Patriot 16GB SDHC card hits retail

For all of getting jazzed about your future filled with high capacity SDHC cards, we've got some stirring information for you. If you bounce over to Amazon's German wing, you can find yourself knee-deep in a Patriot 16GB SDHC card, selling for the low, low price of 279.99. Of course, good luck finding a device that can access the card's full capacity -- but hey, you're planning for the future, right?

[Thanks, Bryan]

[Alien Grey @ Sep 20th 2007 10:21AM]

I'm planning for the future alright!

[humpty @ Sep 20th 2007 10:43AM]

Excellent, i only have a 32gb ssd on my lappy.. this'll find a permanent home in it.

[Ant @ Sep 20th 2007 10:50AM]

Aaaarrrrr, SDHC give it a couple of years and how pissed would be when these things are £12. What do they do during the manufacturing process to make them that expensive, there must be some fixing going on. No, it's just they don't like to make a loss at any stage, god if Sony had the same business plan you'd be paying over £800 for the PS3.

Memory just ain't worth it. But still it shows they can get this memory into a small space.

[Russell @ Sep 20th 2007 11:58AM]

It's called an economy of scales and production scaling.

[ravachec @ Sep 20th 2007 10:50AM]

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=26213&vpn=PSF16SDHC6&manufacture=Others

[andrew @ Sep 20th 2007 11:13AM]

Device it'll work in? Nokia N800 - stick two of 'em in and you've got a 32GB media device.

[Cyberfloatie @ Sep 20th 2007 11:15AM]

Stay away from Patriot. I just spent $265 paying for full data recovery from one of their 4Gb cards and a friend of mine lost all her photos on one of their 2Gb cards

[Zarniwoop @ Sep 20th 2007 11:31AM]

My Patriot 4GB SD card is literally falling apart. The plastic has cracked along the edges and the ones separating the gold contacts have all fallen off and are hopefully not rattling around inside my camera or card readers. I've kept it from being useless with some careful superglue applications, but it is still very hard to get in and out because of the cracked edges and missing plastic.

[gfar @ Sep 20th 2007 11:33AM]

Way to archive to your flash card...

[Zarniwoop @ Sep 20th 2007 11:43AM]

Any media can fail, of course. Hard drives, Flash, SSHD, optical, tape, paper, stone tablets, all of it. If you aren't backing up everything you don't want to lose, you're going to need a waaambulance. Murphy's Law will educate anyone too smug or naive to follow a competent backup strategy. I've seen laptop hard drives running fine 6 years old, and I've seen shiny new 750Gig Seagate drives fail days after installation. I've had drives fail slowly so you can manage to coax your data off, and I've seen them die instantly and completely with no second breath that even the freezer trick wouldn't work on.

[David @ Sep 20th 2007 12:15PM]

Have fun RMAing also. I literally have to e-mail, fax and call multiple times just to get to a person who can give me an rma code. Truly pathetic. So far, I would have to say every level of their customer service has been not worth the purchase. This company is not Customer Centric at all!
The only positive from this is that they will help drive prices down.

[cyberfloatie @ Sep 21st 2007 12:11AM]

gfar and Zarniwoop,

I'm all for ensuring I have backups, but how do you make a backup when you take the PoS card out of your camera, put it in the card reader and then get nothing but read errors? I ran the full version of Photo Rescue Pro on it with no success and the same with the 2Gb card. I tried several different card readers and two different computers.

Incidentally, the 4Gb card was less than 5 months old, the 2Gb card was less than a month old. I said it before and I'll say it again, stay away from Patriot cards.

And BTW, Seagate's Data Recovery Service is awesome!

[skonofvulcan @ Sep 21st 2007 11:00PM]

Thats nice to know about. To bad you lost the data. I've never used a Patriot SD card only SanDisk, PNY and Kingmax so far. Both the PNY and the SanDisk look to be made out of two pieces of plastic that is welded together with a sonic welder. (Sonic welder clamps the plastic with two pieces of metal and runs high freq sound through it. The resultant friction fuses the two pieces of plastic together.)

The Kingmax card on the other hand seems to be a single piece with a very thin heat laminated layer on the bottom side. You can even see and feel the circut traces, the chip etc, all outlined in relief. The entire surface is black. Almost like a thin layer of rubber painted on. All of my SD cards have been in water multiple times and still work fine after being dried. The Kingmax one even went through the wash in my jeans, including the dryer!

I've yet to have a failure in any of these brands and had assumed all SD cards were durable. So finding out that there have been problems with Patriot cards is good. I will be much more selective when buying more SD cards, and will stay away from Patriot especialy!

Regards,
Skon

[jon @ Sep 20th 2007 11:47AM]

Sweet, my canon tx1 will love this baby

[Arnie @ Sep 20th 2007 11:50AM]

Heck the Creative Zen will be able to use this baby!!

[sbrown @ Sep 20th 2007 2:07PM]

Its important to note that you could buy another Creative Zen for the price you'll pay for the SDHC card, but what the hey.

[Dankoozy @ Sep 20th 2007 3:34PM]

meh I still prefer CF. remember although it might not be so relevant these days SD is the RIAA-supported memory format. 32 and 64gb cf's have been announced and should be out soon.

[Yojimbo @ Sep 20th 2007 3:45PM]

Finally, an HC card for my Nikon D80!

[cyberfloatie @ Sep 21st 2007 12:12AM]

Yojimbo,

See my post above. I was using the 4Gb card in my D80 when it failed.

[Yojimbo @ Sep 21st 2007 12:41AM]

Thanks for the words of warning, Cyberfloatie! DOWN with bad production quality! Down I say!!

[Bryan @ Sep 20th 2007 3:56PM]

http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=38527932&source=EWBBASE&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=38527932

[steve @ Sep 20th 2007 5:08PM]

I would still prefer Toshiba:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/22/toshiba-announces-32gb-16gb-sdhc-cards/

But, if Transcend were to make one for a reasonable price, I'd go for that