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Last trip to Austin I stopped in at Fry's to buy another 4GB SDHC card
for the H2. They were out of brands I recognized and I bought a cheap
WinTec card.

It doesn't work. Spikes in the audio will show up somehwat randomly, but
frequently enough that there will be several within a three minute song.

I've given it two chances and that's cost me the board mixes from two
shows.

I'm going to stop in at the Best Buy close to where I'm staying this
trip and pick up another couple of SanDisk cards, which seem to work
perfectly.

Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.

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Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.


I found a couple of really good 16G SDHC cards, different brands, on sale
for around $20 - forget exactly - but way below what they normally go for.
Two different office supply stores. Look for it.

Gary Eickmeier


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Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.


I found a couple of really good 16G SDHC cards, different brands, on sale
for around $20 - forget exactly - but way below what they normally go for.
Two different office supply stores. Look for it.


I get Kingston 16GB SDHC Class 10 cards for $20 at the computer store.
Better than the class 6 Sandisk IMO. Far better than the cheap, slow generic
ones for not much less $.

Trevor.


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The two top brands: SanDisk, and Transcend.


I find the standard Trancend to be slow. YMMV.
The secret is NOT testing any cards (twice apparently) during a performance
you don't want to lose (as Hank says he did)

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"hank alrich" wrote in message
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Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.


I found a couple of really good 16G SDHC cards, different brands, on sale
for around $20 - forget exactly - but way below what they normally go for.
Two different office supply stores. Look for it.

Gary Eickmeier


I have a 32g Lexar Platinum in my H4N, it seems to work fine and cost
only a little more than the 16g in the same brand.

MJRB


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hank alrich wrote:

Last trip to Austin I stopped in at Fry's to buy another 4GB SDHC card
for the H2. They were out of brands I recognized and I bought a cheap
WinTec card.

It doesn't work. Spikes in the audio will show up somehwat randomly, but
frequently enough that there will be several within a three minute song.

I've given it two chances and that's cost me the board mixes from two
shows.

I'm going to stop in at the Best Buy close to where I'm staying this
trip and pick up another couple of SanDisk cards, which seem to work
perfectly.

Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.


My Tascam DR-05 has a card check routine which takes about 20 minutes
to run through an 8GB micro SD card. Is there a similar routine in your
recorder and would it have picked up those faults?


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hank alrich writes:

Last trip to Austin I stopped in at Fry's to buy another 4GB SDHC card
for the H2. They were out of brands I recognized and I bought a cheap
WinTec card.

It doesn't work. Spikes in the audio will show up somehwat randomly, but
frequently enough that there will be several within a three minute song.


Maybe the card is just too slow, although audio recording makes very modest
demands on cards. Did it have a speed marked on the card or the package?
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On 3/27/2012 12:10 AM, Gary Eickmeier wrote:

I found a couple of really good 16G SDHC cards, different brands, on sale
for around $20


Well, don't bother to send one to Hank. The H2, unless it's
been updated and I haven't been paying attention, is limited
to 4 or 8 GB cards.

I haven't bought any new cards for my H2 in a couple of
years. I'd been buying the Micro Center house brand cards
that they sell at the cash registers, but I find that I've
been doing what I said I didn't want to do when I first got
into recording like this.

Initially, I wanted to save the cards as original
recordings, searched for and found a reasonable storage
system for them (difficult, since it seems that everybody
else wants to just copy recordings to a computer and re-use
the card). Now, I delete just about everything I record
fairly soon (don't even save it to another drive) so there's
no point in saving the cards.



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"hank alrich" wrote in message
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Last trip to Austin I stopped in at Fry's to buy another 4GB SDHC card
for the H2. They were out of brands I recognized and I bought a cheap
WinTec card.


It doesn't work. Spikes in the audio will show up somehwat randomly, but
frequently enough that there will be several within a three minute song.


I've given it two chances and that's cost me the board mixes from two
shows.


I'm going to stop in at the Best Buy close to where I'm staying this
trip and pick up another couple of SanDisk cards, which seem to work
perfectly.


Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.


What class are the suspected bad cards? Class is usually a number between 2
and 10 that is in a circle on the front of the card.

I ask this, because I have found that some Class 10 cards can misbehave
badly in equipment that is not designed to exploit them, and some of the
failures I've observed correspond to your comments.

Put a Class 10 card in a piece of equipment that is designed for it, and it
can be a joy to use.


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Gary Eickmeier wrote:

"hank alrich" wrote in message
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Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.


I found a couple of really good 16G SDHC cards, different brands, on sale
for around $20 - forget exactly - but way below what they normally go for.
Two different office supply stores. Look for it.


Thanks, Gary.

SanDisk 4GB cards are just right for what I do. That gives me over 4
hours at 24/44.1 and I don't need to store more than that in one run
with the H2. They're quite cheap right now at Best Buy.

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The two top brands: SanDisk, and Transcend.


I find the standard Trancend to be slow. YMMV.
The secret is NOT testing any cards (twice apparently) during a performance
you don't want to lose (as Hank says he did)


Completely noncritical recording, couple of regular gigs, board mixes,
just for my usual curiousity. Didn't lose anything I'll cry over.

If it's critical I'm using the MIO and the laptop, not the H2.

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Mike Rivers wrote:
On 3/27/2012 12:10 AM, Gary Eickmeier wrote:

I found a couple of really good 16G SDHC cards, different brands, on sale
for around $20


Well, don't bother to send one to Hank. The H2, unless it's been updated
and I haven't been paying attention, is limited to 4 or 8 GB cards.

After a firmware update, mine works with 16GB cards.

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After a firmware update, mine works with 16GB cards.


Thanks. I'll check it out. [says the guy who says there's no
need to upgrade if it's still working for you]



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On 3/27/2012 10:00 AM, John Williamson wrote:

After a firmware update, mine works with 16GB cards.


Thanks. I'll check it out. [says the guy who says there's no need to
upgrade if it's still working for you]

It might work anyway, I only upgraded the firmware to get rid of a
couple of other minor bugs.

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hank alrich wrote:

Last trip to Austin I stopped in at Fry's to buy another 4GB SDHC card
for the H2. They were out of brands I recognized and I bought a cheap
WinTec card.

It doesn't work. Spikes in the audio will show up somehwat randomly, but
frequently enough that there will be several within a three minute song.

I've given it two chances and that's cost me the board mixes from two
shows.

I'm going to stop in at the Best Buy close to where I'm staying this
trip and pick up another couple of SanDisk cards, which seem to work
perfectly.

Just sharing a heads up. I didn't get what I thought I paid for.


Despite running the card-checking routine which is built into my Tascam
DR-05 (as described in a previous post) I have now had a SDHC card fail.
It was a cheap "PNY" brand 8GB card supplied by my local P.C.World.
They have offered to change it or refund the money.

I lost two interesting wildlife recordings, for which there was no
backup recorder. The recording appeared to be taking place correctly
but I got a 'Failed to save to card' message when I tried to close the
file. Both faulty files crashed the playback software after about 10
seconds.

On a couple of previous occasions I had experienced bad files being
recorded, but both were very short experimental files with nothing
important in them. The 'own brand' 2GB card which came with the
recorder hasn't given any trouble and I am now experimenting with a
Samsung 8GB, which hasn't failed - yet!



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