SanDisk 2 GB Class 2 SD Flash Memory Card SDSDB-2048-A11

Best quality for the price

I was over at my brother's home one day, with my Treo, and was asking if he would like to copy some of my 'data' onto his card so he could use it on his PDA (both Palm PDAs of comparable if not exactly equivilant performance and capacities).After telling me how the digital recorder on his PDA doesn't seem to work, he pops in my Sansdisk card, records a bit of us talking, and it works better than he could have expected. So basically, for buying cheap memory many of his expensive device's features were completely useless--whereas with the SansDisk card they worked better than expected.BOTTOM LINE: For all you pay for whatever you're putting an SD card into, it's worth the price difference to get the memory that allows it to work as it was designed to. The SanDisk cards can always be found for a reasonable price somewhere--and here on Amazon you'll find that price.I could get technical and explain the difference, but really just want to put it down as a purchase of a SanDisk card is a purchase you can make with confidence, whereas others are not.Money well spent.----------------------Added: Customer service by SanDiskI bought a Casio Exilim camera--factory refurbished--which is compatible with SD Cards, but mine had a problem reading my 2 GB card and since the card worked in all other compatible devices, I ended up sending the camera back to Casio four times for repair or replacement. During this process, Casio replaced at least two of the circuit boards, updated the firmware, and even replaced the lens assembly, but the camera still had problems and they figured it had to be the card (fyi: the camera would read "Disk ERROR" on initial startup, but if I turned it off and on again right away it would function fine; and it also worked fine with other brands of 2GB SD cards as well other SanDisk cards of 1GB size I had tried. It also worked fine with my 2GB SanDisk card if I had just put it in before turning on the camera. Very strange).I contacted SanDisk by phone and they walked me through using my camera as a drive to format the card via the computer--which allowed me to format the card but didn't make the camera function normally as a result; then they were ready to replace the card without any sort of proof of purchase other than the card itself when their tech support person went on the Casio website and saw that Casio also sells SD Cards, realizing that on their list of compatible devices for the 2GB my camera wasn't listed, but that it was listed under the 1GB card. The answer was to trade my 2GB card with the two 1GB cards my wife had.So SanDisk not only was able to find Casio's mistake--which cost them plenty in repair attempts--but were willing to replace the card without any complication whatsoever otherwise.Outstanding. To me, the best products are the ones the company stands behind the best. Casio's customer service was excellent too of course, but by not saying in the manual that the camera was only fully compatible with SD cards of up to 1GB (though OK with some 2GB cards as well apparrently) instead of writing that it was compatible with any SD Card they had cost me a lot of frustration in using their product.

We recently purchased a Canon Powershot SD750 (awesome point and shoot)and it comes with a SD card with as much memory as Sugar Ray Robinson so we needed a larger card. I purchased this 2.0 GB SanDisk card for so little I was sure it was going to show up with a name like "SaMDisk" instead of SanDisk and melt my new camera when I put it in. Not true. We've been using it for a month or so everyday and it works great. It does it's job which is to store a mass amount of images and not alter the quality - which it does beautifully. No complaints here, except that I was hoping that there would be one coded image already on the card which, if deciphered, would guide me to the crystal skull.

This card has performed well in my Palm TX. I was able to begin using it right out of the box with no problems at all. The speed is great for what I need it for (accessing data and running programs on the Palm). (I have no idea how fast it would be in a digital camera, where speed is more critical, but it does not seem to be a sluggish card). I have taken it in and out of my card reader many times, and transferred data to and from it many times without a problem for almost a month now.SD makes high quality products, and this is no exception. This is a great card that Amazon is offering at a great price.

This is a regular-format Secure Digital (SD) card, regular in the sense that it's not of the latest SDHC (SD High Capacity) format. This is a good thing because it means this 2GB card is compatible with most SD devices like digital cameras, digital camcorders, GPS units, Pocket PCs, etc.Unfortunately, most USB media card readers (including Sandisk's own as well as Belkin ones) cannot deal with capacity larger than 1GB yet. So be *VERY* careful if you plan to use this 2GB SD card with a USB card reader: if you do want to do it, make sure you only read from it, not write to it, or you would risk corrupting the entire memory which would require reformatting. (Unfortunately, because most OS's write some extra system information to disks all the time, it's extremely unlikely you can avoid any writes when you insert this SD card into a USB card reader.)While compatibility with my devices seems good so far, what I don't like is the card's speed. It's actually quite slow. Sure, this is a standard-speed card, the cheapest model in Sandisk's SD lineup. Still, it feels slower than my xD-Picture card, which itself is not a speed demon by any measure. So even though you get a lot of capacity (2GB formatted in FAT32), filling it up could take a painfully long time, even over USB 2.0 high-speed.In the end, I think this is a good value simply because it's cheap. I've filled mine with MP3s and JPEGs and nowadays use it with my portable GPS. For MP3 playback, the speed is not a big issue, but when viewing large JPEG files, it can be a little trying to my patience.

I got this to put audio-book files on and play them in my Garmin. I have deleted and re-recorded files, and dragged this chip around with me on my long-distance travels and just around-town errands, constantly listening and re-recording, and it still works 3 years later.February, 2013OK, this is still a great item, but after many re-recordings, it will no longer be able to record. Still a five star as far as I am concerned. I got a lot of use out of it, and it still contains "listenable" copies of the last books I recorded onto it last winter. I just wanted to say they will cease to record after a number or recordings. Sorry, I do not know how many times I re-recorded on this before it stopped.