Lexar 60x SD card advice

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Hi,

Will a Lexar 1GB 60x SD card like at
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/ [...] r1gbsd.asp work well in
a Palm m515? More generally, what are Lexar cards like? Should I stay
away? What about the "Transcend" brand?

Thanks in advance for any advice people can provide.

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Necron 99 wrote:
> "Geoffrey Miller" <geoffreymiller@postmark.net> wrote in message
> news:623f8b5e.0501260146.777e20a@posting.google.com...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Will a Lexar 1GB 60x SD card like at
>>http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04021225lexar1gbsd.asp work well in
>>a Palm m515? More generally, what are Lexar cards like? Should I stay
>>away? What about the "Transcend" brand?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any advice people can provide.
>
>
> Lexar acts up in my T|E, but fine in my camera. Other people swear by them,
> however.
>
>

I have a regular speed 1Gb Lexar SD card. It has given me no problems.
I tried a 32X speed 1Gb Lexar SD card to see if the application load
time would be improved. I used VFSmark to compare the two cards, and
the regular speed card was faster in all tests! So, the limiting factor
for expansion card speed in my Tungsten E appears the Palm interface,
rather than the individual cards themselves.

HawkMan98

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geoffreymiller@postmark.net (Geoffrey Miller) wrote:

>More generally, what are Lexar cards like?

Here are what some of my Lexar cards do in my Z72:

Mfg shown on Label/Mfg listed in Info App

Lexar/Panasonic 64M

File Create: 220%
File Delete: 116%
File Write: 68%
File Read: 468%
File Seek: 561%
DB Export: 184%
DB Import: 512%
Record Access: 593%
Resource Access: 533%

VFSMark: 361
--------------------
Lexar/Unknown 64M

File Create: 950%
File Delete: 673%
File Write: 89%
File Read: 498%
File Seek: 621%
DB Export: 365%
DB Import: 630%
Record Access: 754%
Resource Access: 711%

VFSMark: 587
----------------------
Lexar/Panasonic 128M

File Create: 177%
File Delete: 146%
File Write: 54%
File Read: 331%
File Seek: 561%
DB Export: 61%
DB Import: 548%
Record Access: 540%
Resource Access: 468%

VFSMark: 320
-------------------------
Sandisk/Sandisk 512M

File Create: 115%
File Delete: 147%
File Write: 59%
File Read: 478%
File Seek: 694%
DB Export: 119%
DB Import: 605%
Record Access: 658%
Resource Access: 600%

VFSMark: 386
-------------------------------
Lexar/Unknown 1GB

File Create: 266%
File Delete: 231%
File Write: 57%
File Read: 504%
File Seek: 655%
DB Export: 189%
DB Import: 663%
Record Access: 724%
Resource Access: 685%

VFSMark: 441