Is there a difference in the brand of SD memory cards for a digital camera?

Sandisk and Lexar come bundled with image recovery software that you copy onto your computer before you format the card. I am sure that the cards all pretty much perform the same, but these brands have a lifetime warranty fro some of their products, so that makes me think they are built to higher standards. As far as day-to-day use, I have some generic and some of each brand I named and they all work. The contacts on the brand name cameras seem to have the equivalent of the "thunk" that you look for when you shut a car door to check it's quality, if you know what I mean. You don't wonder, "Is it in there right?" because it just feels right. I don't buy generics any more, though. I just end up getting them "with things" somehow.

Is there a difference in the brand of SD memory cards for a digital camera?
it is about the speed and reliability. Sometimes a no-name or an unknown brand is just about refused/returned or "B" quality lots of cards from Big Brands.
Reply:I've used Sandisk, Canon, Fujifilm, Lexar, and "never heard of this brand before" SD cards in my digital cameras over the past 4+ years. I never had any problems with the cards, ever. I did have pictures corrupted as a picture was being saved when the batteries went dead - but that was the batteries' fault, not the card's.





Yea, you can get a good warranty, but I never had to use the warranty in the past four years. Ask yourself if you're willing to pay the extra money for the insurance. Given the dropping prices on memory cards, I figure it's not. IMHO, of course.
Reply:I've had a failure on a 1GB SanDisk SD card. It is one of their old, blue ones. The serial number on the back is BB0411WH and it says, "China" on the back. It worked for a few months and died. The camera suddenly said it needed to reformat the disk. I put it in my PC to download the photos that were still there but the PC would not recognize it. I tried to retrieve the photos by using software that recovers deleted files to no avail.





I now have their newer Ultra II black SD card and have not (yet) had a problem.





Good luck.
Reply:I have had generic ones and name brand ones and they all seem to perform the same for me.
Reply:No. I have used San Disk, A-DATA, Kingston and Canon and the only differences I have found is price. San Disk has to be one of the biggest rip-offs out there.