AGFA SD card (kind of product review)

Hi there,

Our "Big W" store ("Wal-Mart") sells Sandisk Standard SD 256MB cards on
special for AU$42 (US$32) -- this is the one I got. But I also saw that
they started to sell SD cards by AGFA. The 256MB card is labelled to
have an "average transfer speed of 45x" (i.e., 7MB/s), "made in Japan
or Taiwan" and goes for AU$45 (US$34). Thaaaat should be a better deal.
However, is the card good ? If it is good, why do they sell it cheaply
?

I did a search on the Internet for AGFA SD card, and it turned up
single results, e.g.
http://www.testberichte.de/test/prod...mb_p51192.html
.. The packed card in the store definetely did not look like it was made
by Toshiba. Well, I thought, it could be made by Panasonic -- and this
would be great as Panasonic had a better reputation for performance and
speed. But I was confused by the card's yellow lock like Toshibas have.
Panasonic usually puts a white lock (and Sandisk usually puts a grey
one). The Internet search turned up that AGFA put its label on Toshiba
cards as well (with no speed marking on packaging), but it was not the
case in here.

I contacted AGFA (www.agfa.com), and they told me that they sold their
consumer digital photography business to AGFA Photo
(www.agfaphoto.com). AGFA Photo says on their website that they are in
the process of closing and selling out their remaining stock. This
means that I would probably not be able to use their 5-year warranty as
there could well be nobody to return the card to. Perhaps, this is why
our store sells their card too cheap as compared to Sandisk. (I
contacted the Sandisk Technical Support, and they told me that the
transfer speed of their SD cards was up to 2.8 MB/s (19x) by design,
but could be as low as 1.5 MB/s (10x) depending on a particular chip.
Earlier, I switched from a Toshiba SD card with a spec read/write speed
of 7MBps/2MBps to Sandisk SD card with the spec speed of
2.8MBps/2.8MBps. I wanted to get an increase in the write speed, but it
appeared that both cards had a write speed of around 1-1.5MB/s.)

So, by the end of the day, I decided to stay with the card I got, that
is Sandisk. I am tired of switching the cards. There are other things
which I value in the card besides its speed. I value reliability, and I
like the feeling of holding a neatly-made card. In the store, I cannot
have a look at an unpacked AGFA card. I decided the gain in the speed
would not be enough to justify the potential troubles.

If someone wants to comment on this, I would be glad to hear your
opinions.

Regards
D.

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