Anyone using Transcend CF cards?

[Tony Printezis]

Hi all,


Bryan posted a couple of good offers for Transcend CF cards. I've only used SanDisk. Any experiences / problems with Transcend?


Tony

[banman1]

Hi Tony,


I have the 32 gb 600X and i love it,no problems as of yet. I have filled the card 3 different times at air shows and its in my canon 50d all the time.........Rod

[andnowimbroke]

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[andnowimbroke]

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[Sean Setters]

I have a 4GB Transcend card that I bought a couple of years ago--and it's still working fine. However, its playing a backup role to my newer higher-capacity cards, so it doesn't see much current use.

[Daniel Browning]

I have several Transcend cards (64 GB 400X and 32 GB 133X) and they are working great. One colleague of mine had a Transcend card get noticeably slower and slower over time until he had to just toss it.


I normally prefer to stick with the faster cards. Right now I

[Alan]

I have a 16 and a 32 Gb 400X.


I had been using the 32 Gb for about a month, and it went belly up. I was using it during a photoshoot (no movies) with a 5DMk2. I reviewed the images with a friend at the time.


I removed the card later in the day, plugged it in to the PC, and the computer would not recognize it.


I tried several options to get the card to be read. Zippo. The card was less than a month old. I never filled it to more than 1/3 full, and did use it for movies, too.


I sent it to Transcend. They are going to send it to Taiwan to see if they can recover anything from it. It's going to take at least 3 months.


If they can't, I'm out the images, but they are going to replace it with a new card.


It has never happened to me before, where a card goes bad (and, I do mean, BAD). Up to this point, I've used SanDisk almost exclusively, and my cards are still running just fine.


For what it's worth, this has been my experience with Transcend.

[Jon Ruyle]

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[Tony Printezis]

Hi guys,


Thanks for the replies.

I had been using the 32 Gb for about a month, and it went belly up.

This is basically why I asked. I read a few reviews complaining about Transcend cards going belly up...


Tony

[Chris White]

Hi Tony,


I have two Transcend 16GB 400X cards I rotate with a SanDisk 16GB 600X ( i think, it is rated 90MB/s) ExtremePro in my 5D II, and I have not had any issues with them. I bought them on price and so far, so good. I was going to buy a couple of Transcend 32GB, but I have not thus far because I have seen too many bad card/just died reviews. Until I added those two this spring I only had SanDisk (various Extreme versions) and Lexar Professional 300X and faster. I have never had any CF card issues, again so far.


The price is appealing, but I think I am going to avoid Transcend until reviews get better. For what is worth, I believe that SanDisk holds the patent on CF format and I also think they make all the internal components themselves as well as assemble the final CF card. I know that Transcend uses internal components from various suppliers. That could be why some of their cards are better than others, they may have been built with better parts installed.


I hope this helps,


Chris