Sandisk Secure Digital Ultra II 2048 MB

Memory cards are perhaps not the most glamorous or exciting of products to write about, but given how much they're used these days I think this category rather deserves a review! The SD card (and its successor, the SDHC card) has certainly won the battle to be the standard format used in compact digital cameras. Digital SLRs are still quite likely to take the larger CompactFlash format, and Sony continue to cling obsessively to their own proprietary MemorySticks, but the xD format is being slowly dropped by Fujifilm and Olympus, while the old SmartMedia cards are now really of interest only to ... more

quick card, huge amount of space, excellent warranty, not much more expensive than a normal sandisk 2GB sd card. 10 MB/s read speed and 9MB/s write speed are faster than a normal sandisk card, but not as much as a (considerably more expensive) extreme III or IV. 10 year warranty covers most incidents for a long time. Card only really shows its extra speed over a normal sandisk sd card when in a SLR or prosumer camera, and it really helps if you have a card reader in your computer to make use of the faster read speed. Best value card at the moment, better than an sdhc card at the moment. 2GB ... more