Transcend 32 GB Class 10 SDHC Flash Memory Card (TS32GSDHC10E)

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Product Specifications

Lifetime warranty, the data storage solution you can trust
Perfect for vast amounts of HD video and high-resolution images
Compatible with all SDHC-labeled host devices (not compatible with standard SD)
Built-in error correction(ECC) automatically detects and fixes transfer errors

Product Description

Capacity:32GB | Style:Card Only | Package Type:Frustration-Free Packaging Transcend TS32GSDHC10 Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) TS32GSDHC10 Flash Memory

Product Reviews

Great Value for the Price

Update 3/6/2012 I own about 20 Transcend cards now. They have all worked without an issue untill today. I dread calling any company for return support because it usually is such a tortured experience…(Ever tried calling SanDisk for product support?) Withing 20 seconds of dialing I was connected to their representative Marc Crawford. He was able to quickly and clearly guide me to the support I needed. It was such a shockingly great experience that I wanted to pass it along to potential purchasers.UPDATE 9-10 I own 4 of these cards now. I have more of these than any other card I own because they are a very good value for capacity/price/and speed. My initial disappointment over the lack of super high speed is outweighed by the reality that this card is an exceptional value.If you own a compact digital camera, or SD/HD video camera, this card will exceed the capabilities of all of them. For compact cameras the card isn’t usually the slowest part of the data write process, it’s the camera.This card unloads very quickly with a 20MB/s read speed. You will need a SDHC card reader if you don’t have one. A standard SD card reader will not read a HC (high capacity) card.These cards make great gifts. I have given several of the 8 Gig cards as gifts and have received appreciation and great comments from all the recipients.UPDATED REVIEW:I purchased this card making the assumption that all class 10 cards had the same read and write speed. This was a poor assumption on my part. In order for a card to qualify for class 10 speed the card needs to be certified to have 10MB/s write and read speed. Some manufacturers classify their cards at a slower speed even though they qualify for a higher class. SanDisk make some cards that would qualify for class 10 and rates them as class 6.The product photo on Amazon does not have the card’s speed printed on it. The card that was shipped shows the front of the card printed with “20MB/s” which is the cards read speed. The cards write speed is 16MB/s.I own a SanDisk Extreme III class 10 card that has (up to) 30MB/s read and write speed. My Nikon D-90 that can take advantage of the SanDisk cards speed. The difference is the SanDisk card can capture 100 photos at fine resolution in 24 seconds. The Transcend card captures 66 photos in the same time/resolution.I reality very few people will ever have the need to drill off 100 photos in 24 seconds, but I can’t stand to lose a good shot because the camera is slow while writing to the card and I can’t fire the shutter. You can hear this happen at about 4.5 seconds in the video review. This does not happen with the SanDisk class 10 30MB/s card.If you own an SLR that is capable of rapid fire, high-resolution photography you may want to consider the SanDisk Extreme III 30 MB/s card. It is expensive.This card is reasonably priced for a class 10 card. Just know what you are getting, what your needs may be, and what else is available. I own other Transcend cards and they have always worked properly without any issues.The video that I attached shows this card with the same 24 seconds that I gave the SanDisk Card.To see the SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s video demo and review on Amazon go to:Sandisk SDSDX3-008G-E31 8GB Extreme III SD Card 30MB/s (RETAIL PACKAGE)

Much better upload speeds and recording speeds than Sandisk. Excellent product.

I find these transcend SDHC cards to be better than the SanDisk products. I was having some issues with the SanDisk ones- my camera was saying they were slow. I have not had that problem with these Transcend cards. They are working very well for me. The speed is faster and they are the same class as the SanDisk ones that I purchased. I found that my videos on the sandisk were not uploading correctly and were taking hours to upload a 5 minute video. I have had none of those issues with the Transcend SDHC cards. I find them to work much better and my uploading speeds are higher and so much faster with these. I will continue to buy them.Transcend 16GB SDHC Class 10 Flash Memory Card Up to 30MB/s (TS16GSDHC10E)

Great, Above spec. Pay no attention to the 1 stars

The 1-star threads are like watching a committee of blind men describing an elephant. Unsurprisingly, no one has the complete picture, but a lot of Canon owners think these cards are bogus. SD card technology is very complex, the Class system is often misunderstood, and there is a long history of compromised cards appearing on eBay – or even from reputable dealers who have been hoodwinked. Kingston cards are most often faked (or taken from the midnight production run); that’s because Kingston has about a third of the flash card market and doesn’t forge their own chips, but any manufacturer can be spoofed. It doesn’t pay to buy cheap cards on eBay or less reputable sources.An SD card contains a controller chip and flash memory chips, even the microSD versions. Realize that SD means Secure Digital, and that security comes from crypto managed by the controller (MMC cards didn’t have that bloat, but Hollywood DRM requirements made sure they faded.) The controller can be pretty powerful: the Samsung SD controller is a 32-bit ARM TDMI chip with 128 k of code space – that’s cell phone power. It handles I/O and fading (when the card slowly wears out its NAND sites after about 100,000 hits so writing is randomly distributed and kept track of), the factory self-test, and a host of other functions, but it can also be programmed to report a false storage capacity. Sometimes the firmware on the controller or its crypto or something else on certain cards leads to problems with certain hardware, as it has, for example, with the Samsung Galaxy III and maybe the Canon cameras. Usually the card is found to confirm to SDcard dot Org specifications and the hardware is to blame, but you never know.To test the actual capacity of your card, use H2testw, which is free. It writes the full amount of data to the card and then reads it back (this nukes whatever was on the card). This can take more than an hour with a 32 GB card but it tells you if the card indeed holds 32 GB or has problems. It also gives you read and write speed numbers, but it’s unclear whether the numbers are for random read/write, or sequential read/write. Sequential write is what photographers and videographers care most about.Sometimes a Class 6 card might test faster than a Class 10 card, when using computer read/write tests or even in a camera that wasn’t designed with higher capacity cards in mind. That’s because they use smaller block sizes (there’s no cache on an SD card). Explaining the significance of this is getting too far into the weeds for an Amazon review, and modern devices and their firmware should not have that limitation.To test random and sequential read/write speed, use CrystalDiskMark, also free. Run the full suite; it won’t take long. CrystalDiskMark requires that the card be formatted, and the most reliable way to do that is to use the free tool from sdcard dot org. A 32 GB card will may report 39.9 GB before formatting and 29.8 GB after; don’t worry, you haven’t been ripped off.Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to read the manufacturer’s ID off the SD card, even in Linux, to determine who actually made the card, because you have to have it connected directly to a motherboard; an SD-to-USB adapter won’t work because it doesn’t pass through disk data, and that’s what’s in nearly all computers. But what do you care, so long as the card’s as big and fast as claimed?Now, what about the Transcend 32 GB SDHC C10 card? Here are full test results from CrystalDiskMark:Transcend 32 GB SDHC C10———————————————————————–CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 © 2007-2013 hiyohiyoCrystal Dew World : […]———————————————————————–* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]Sequential Read : 19.953 MB/sSequential Write : 13.786 MB/sRandom Read 512KB : 19.618 MB/sRandom Write 512KB : 13.827 MB/sRandom Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.003 MB/s [ 733.2 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.414 MB/s [ 345.1 IOPS]Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.491 MB/s [ 852.3 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.842 MB/s [ 449.8 IOPS]Test : 50 MB F: 0.0% (0.0/29.3 GB)Date : 2013/05/12 18:19:47So you can see that the sequential write speed, what matters to a photographer or videographer, is over 13 MB/s, more than 30% above the C10 spec. The other speeds aren’t to shabby, either. There’s no way that this card is too slow for a contemporary camera, still or video, that is functioning properly.Also on Amazon for a very attractive price is a Sony 32 MB SD card. Here are the full CrystalDiskMark test results for it:Sony 32 GB SDHS USH-ISequential Read : 19.998 MB/sSequential Write : 14.115 MB/sRandom Read 512KB : 19.772 MB/sRandom Write 512KB : 13.173 MB/sRandom Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.682 MB/s [ 899.0 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 2.302 MB/s [ 561.9 IOPS]Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.517 MB/s [ 1102.8 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.323 MB/s [ 567.0 IOPS]So the Sony is slightly faster, 40% over spec. H2testw also reported full capacity and no errors for this card, so they are both top notch (The Sony doesn’t come with a little case and the case for the Transcend case is about twice as big as it needs to be and so won’t fit in the little pockets in a modern camera bag. Big deals.)Just for reference, here are the results for a contemporary USB thumb drive:SanDisk Ultra 32 GB USB thumb driveSequential Read : 22.508 MB/sSequential Write : 7.985 MB/sRandom Read 512KB : 22.365 MB/sRandom Write 512KB : 1.767 MB/sRandom Read 4KB (QD=1) : 3.719 MB/s [ 908.1 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.520 MB/s [ 126.9 IOPS]Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 3.871 MB/s [ 945.0 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.482 MB/s [ 117.7 IOPS]As you can see, this USB drive is faster than the SD cards for reading, such as playing music, running software, or looking up data, which shows that it is nicely optimized for its intended functions.As an aside, anyone who thinks they have lost data on an SD card can recover pictures using the free tool at z-a-recovery or recover everything(!) with the free PhotoRec tools.So, if people want to whine about these SD cards in their particular cameras, they should run these simple, free tests and reach their own conclusions about whether the cards are “too slow.” The cards test above spec objectively. And they both work flawlessly on my still (not Canon) and video cameras. I think they have gotten a bad rap here from people who don’t have the full picture, so to speak.I’ll also post this as a review, and on the Sony 32 GB page, too. I hope you found it informative.

Awesome Value For The Price!!!

I had bought a Nikon D5100 camera a few years back and needed a memory card for it. I’ve had a lot of memory cards for older point and shoot cameras. They were all from Transcend and I’ve never had any issues with those. So I decided to stick with the same brand. This time around I needed something with more storage capacity. I purchased the 16 GB size memory card.The 16 GB was the perfect size for us. We don’t usually leave a lot of pictures and videos on our camera. As soon as we get the chance, we upload all the pictures and videos onto our computer/laptop and then delete them from the memory card to clear up more space. But even with that we’ve never come close to using up all the space on this memory card. We don’t take many videos but take tons and tons of pictures.This is a great memory card for the price you pay. I’ve never had any issues with this or any of the other previous Transcend memory cards. Very good brand and would highly recommend this.