Product Description

The SanDisk Extreme III 4GB SDHC memory card offers speed, performance and reliability to ensure you get your photos every time. A 4GB memory card can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video. As an added bonus, the card is packaged with a bonus SanDisk MicroMate so that users have a one-stop shop solution for capturing, storing and transferring their images.

Product Details

• Brand: SanDisk
• Model: SDSDRX3-4096-A21
• Dimensions: .80" h x .80" w x .5" l, 3.00 pounds

Features

• One of the fastest, most rugged and most durable memory cards on the market
• Includes SanDisk's MicroMate USB 2.0 Reader/Writer (SD/SDHC compatible)
• Minimum 20 MBps sequential read and write speed
• Built to work under extreme conditions, including extreme temperatures and high altitudes
• RescuePRO recovers images, documents, mail, video, music and other digital files

From the Manufacturer
Serious professional photographers who demand one of the fastest, most rugged, and most durable memory cards on the market should choose the SanDisk Extreme III SD card. Built to work under the most challenging conditions, with SanDisk Extreme III you’ll get more speed, better performance, and unmatched reliability.

That’s because only SanDisk Extreme III memory cards feature innovative ESP Technology for the fastest speeds and highest performance. ESP stands for "Enhanced Super-Parallel Processing". Simply put, it means you are getting the fastest read/write speeds available – an amazing minimum 20MB per second sequential read and write speed – speed you’ll definitely appreciate whenever you find yourself shooting and storing pictures in harsh environments, extreme temperatures or at high altitudes.

Every SanDisk Extreme III SD card comes with RescuePRO so you can recover images, documents, mail, video, music – just about any digital file, with ease. Built with leading-edge media recovery algorithms, RescuePRO lets you preview recoverable data before you try to retrieve it. With RescuePro’s unique recovery algorithm for MPEG audio and MPEG video recovery (MPEG-1/2/3) what you see, and what you hear, is what you can recover.

Advanced Features:

• Fast 20 MBps sequential Read/Write speeds
• Ideal for demanding photo shoots under severe weather conditions – heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, etc
• Durable, reliable and thoroughly tested for heat, cold, shock and vibration
• Class 6 speed performance rating (based on SD 2.0 specifications)
• RescuePRO data recovery software - ensures your photos will always be there
• SanDisk's lifetime limited warranty

What is SDHC?

To support the higher capacity needs, SD cards are now requiring a different design. The new SD 2.0 specifications which supports 4GB and up, is called Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC). The SD Association has created and defined 3 speed classes to help you identify speed and performance capabilities/minimum requirements of SDHC cards and their SDHC host products.

Cards address data (read and write) at numerous speeds. Many factors impede this performance. SDHC guarantees a minimum read and write speed necessary to handle recording high quality video and audio. The maximum card speed may vary, but you can always depend on SDHC cards to meet your SDHC host product's high quality performance requirements.

SDHC Compatibility Information

Because SDHC works differently (supports the new higher capacity cards) this new card format is not backwards compatible with legacy SD format host devices.

Customer Reviews

fast and durable
This has been a great SD card it is extremely fast and has proven itself durable so far.

Nice card; questionable addons
Card itself seems fine. I bought this package instead of some of the cheaper standalone cards because I wanted the extras.

Sadly the MicroMate card reader is too wide to fit in some USB ports (including those on the front panel of my dell desktop and the side panel of my dell laptop).

If the RescuePro software crashes on startup, be sure to go into Windows Data Execution Prevention options and opt-out the rescuepro.exe to resolve the crash.

Love It!
I use this card with my new Canon SD790IS 10MP Digital Camera. I can get more than 900 photos on the highest settings. It records quickly, ready for me to take a second pic in a millisecond. I know technology advances, but this is way better than the 1GB SD card I used for my previous camera.

I now go out looking for ways to fill the card up with every trip!