SanDisk Ultra

[Clem]

I bought what was supposed to be a San Disk Ultra II SDHC memory card on ebay. The card I received just says Ultra, not Ultra II. I have never seen an Ultra before. Is it the same as an Ultra II? It shows a speed of 15MB/s. Any comments appreciated.

[David Metsky]

Does it look like this? http://www.sandisk.com/products/imaging-cards/sandisk-ultra-ii-sd-and-sdhc.aspx

On eBay, you can't be sure what you're getting. For the price of memory cards IMO it's not worth the risk.

[Clem]

No, it doesn't look like that. It just says Ultra, not Ultra II and the printed layout on the sticker is totally different.

[Clem]

I just went to a local Best Buy and it looks like San Disk is changing some things. The 16MB Ultra II card that saw there looked just like mine, it only says Ultra on the card itself but the packaging still says Ultra II.

[K1W1]

90% of the so called SanDisk cards on ebay are fakes. It's so bad that even ebay post warnings about them if you look hard enough.

The moral of the story here is that media is so cheap for what you get that buying from ebay saves you nothing and invariably has a considerable cost in faultly or corrupted cards.

Ebay warning below:

A significant high number of eBayers have been deceived by inferior quality, unpopular cheap, slow SD rebadged as SanDisk Ultra II for quick profit as a very high percentage of all 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB SD listed on eBay are counterfeit items. Genuine buyers got scammed by fraudulent eBay sellers everyday and this process keep on repeating.

Below is a stringent list of Certified Genuine & Authentic sellers for peace of mind purchase of flash and computer memories on eBay. One can safely purchase from these sellers as they have been through our restrictive process of verification & checks:-

1.
1800memory
2.
memory-r-us
3.
techinfiniti

The list is open to all genuine sellers to join. Due to overwhelming requests to be on the list, sellers MUST maintain 99.8% and above eBay feedback and/or a minimum of 1000 positive feedbacks before you will receive a reply. These requirements even surpass the standard eBay PowerSeller program at any level.

Since October-2006, eBay has decided all sellers could no longer hide their BAD feedbacks. Simply enter seller's eBay ID and watch for Negative/Neutral feedbacks wordings such as 'fake' and 'counterfeit' before buying at http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs


Since many have not seen genuine production SanDisk unit and counterfeit is now made to appear like 80% genuine, it is indeed difficult for most people to tell them apart. From the pictures submitted by eBayers all over the world, we are exposing the physical difference in the counterfeit which you can benefit from whether you intend to purchase one or make comparison with your own. Beware of sellers that are using original SanDisk web download pictures to sell counterfeit SanDisk as they do not represent the actual item that you will receive!

This article covers all 1st generation SanDisk Ultra II 512MB (SDSDH-512), 1.0GB (SDSDH-1024), 2.0GB (SDSDH-2048), 4.0GB (SDSDRH-4096) and 8.0GB (SDSDRH-8192) part numbers which are at speed of 10MB/s = 66X.

2nd generation SanDisk Ultra II 2GB (SDSDH-002G), 4GB (SDSDRH-004G), 8GB (SDSDRH-008G), 16GB (SDSDRH-016G) and 32GB (SDSDRH-032G) SD/SDHC are now at speed of 15MB/s = 100X and must have 15MB/s wording.