secure Digital Card
i am using this product with a kodak dx6440, good price, very secure but very very slow

Published on 11 Dec 2003 by mkshallcross

2.0 out of 5 stars Very slow with digital camera
I purchased this card for my Konica KD400-Z digital camera and it seems quite reliable but it takes 3 times as long as my last card (128Mb Microdia) to write a 15 second movie... Read more

Published on 8 Dec 2003 by nrussell76

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