Kingston Digital 16 GB microSD Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card 30MB/s with Adapter (SDC10/16GB)

Kingston Digital 16 GB microSD Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card 30MB/s with Adapter (SDC10/16GB)..

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76 of 79 people found the following review helpful.
Too slow to be class 10
By BobbyA
I tested the Kingston 8GB class 10 micro SD card using ATTO Disk BenchMark v2.46
Write speed was approximately 7.5 MB/sec, Read speed was approximately 12 MB/sec.
I requested an RMA from Kingston and returned it for an exchange. The new one measured:
Write speed approximately 7 MB/sec, Read speed approximately 13 MB/sec.
Compare these to a Kingston 8GB micro SD class 4 from 2 years ago, which measured:
Write speed approximately 9 MB/sec, Read speed approximately 16 MB/sec.
Or an ADATA 8GB micro SD class 6 (FWIW 1st one of these had to be exchanged too):
Write speed approximately 7 MB/sec, Read speed approximately 16 MB/sec.

Conclusion, unless an application only needs to read quickly, where cameras for instance need to write quickly, I would not buy this SD card again for class 10 performance, since I can get the same result with cheaper claas cards, or better performance with another brand. I also tested each card in my Nikon DSLR, results tracked the Benchmark testing, measured as number of pictures in a 20 second period with the shutter button held down.

Update:
I recently bought a Wintec 16GB class 10, same measurement setup indicated 12 MB/sec write, 16 MB/sec read speed. Besides the wintec actually doing what it was advertised to, these results indicate nothing in my hardware was keeping the Kingston card from achieving 10 MB/sec if it had been good enough.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Returned 2, didn't meet class 10 rating minimum. My class 6 whooped it.
By Amazon Dealfinder
SD cards have a universal standard they have to meet to get a class rating. The class number guarantees a minimum write speed. MINIMUM being the point, it is NOT an average.

This card is highly rated by numerous computer hardware websites that benchmark flash card memory. On all of those sites the benchmarks show this card exceeding it's rated write speed of 10MB/s (most by double the rated speed).

This particular card is rated as a class 10 and therefore have a minimum of 10MB a sec. After using 5 different benchmark programs on 2 computers and an Android phone my results were: Writing speed: 6-8.6 MByte/s, Reading speed: 15-18.2 MByte/s.

At this point I still trust the Kingston name so I have opted for an exchange.

UPDATE: Got the replacement, tested with the same 5 programs and pretty much got the same result (ever so slightly higher average). So I am returning it and going to try another brand (keep reading).

On a side note. I decided to test my Lexar Professional Series 8 GB 133x Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card SD8GB-133-381 that I bought here on Amazon back in Mar09. That class 6 card, with the same benchmark programs were: Writing speed: 16-17.8 MB/s, Reading speed: 19-21.2 MB/s.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Failed and "Lifetime Warranty" is pretty useless
By Mark Edelstein
I bought the card and it worked fine for about 3 months than completely failed. Since it has a "Lifetime Warranty", I took advantage of that, returned it to Kingston, and since have had to follow up every step of the return process.

I got delivery confirmation from the Postal Service, then had to send Kingston an e mail two days after the card was delivered to find out what the status was on the order. Their website said they'd be a little more speedy on processing warranty claims. Two days later I got a note that they'd get the mailroom to move the package through, which they seem to have done, although it should have already moved through based on what their website says. I waited a day for an update on their website as to the status of the return and checked it this morning.

They finally processed the return, but DARN THE LUCK, the replacement item is BACKORDERED. I called customer service, and the lady was very nice, but told me the item "Just went on backorder" so she had no idea as to when it would be coming in and would have to check with their engineers to find out. Engineers? She didn't offer a replacement product or any other solution other than to wait to hear back from the engineers.

The card was OK, but when it failed I lost everything on it. Now I'm waiting longer than I should have to for a replacement. What good is a warranty if you can't replace a defective product? I'm not a happy man.

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Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB SATA III 2.5-Inch 6.0 Gb/s Solid State Drive SH103S3/120G

Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB SATA III 2.5-Inch 6.0 Gb/s Solid State Drive SH103S3/120G..

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108 of 113 people found the following review helpful.
Tool Box could be better. Update 11/05/2013: Still reliable after 1 year.
By MoJo In New Orleans
Thank you Amazon for the very quick delivery.

I have been noticing that a lot of SSD vendors ship out their products in nothing more than a hard plastic shell, not Kingston. The Hyper 3k comes packaged with a nice box. The SSD and the 3.5" adapter and screws are held snugly in place by dense foam. As this is a bare drive, there are no software or sata cable provided. However, sata cables are cheap and software to clone your old drive to your new SSD can be downloaded for free from various software companies.

I'm sure you all are aware that SSDs are fast, really fast when compared to HDD. This Hyper 3k is no exception. To maximize the speed of this SSD make sure you run it in AHCI mode and not IDE mode. It is very comparable to my girlfriend's Samsung 830 speedwise. It is also built, in my opinion, a little sturdier than the Samsung. It seems a little heavier and the header where you plug in the power and sata is much, much better than the Samsung. With the Samsung when you try to disconnect the sata cable it almost feel as if the whole header will come off. The Samsung, however, has a much better toolbox called Samsung SSD Magician. The Samsung SSD Magician has features to optimize the OS, to do firmware update, to run benchmark, performance optimization, and secure erase. The Kingston SSD Toolbox, which must downloaded from Kingston website, only gives you Drive and Details. Details is useless, and Drive will tell you the model of your SSD and the firmware that came with your SSD. Kingston, you guys really need to give us a better toolbox. Visually, the toolbox looks like it was designed back in the 90's.

Firmware can not be updated via the Toolbox, you have to go to Kingston website and download it from there. Quite cumbersome. Also in order to update the firmware, you HAVE to be in AHCI mode. If you are in IDE mode, don't panic, there are quite a few tutorials on the web on how to change from IDE to AHCI by in the registry and reboot into bios to enable AHCI.

Good news for Windows 7 users, your SSD will be automatically be 4K aligned. What does that mean? It means you can clone or migrate your OS to the new SSD and not having to worried about doing the 4K alignment yourself.

For cloning my HDD to my Hyper 3k I used to programs, AOMEI partition Assistant 5.1 and Macrium Reflect 5. Both are free programs.
1. Install your SSD in the computer case but don't plug it in to the motherboard yet.

2. Uninstall any programs that you no longer used in your HDD, are haven't used in a long while, which means you are no longer using it:)

3. Defrag your HDD. What you are doing is trying to remove as much data as possible because the content that is left has to fit into
your new SSD.

4. Once it is smaller, launch AOMEI and shrink your drive. For example, you wean down the content of your 1TB drive to 150GB of data. Macrium Reflect will not be able to clone your drive because it still sees 1TB and will give you an error message that your source drive is bigger than you destination drive. With AOMEI you can shrink the PARTITION of you drive to 150GB. There is a tutorial on AOMEI's website. *you will have to reboot after AOMEI shrinks your partition*

5. After the reboot, power down your computer.

6. Plug your SSD to the motherboard with the sata cable and connect the sata power cable from your power supply to the SSD.

7. Turn on your computer and go disk management and initialize the unknown drive (your SSD). Once initialized, Windows will recognize your SSD and assigned a drive letter to it.

8. Launch Macrium reflect and click on clone my drive. It will show your HDD and SSD. All you have to do is drag the partitions down to the SSD. Most people will only have 2 partitions on the HDD.

9. Sit back, relax, this could take 30 minutes or more depending on how much data you have. I only had to clone 73GB so it took only 17 minutes.

10. After it's done, you will need to reboot.

11. Google how to enable AHCI mode and follow the steps (not long and complicated at all).

12. One more reboot and you are done.

Enjoy your new drive:)

Update 11/05/13: After 1 year of usage, this SSD is still as fast as the 1st day I installed it. It has proven to be very reliable. The Kingston HyperX 3K withstood 2 abrupt power failure and a lot, and I mean a lot, of writing cycles as I am constantly moving my steam games back and forth from SSD to my HDD. Toolbox still shows that my SSD's health is still 100%.

The Holiday season is here and if you are looking purchase a SSD for yourself or as a gift for someone else, I recommend that you consider this SSD (if the price is right).

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
Update your firmware!! (EDIT - this is no longer necessary, but firmware support has ended. See comments)
By Josh Hinnenkamp
My drive which shipped on October 15th, 2012 came with revision 501 (501ABBF0) firmware on it, which has been out-of-date since June. At this time, the latest revision is 503 (503ABBF0) which was released in August.

I had some difficulty updating the firmware to Rev 503. The Kingston firmware update utility (found at Kingston.com > Support > Drivers/Downloads > Solid-State Drives > HyperX SSD -- SH103S3 > Firmware Update) would not recognize the drive.

As it turns out, it was either a conflict with the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) software I had installed, or the Intel AHCI driver that installs with the Intel RST software. Once I uninstalled Intel RST, rebooted, and the generic AHCI driver was automatically installed in its place by Windows 7, the Kingston firmware update utility recognized the drive and successfully updated to revision 503.

Once the update was completed, the Kingston firmware update utility will recognize the drive with or without the Intel RST software and Intel AHCI driver installed. There must be an incompatibility with revision 501.

The Kingston firmware update utility will tell you your firmware revision number. Make sure to check it out first thing after you get your drive!

43 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
Good fast drive nice vs sale price w/ bracket but.....
By Stephen
Drive is a good cost performance pay off but...
sata and power connectors seems to be made of brittle plastic without any reinforcement of a surrounding housing. This makes it easy to tweak the connection a bit when installing in tighter cases for instance. After 3 unplugs entire plastic connector broke off inside power connector.

Lucky exposed copper prongs still still allowed me use what was left of the messed up connector, so I continue to use the drive.

If I was a complete noob I would probably just being flaming this drive. Admittedly I could have been a bit more careful had I known how delicate these connectors were. Never had this kind of issue with the untold amount drives I have swapped in my lifetime. I bought it on sale, so GREAT DEAL!, just be careful with those connectors. Maybe even apply some dielectric grease.

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Kingston Digital 32 GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Flash Memory Card 30MB/s (SD10V/32GB)

Kingston Digital 32 GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Flash Memory Card 30MB/s (SD10V/32GB)..

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60 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Decent card at a great price, missing very little
By Accountability
Although the file system may prove confusing to many at first, this card is one of the closest things you can get to a mini-SSD (tiny non-moving hard drive) for at or under ~$100 (less on sale).

I decided to write a review here because many other reviews didn't mention a few critical pieces of information.

First and foremost, this card does support alternate file systems. Out of the box, if you don't have at least Windows XP SP1 (with update KB955704) on your PC, OSX 10.6.4 on your mac, and the "SDXC" logo on your camera or device, this card may not be recognized properly in its native exFAT filesystem, and your various computers and devices may not be able to format it in a way that is compatible with your other devices. If you format the card with NTFS, it will work on older Windows systems (and UNIX-based machines with ntfs-3G or FUSE-ntfs). If you format it with FAT32, however, it will work on almost every device I tested, even those which claim to support the SDHC (32GB max) standard. This is because there are basically no physical differences between older SDHC cards and these newer SDXC cards except for their capacity. Additionally, this means if you format the card with FAT32 on a compatible computer, you can use it in almost every camera, computer, or device that supports 4GB cards. That's right, when formatted to FAT32, I've tested it in a couple of devices that advertised a maximum capacity support of only 4GB, and it still played well with all the other old devices too!

Compatibility aside, the speed of the card deserves note. All cards are internally printed on different wafers of NAND (that's the actual flash memory inside these chips), so results may differ slightly especially in terms of small cluster random writes, but with my system and reader I have benchmarked sustained write performance of 16.4MB/sec and sustained read performance of 42.6MB/sec. If the "class" system were to be expanded, this card would therefore be closer to a "Class 16 card" in write performance and/or over a "Class 42 card" in read performance. I tested this on the built-in card reader in my 2011 Dell laptop, so if anything, these figures are conservative and you may experience higher transfer speeds on a dedicated USB 3 SDXC reader.

I've used many Kingston products over the years, and most if not all have been virtually problem-free. This card lives up to the trend. (Yes, I've used a lot of SD cards!) For better or for worse, this means I cannot comment on the warranty, since I've never once had to use it.

The only reason for deducting one star is lack of UHS-1 controller support at this capacity and price, so it does not explicitly take advantage of the faster 104MB/sec bus speed or 1.8V low-power operation mode. It is not consistently the cheapest card in this capacity, nor is it the fastest or "lowest power" to use (yes, this may become important when your whole device operates in the mW range). For most, the distinction is next to nil, but I found it worth mentioning regardless. In sum, although it strikes an excellent balance, it is still a tiny bit lacking in other technical regards.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Worked for awhile, then quit
By Amazon Customer
I bought this card in March of 2013. By May, the card would not function in my tablet. After reformatting it, it still resulted in continuous I/O errors. Unfortunately Amazon would not return this item because it was out of their 30 day window. Buyer Beware!
A followup: I was initially frustrated, but Kingston's lifetime warranty was honored very professionally by the Kingston company. I mailed them back my card and they sent a new one that has worked perfectly thus far. Therefore I am raising my rating to 3 stars. If it works for an extended length of time, I will raise it again because of the excellent customer service.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Slower than expected
By AdamDZ
Rather slow for a Class 10 card. It writes 11MB/s and reads 22MB/s. My other card is 64GB SanDisk, also Class 10, and it writes 20MB/s and reads 45MB/s. I bought this to have some extra storage in my MacBook Air and it's a perplexing choice: less storage, but quicker, or more storage but slower. BTW, test results were the same on the Air and my Dell Latitude regardless of the filesystem.

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Kingston Digital 64 GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Flash Memory Card 30MB/s (SDX10V/64GB)

Kingston Digital 64 GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Flash Memory Card 30MB/s (SDX10V/64GB)..

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60 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Decent card at a great price, missing very little
By Accountability
Although the file system may prove confusing to many at first, this card is one of the closest things you can get to a mini-SSD (tiny non-moving hard drive) for at or under ~$100 (less on sale).

I decided to write a review here because many other reviews didn't mention a few critical pieces of information.

First and foremost, this card does support alternate file systems. Out of the box, if you don't have at least Windows XP SP1 (with update KB955704) on your PC, OSX 10.6.4 on your mac, and the "SDXC" logo on your camera or device, this card may not be recognized properly in its native exFAT filesystem, and your various computers and devices may not be able to format it in a way that is compatible with your other devices. If you format the card with NTFS, it will work on older Windows systems (and UNIX-based machines with ntfs-3G or FUSE-ntfs). If you format it with FAT32, however, it will work on almost every device I tested, even those which claim to support the SDHC (32GB max) standard. This is because there are basically no physical differences between older SDHC cards and these newer SDXC cards except for their capacity. Additionally, this means if you format the card with FAT32 on a compatible computer, you can use it in almost every camera, computer, or device that supports 4GB cards. That's right, when formatted to FAT32, I've tested it in a couple of devices that advertised a maximum capacity support of only 4GB, and it still played well with all the other old devices too!

Compatibility aside, the speed of the card deserves note. All cards are internally printed on different wafers of NAND (that's the actual flash memory inside these chips), so results may differ slightly especially in terms of small cluster random writes, but with my system and reader I have benchmarked sustained write performance of 16.4MB/sec and sustained read performance of 42.6MB/sec. If the "class" system were to be expanded, this card would therefore be closer to a "Class 16 card" in write performance and/or over a "Class 42 card" in read performance. I tested this on the built-in card reader in my 2011 Dell laptop, so if anything, these figures are conservative and you may experience higher transfer speeds on a dedicated USB 3 SDXC reader.

I've used many Kingston products over the years, and most if not all have been virtually problem-free. This card lives up to the trend. (Yes, I've used a lot of SD cards!) For better or for worse, this means I cannot comment on the warranty, since I've never once had to use it.

The only reason for deducting one star is lack of UHS-1 controller support at this capacity and price, so it does not explicitly take advantage of the faster 104MB/sec bus speed or 1.8V low-power operation mode. It is not consistently the cheapest card in this capacity, nor is it the fastest or "lowest power" to use (yes, this may become important when your whole device operates in the mW range). For most, the distinction is next to nil, but I found it worth mentioning regardless. In sum, although it strikes an excellent balance, it is still a tiny bit lacking in other technical regards.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Worked for awhile, then quit
By Amazon Customer
I bought this card in March of 2013. By May, the card would not function in my tablet. After reformatting it, it still resulted in continuous I/O errors. Unfortunately Amazon would not return this item because it was out of their 30 day window. Buyer Beware!
A followup: I was initially frustrated, but Kingston's lifetime warranty was honored very professionally by the Kingston company. I mailed them back my card and they sent a new one that has worked perfectly thus far. Therefore I am raising my rating to 3 stars. If it works for an extended length of time, I will raise it again because of the excellent customer service.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Slower than expected
By AdamDZ
Rather slow for a Class 10 card. It writes 11MB/s and reads 22MB/s. My other card is 64GB SanDisk, also Class 10, and it writes 20MB/s and reads 45MB/s. I bought this to have some extra storage in my MacBook Air and it's a perplexing choice: less storage, but quicker, or more storage but slower. BTW, test results were the same on the Air and my Dell Latitude regardless of the filesystem.

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Kingston Digital 32 GB Class 4 microSDHC Flash Card with SD Adapter (SDC4/32GBET)

Kingston Digital 32 GB Class 4 microSDHC Flash Card with SD Adapter (SDC4/32GBET)..

Special Price Kingston Digital 32 GB Class 4 microSDHC Flash Card with SD Adapter (SDC4/32GBET) By Kingston

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175 of 186 people found the following review helpful.
The Fast and the Spacious
By Avid Reviewer
The Kingston 8 GB microSDHC Card works flawlessly with all my memory card readers: Kingston Mobilite, Kingston microSD Card Reader, and SD Card Reader. Windows (XP) has no trouble recognizing it as a removable drive.

- Device Compatibility
Using a microSDHC to MS PRO Duo Adapter, I am able to use the Kingston 8GB microSD in my Sony Cybershot DSC-W170 Camera -- it works like a charm; the camera has no trouble capturing pictures and videos (at a frame frate of 30 fps and a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels). All of my devices, such as my Garmin nüvi 360 and my HP iPAQ 111, are able to recognize the full capacity of the SD card.

- microSDHC Format
microSD cards of 4GB or larger are known more specifically as microSDHC cards. This 8GB Kingston card is therefore a microSDHC card. Beware that some older devices are NOT compatible with the microSDHC format. Such devices will only work with microSD cards with capacities of 2GB (such as this Kingston 2GB microSD card) or less.

(The technical specification for the SDHC/microSDHC format supports capacities ranging from 4GB - 32 GB. microSDHC cards of 16GB, such as this Kingston 16GB microSDHC card, is the largest capacity available as of this writing.)

- Class 4 Speed
This SD card is rated class 4 (data transfer rate: 4 MByte/sec, or 32 mbps) - sufficiently fast for the majority of electronics. A decidedly small number of electronics, most notably some camcorders and high-end cameras, require a class 6 SD card (the fastest transfer rate as of this writing). Transcend makes one that's rated class 6.

- Frustration-Free Packaging
Kudos to Amazon for their Frustration-Free Packaging efforts in using only recyclable packaging materials and in keeping the amount of packaging used to a bare minimum. As a giant in the e-tailing industry, Amazon's move will no doubt serve as an impetus for getting the rest of the e-tailers to follow suit!

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The Kingston memory card is compatible with devices that support the microSDHC format. It is a fast (class 4) memory card with plenty of storage. Definitely recommended if the specs meet your needs!

95 of 100 people found the following review helpful.
Works for BlackBerry 8310
By M. Krasilinec
I didn't see any reviews for this product, so I wanted to let you know that the 8GB (7.4GB usable) works on my BlackBerry 8310.

Interestingly, although the BB showed 8GB with the new card, I only saw 4GB (3.2 or 3.4GB usable) when I first connected to my laptop and the computer asked to format the card when I enabled Mass Storage Mode (I used this mode to drag and drop into the BB). I could only see 4GB on my work computer as well.

However, after standalone reformatting the card (to FAT32) on my friends Compaq both of my computers (and phone) now properly see it as an 8GB card. My computer and phone information is below.

laptop: Win XP Pro w/ 4.2.2.12 BB Desktop Manager
work computer: BB desktop manager 4.6.0.12 with win2k pro
phone: curve 8310 with firmware: v4.2.2.170 and AT&T as provider

I'm looking forward to using the expanded storage!

111 of 123 people found the following review helpful.
Do Not Buy This Product from RW Digital
By kristopolous
RW Digital is selling fakes. They are conning you. My module only wrote 2GB or so and then crapped out.

Kingston Inc said this was a counterfeit and will not support the product. RW Digital has not returned my inquiries.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT FROM RW DIGITAL.

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