Flash Reviews

I got this card to work with a SmartMedia adapter for my Handspring PDA.

I haven't had any problems at all while using this item. The extra 64 megs of space is great. My only problem with it could be the slow speed of the card, but that could be due to the fact that it is attached to a PDA.

Rating: A definite buy

My friend got this product for his rio 500 so he could hold more music. We thought it would be a peice, because of the price, but it turned out to work quiet well. It just plugged in and puff he had a card that could hold as much as his unit for under 50 bucks. i would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a smart media card, and the price is great for a solid product. (it won't break easy because i droped it twice).

You should not buy this compact flash card if you have a FujiFilm S7000 camera as it will drain the batteries.

I bought the memory yesterday and put it in my S7000. It's been less than 24 hours, and I have had to replace the batteries twice (I've taken about 10 pictures total with the camera turned off most of the time).
Other than that the memory seems to work fine in the camera.

Note, I cannot comment on other cameras as this is the only one I've tried the card in. I believe this is a known problem in the FujiFilm S7000 camera, that some compact flash cards cause battery drains -- this is one of those cards. If you're looking for a 512MB CF card, consider instead the Lexar 40X 512MB WA card (CF512-40-380) as this works fine in the camera. I've also found that a SimpleTech 512MB works fine.

The PNY 256 is a very reliable card and you cant beat the price. I wouuld recomend this memory card to anyone that don't want to spend a lot for a SD memory card that don'twant to spend a lot.

My experience with PNYs have been great. They are actually rebranded Toshiba cards, so the quality is very good. I would definitely recommend PNY over Sandisk, which are known for quality control issues.

Mine lost all data as well. Over half way through a 2 week trip of a lifetime in Italy, my card failed and I lost all pictures. Sent card to a data recovery company that tried to repair the card to no avail. Will never buy PNY again.

I was always a believer that all media cards were created equal. Whether a San Disk, Lexar, PNY, or SimmpleTech card, it didn't matter, each worked as well as another. Well, I was wrong. After one use, just one single use, the PNY card stopped working! Just one use, I couldn't believe it!

In my line of work, I sometimes put my camera and media cards to the test. I use San Disk cards (which have never failed me), but one time I needed an extra card and had to settle for a PNY. That turned out to be a big mistake. Luckily I was able to return the card and get my money back.

I purchased a PNY 256 MB CF card in April of 2003, and it just stopped working, in December. I have tried to contact PNY for support, but their support people don't offer much help. They offer a lifetime warranty on their products, but tell me I have to return it at the place of purchase (I only have a 30 day return policy, and that has expired). Their support people have told me they do not offer picture recovery from bad CF cards, either. Lexar DOES. Guess whose CF cards I will be buying in the future...
In short, bad customer service and lousy support!

After a couple of weeks of use, the card failed work losing all the pictures from a trip to Arizona. Attempts to format and stick into card readers have failed. For the record, my camera is a Fuji FinePix 2800 Zoom.

I am likely to think twice about buying another PNY product (I have a third video card by PNY which is adaquete but could be better).

I agree with the previous review. I also bought this card and used it on my Fuji 4700, but after several months of use, a card error comes up. I re-format as FAT or FAT32 and it will work by taking 3 pictures only, but will eventually come up with another card error. I also bought a Sandisk version and it did the same thing. I own 3 useless 128MB cards and the one I use now is a 16mb card that came with the camera.

Card works great on my Olympus C-4000 AFTER I formatted the card on a Dazzle reader (the Olympus would not perform this task). So far I've taken many dozens of pictures with great success !

Two problems: first the card did not work in our brand new digital Nikon camera while we were on vacation. Second, tech support/help line was an endless loop of recorded nonsense--never again do we want to spend precious vacation time listening to "Press 1 for...." Do not buy this product.

I haven't had the reliability problems spoken of here when used in my Canon A70. However, I have had compatibility problems when trying to download using a third party USB 2.0 card reader. This is the only brand of compact flash that was incompatible out of four others I tried. I was forced to download directly from the camera at USB 1.1 speed.
Also, this thing has a write speed at least half as fast as other CF cards available (except for Sandisk). It slowed photo operations significantly.

I bought a 128 PNY CF memory card for my Minolta 404 almost two years ago, made thousands of pictures and down load many times. Never have problems. It was kind slow when I made fine quality (TIFF) pictures.