Product Description

Introducing the SimpleTech ProX Secure Digital (SD) Flash Memory Card, the fastest card available on the market today. With write speeds up to 10 megabytes per second, the high-speed ProX SD card significantly reduces the time it takes to save data to the card. An ideal removable storage solution, the ProX SD card works in digital cameras, cell phones, audio players, PDAs, digital camcorders, and other devices that use the SD card format. Engineered to optimize device performance, the ProX SD card is four times faster than standard cards. These next generation cards offer a combination of high storage capacity, fast data transfer rates, great flexibility, and excellent security and stability. Measuring 24mm by 32mm by 2.1mm, about the size of a postage stamp, the ProX SD card is a reliable, non-volatile and solid-state card. ProX SD cards are easy to reformat and fully compatible with SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) requirements, Physical Layer Specification Version 1.01, File System Specification Version 1.01, and Security Specification Version 1.01 (CPRM Based). Additionally, the cards contents can be protected by CPRM based security. ProX SD cards support a voltage range, from 2.7V to 3.6V, which favors mobile, battery-powered applications.

Product Details

• Brand: SimpleTech
• Model: STI-PROXSD/256

Features

• Mechanical Write Protect Switch
• Easy to reformat and fully compatible with SDMI
• Four times faster than standard cards

From the Manufacturer
SimpleTech SD (Secure Digital) Memory cards are next generation memory devices that offer a combination of high storage capacity, fast data transfer rates, great flexibility and excellent security, all in a memory card about the size of a postage stamp. SimpleTech SD Memory Cards measure a mere 24mm by 32mm by 2.1mm. Their slim, compact design makes them an ideal removable storage solution for designs ranging from pocket-sized cellular phones, audio players and digital cameras, to PDAs and set-top boxes as well as other compact or multi-function digital products. SimpleTech SD Memory Card provides high-speed response for large amounts of data. These are currently the fastest cards available on the market today. SimpleTech SD Memory Cards are non-volatile and solid-state. They facilitate fast, simple, and secure downloading of all types of digital files from the Internet. The SD format, compliant with SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) requirements, rewards the creative process of all content providers by providing high-level security to their files. Contents in the cards can be protected by CPRM based security. SimpleTech SD Memory Cards are fully compatible with the SD Memory Card Physical Layer Specification Version 1.01, File System Specification Version 1.01, and Security Specification Version 1.01 (CPRM Based). The cards support voltage range from 2.7V to 3.6V that favors mobile, battery-powered applications. Easy to reformat, SimpleTech SD memory cards can be used in a diverse range of SD-enabled electronics or appliances. Features

• Form Factor : 9 Pads SD (Secure Digital) Memory Cards
• Nonvolatile Solid-State Storage
• SD Memory Card Physical Layer Specification Version 1.01 Compliant
• SD Memory Card File System Specification Version 1.01 Compliant
• SD Memory Card Security Specification Version 1.01 Compliant (CPRM Based)
• SD and SPI Interface Supported
• Copyrights Protection Function
• 2.7V to 3.6VPower Supply
• Mechanical Write Protect Switch

Customer Reviews

Keeps up with 640x480/30fps movie mode in friend's camera.
I was looking for a fast 256MB SD card to keep up with my friend's new Sanyo J1 camera with VGA/30fps movie mode, and I was tipped-off to this model by a non-Amazon review of another brand SD/256 card where the reviewer mentioned that this (SimpleTech) card kept up with his digital camera's VGA30 mode. I was originally going to recommend the Sandisk Ultra II to my friend, but on seeing so many bad experiences w/that particular 256MB card (this site and others), and seeing as I personally have a 256MB Ultra II card in CompactFlash format which cannot keep up with my own Sanyo MZ3's VGA/30 mode, we opted to go with this SimpleTech 256MB ProX. Opinions aside regarding the drawbacks of the SD format itself, if you have an SD-format camera and need a hi-performance card, this is the one, as it keeps up with the J1 at full bore with no problem, which was a huge relief and a pleasure. And this SimpleTech card is actually (significantly) cheaper than the Ultra II anyway--also has a better warranty & tech support. Card comes with a little plastic clamshell case about the size of a CF type 1 card but with ribs to hold the tinier SD card in place. As the page info says, also features a miniscule switch on the card to write-protect it. Card came pre-formatted, so no need to format in-camera. Most cameras will add their own file structures automatically, so if you stick it in & it works, I recommend you leave in the factory formatting (who knows, they may use a more-optimized cluster size) and only reformat the card if you are having troubles. FYI, doing a high-speed card speed comparison through a USB 1 interface is futile, since these cards are far faster than USB 1's 1MB/sec limit. I see a lot of reviewers mentioning their new fast card doesn't upload any faster through their old card to the computer via their USB 1 card reader, and all I can say is consider the source of such advice. Many digital cameras boast voice record capability superior to handheld cassette recorders, and sound captures an event in a way stills & brief movies can't. And when recording extended sound on large-capacity cards, even with the LCD off, the battery can often run out before the memory is full because of the large drain flash memory creates. Because of that, the lower battery drain of the ProX card is a big plus. I haven't fully verified the low-electricity-drain benefit with the ProX, but I have no reason to doubt it because in my world, SimpleTech has 'delivered the goods' in the other ways I've tested.