Good news for SDHC

[Craig Seeman]

Green strip under the word Transcend or Red background behind the word Transcend on the card?

[Ron Pestes]

Good question. I have heard that red is possibley bad. However, mine is red and in the advertisement that came with the card it shows a picture of all the cards they make and they are ALL red regardless of type and size. My test was to run the card until full and then do a series of short shots. No problems yet but have not tested frame rate yet for under and over cranking.

[Craig Seeman]

It may be that certain sizes are only one color or the other. 32GB are red. 16GB apparently may be either from what I hear but maybe they’re only green.

[Brent Critchfield]

Nope, I have red 16GB cards, and am having lots of problems with them. Even getting media restore errors shooting 1fps timelapse footage.

[Craig Seeman]

Brent maybe this is important.
Maybe Transcend
16GB Green – Good
16GB Red – Risky

32GB Red only (no Green exists) – Good

If we here from others maybe we can definitively determine which Transcend cards are good or troublesome.

[Ron Pestes]

Brent, which adapter are you using?

[Lucian Evans]

Finding it all quite stressful with the Transcend cards. I’m using 16gb class 6 and am getting constant media errors. Back in the office testing everything and its solid with SxS but isnt liking the Transcend cards at all. I am very keen to save a few pounds (pal land) but cant cope with the uncertainty while shooting.

I’m not sure if the colours make any difference at all but mine are 16gb red.

cheers
Lucian

[Craig Seeman]

Lucian, if you read the above, color MAY make a difference at least with 16GB Transcend.

So far the pattern is
16GB Green – good
16GB Red – risky
32GB Red (only comes in red apparently) – good

When people report issues with Transcend
PLEASE include
16GB or 32GB and Green or Red.

If enough people respond we can discern the pattern which is much better than making a blanket statement about Transcend cards.

[Daniel Startek]

16 GB Transcend RED with the Kensington Card. Have been using it continually for the past month with no read/write errors.

[Craig Seeman]

Thanks for that Daniel.

While it’s hard to say anything definitive this is what I deduce so far:

Green is always good (are there any bad reports on this yet).
Red may or may not be good (some work, some don’t).

It almost reminds me of the way Resistors are measured. I believe it was Gold and Silver bands which defined the range.

Green may be to tighter tolerances/specs. That would me some Red would certainly work because a tolerance is a range, not an absolute. The loser tolerance means that some Red will work and others will fail.

All speculative at this point and certainly not even enough anecdotal data yet but it’s certainly something worth exploring.