Product Description

The Sandisk SDSDB2048A1 Secure Digital Memory Card expands the memory capabilities of your portable digital products. Whether you're listening to music on an MP3 player, storing numbers & contact on a cellular or smart phone, moving photos from a camera or camcorder, you have a huge amount of storage waiting for you here -- in a convenient, easy-to-carry size and format.

Product Details

• Brand: SanDisk
• Model: SDSDB-2048-A11
• Platform: Not Machine Specific
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 2.00" w x 5.00" l, .3 pounds

Features

• Fast transfer rate for reliable copy/download/backup
• 2GB of storage capacity
• Low battery consumption to maximize battery life in small portable devices
• User selectable mechanical write protect switch on the exterior card casing
• Operating shock rating of 2,000Gs, equivalent to a 10-foot drop to the floor

From the Manufacturer
What is an SD Card?
The SD Card is a highly secure stamp-sized flash memory card. Jointly developed by Matsushita Electronic (best known for its Panasonic brand name products), SanDisk and Toshiba, the SD Card weighs approximately two grams. The SD Card can be used in a variety of digital products; digital music players, cellular phones, handheld PCs (HPCs), digital cameras, digital video camcorders, smart phones, car navigation systems and electronic books.

Advanced Features:

• Cryptographic security for copyrighted data based on proven security concepts from DVD audio
• High transfer rate for fast copy/download
• High storage capacity
• Non-volatile solid-state; no moving parts maximizes battery power. Data is not lost when power is turned off
• Low battery consumption to maximize battery life in small portable devices
• User selectable mechanical write protect switch on the exterior card casing
• New devices with SD Card slots will accept existing MultiMediaCards
• Operating shock rating of 2,000Gs, equivalent to a 10-foot drop to the floor
• Security level complies with both current and future Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) portable device requirements

Customer Reviews

Great for shooting video, all Kodak cameras need
I've been using the SanDisk standard speed SD card series for four years and have never had a problem with these inexpensive, yet reliable cards. My oldest one (a 512MB) is still used very frequently, having captured thousands of photographs. Now that the prices are getting lower and the sizes bigger, I would suggest that if you're only shooting still shots, 2GB is probably way more than you'll ever need. A 2GB card will probably hold about 900 photos depending on your camera's megapixels and JPEG compression. That's like 40+ rolls of 35mm film! However, if your camera shoots video, this card is steal since you'll never know when you need more space.

FOR KODAK OWNERS: In July 2006, I replaced a SanDisk regular SD card like this one with a SanDisk Ultra II card for my Kodak DX7590, because I was hoping that it would allow my camera to write high-quality 5MP pictures faster. But to my surprise, it timed exactly the same. So I emailed Kodak, and this was their response: "We appreciate your interest in high speed memory for your digital camera. Our cameras are designed to operate, write and read SD cards at set voltage speeds. Therefore, there is no advantage to using faster memory in Kodak cameras."

So if you use a Kodak dock or USB cable to transfer images from a Kodak camera to your computer, this standard SanDisk card is all you need...there's no advantage to paying extra for a high-speed card like the Ultra II. However, if you use a card reader to get images from the SD card to your computer, and speed is important to you, then it might be worthwhile to pay a little more for the Ultra II since read and write speeds through the card reader could be substantially faster.

Regular SD, seems a bit slow
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.

A Very Reliable Card
I had this card for about a year for my Casio Digital camera. It will hold about 2 hrs. of video at 30fps on 640x480. Very impressive speed ready speed for a regular Sandisk SD crad, about 32X. Yes it's ture, some old version reader or camera will not picked up this card due to it's limits. So you really need to check the compatibility of you device before you get it. But I won't give a low rating because of that. (Not doing your homework!!)