SD camera memory. Brand matter?

[Ike0069]

I just got a digital camera and it takes SD memory. Cany anyone tell me if it really matters the brand, and if so recommend any?

 

[AndyHui]

Panasonic is the fastest and the best brand to get.

Avoid SanDisk.

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: AndyHui
Panasonic is the fastest and the best brand to get.

Avoid SanDisk.

Yeah avoid SanDisk

 

[WobbleWobble]

Is SanDisk that bad? It's just slow right? But is it dramatically slower? How about reliability?

 

[AndyHui]

Benchmarks show Panasonic cards with huge performance leads over SanDisk cards in all areas...read, write, format and accessing. In the area of 400% faster.

SanDisk are horrendously expensive for the size and the poor performance that they offer. Same goes for their CF cards for that matter.

 

[WobbleWobble]

I found that SanDisk was the cheapest option I had. Cheaper than Kingston... well, that was the only other viable option asides from "generic" I could find in my city. If you don't buy SanDisk from a chain retailer like Staples then price wise, it's not expensive anymore.

But that much slower eh? Wow. Pretty dramatic.