A Final Followup to 'Avoid This Secure Digital Card!'

In this blog entry (as well as this followup), I discussed how I was hoping to get a bad 256 MB Secure Digital card from Smart Modular Technologies replaced.

Last night, the new card arrived, and it's pictured to the right. Unlike the original card eCost.com sent me, this new card actually looks and acts like a real Secure Digital card. Hooray! Now if Smart Modular can just work on getting their labels the right size, they'll be in business.

The card does not seem to be any faster than the 256 MB SanDisk that I was hoping to replace in my Palm OS device. While this Smart Modular works just fine in PCs and my MP3 player, if you're thinking of using it on a Palm OS PDA or smartphone, you might want to consider a slightly more "premium" card make, like Viking or Lexar, as they have improved write speeds on the PDA. Not a big deal, but if you're backing up many MB of data, the difference in wait times can be significant.