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The first failed on second use and was, as always, replaced by Amazon without question

That replacement failed after about 14 months. It was only being used in my netbook as additional storage – and so was not subjected to the wear and tear of removal and insertion. Nor does my netbook have heavy use (being only used on vacation) It went in, and remained there until failure – which only amounted to about 5 weeks of actual use.

During that time period I had bought another of these Transcend 16 GB Class 6 SDHC cards to use in a camera. As I use a card reader to transfer images to the computer this SD card was removed and reinserted several times a month. It failed after about 8 months.

In January of this year I had bought another of these, and it failed last month – 5 months of light use in a different digital SLR.

I have Kingston and SanDisk 16 GB cards, none of which have failed.

Additionally, I have over a dozen Transcend 2-8 GB SDHC cards, none of which have failed either.

I can only conclude that either I have experienced a highly improbable event with this 100% failure rate, or that there is a flaw in the Transcend 16 GB cards.

This latter seems much more likely, and I will avoid Transcend cards of more than 8 GB capacity.

Today I just bought a SanDisk 32 GB SDHC – though more expensive than the Transcend 32 GB, I have the expectation that it is not as likely to fail.

Caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware.
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