I just bought a SanDisk Standard SDHC at 8GB (Red top, Blue middle, White bottom).
I’m suspicious because on the front is a CLASS 4 logo. I have not been able to find this on the SanDisk website. All their Standard SDHC at 8GB are CLASS 2.
The serial info on the back of the package (ABOVE BARCODE) is:
without seeing the back of the card to confirm the identification number they will not likely be able to tell you for sure if it is real or not. if you are that concerned you purchased a fake send it back to the seller and purchase for an authorized reseller.
I bought a similarly looking card (32gb capacity) from a reputable store, so I doubt it is fake. Looks like Sandisk simply renamed their class 2 card (which was always doing about 4mb/s writes), but didn’t even bother to update the packaging.
I tested the card using h2testw and it gets the same results as Sandisk’s class 2 cards (writes: 4.3mb/s, reads 6.4mb/s), barely meeting class 4 spec.
if your test result is correct, it looks like SanDisk is faking the class 2 card by simply putting a class 4 sticker on the card (without changing the packaging) and selling the card for the price of class 4.
can any SanDisk employee or adminIstrator of this forum please come forward to clarify this matter !!!
if your test result is correct, it looks like SanDisk is faking the class 2 card by simply putting a class 4 sticker on the card (without changing the packaging) and selling the card for the price of class 4.
can any SanDisk employee or adminIstrator of this forum please come forward to clarify this matter !!!
no one is faking anything. the card meets class 4 spec with greater than 4MB/s performance. the cards are real and they are class 4 cards. they are probably just using up old packaging which is pretty common.
Well, they certainly tricked me into buying this card. I needed a card fast, and saw this one in the store. I bought it assuming (very stupid of me, I know) Sandisk’s class 4 is supposed to be faster than Sandisk’s class 2. It was going to get 16gb class 4 ultra card (9mb/s write, 15mb/s read) or something similar from a different brand, until I saw that digit 4 on the card.
In fact it’s the first time I see a brand name card that barely meets the spec, until now they always exceeded it.
Well, lesson learned, I won’t trust Sandisk again. Especially since they fail quite often (I have 3 dead Sandisk cards - 2 with broken read/write lock, one simply dead).