Side by Side Comparison of: SanDisk vs PNY

Awesome !!!! I bought these and threw my brain away as these have more storage capacity and are energy and fuel efficent. I no longer have to consume Big Macs and Jack in The Bos two for .99 Tacos to fuel the brain I threw away.Doing my part to fight Global Warming !!!!

These are working for me in my trail cameras. Doing a good job, through cold and hot weather, rain, snow and wind. No issues. I download the pictures directly onto my iPhone using an Apple card reader without issues.

The price on these was awesome! I use these in my hunting camera and they work perfectly.

We have bought different SD cards through the years and always return to the SanDisk cards. We haven't used these yet (as they were purchased for backup inventory); however, ones we have purchased in the past have performed well and allow for clear pictures taken with game cameras with a fast shutter. Rarely any blurring on images.

They're exactly as advertised. It arrived for me as 5 different individual retail packages, which is fine. These work great in my game cam (sometimes called a field cam or trail cam), including from both Bushnell and StealthCam. The laptop I use to harvest the pictures is older and can't reach the theoretical top speeds of these cards regardless.

I use Sandisk products and love them. I needed some cards that I could pass around to our other photographers, that were reasonable priced, yet excellent in recording and moving files to the computer. These fit the bill. Perfect and a good choice. So good I already ordered more. . . . jim a

I originally purchased this 256 GB SCXC card, for my new Nikon L830 camera, but found that the camera does not recognize a 256, only going as high as 128. So, I figured I could instead use it for my Linux desktop computer as a huge backup storage device. Well, the computer saw the card, but was unable to mount it due to the new SDXC formatting. Bummed, I was all set to return this 256 card, but decided first to check the Linux OS repository for software solutions. Sure enough, there was a software solution that allows Linux systems to read SDXC cards, so I installed it immediately, and was pleased to learn that this 256 GB card functions fully! Now I have a mega sized backup card! So for my Nikon camera, I purchased the PNY 128 GB SDXC card, which works perfectly in the L830 camera. The new high-performance SDXC cards will not work in devices that only read SDHC cards, as I have come to learn today. By the way, if you run the Windows OS, there is also software to read SDXC cards available if your computer does not already do so.

One final note: I have heard it said that sticking to the big-name players like SanDisk and Lexar is the best advice for SD cards. I have been using PNY cards (based out of New Jersey) for years in my camera and computers, and have never had an error or issue of any kind. I currently have 5 PNY SD cards (3 SDHC and 2 SDXC), and they all operate flawlessly. I originally bought into the PNY line to save money, because they do not cost as much as SanDisk or Lexar, but having used them without issue for years now, I buy PNY as a first choice, with no reservations.

Using the built-in card reader in my Late 2013 MacBook Pro I was able to achieve:
Write: 63.6 MB/s
Read: 87.9 MB/s

Numbers were obtained using Black Magic Disk Speed Test with 5GB test files.

The card was factory formatted as ExFAT (normal for SDXC) and was not reformatted prior to testing.

Tip: Always format before first use! Do not use the quick format. Use a real formatting at first time. The reason is that H2testw.exe found a defect area of ​​64 Kbytes. This error was fixed by formatting.

Nevertheless I not remove a point, because the problem has been fixed and the price and performance is very good. Currently (Nov 2014) the price is less than half of all competitors that I could find.

The H2testw v1.4 program examines the entire 256 GB. After formatting, it was started three times. Always finished without errors.

Here are the outputs of two test runs:

Warning: Only 244478 of 244479 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 50.5 MByte/s
Reading speed: 67.4 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Achtung: Nur 244478 von 244479 MByte getestet.
Fertig, kein Fehler aufgetreten.
Sie können die Testdateien *.h2w jetzt löschen oder nach Belieben
nochmals überprüfen.
Schreibrate: 50,4 MByte/s
Leserate: 67,4 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Then there was a nearly 24 hours reading test (endless verfiy mode). Also finished without errors.

When I purchased a D7100, it came in a package deal with a 32GB card of this same model, so I figured it would be the best match. I use the 64GB in slot #1 for RAW files, with the the 32GB set to JPG storage, giving me both file formats. Since the RAW files will be larger, the setup seems best.

I have since learned of better performing cards from Sandisk, at least according to the expert reviews at The Wirecutter and plan on trying those at some point, but for now the PNY brand seems to work fine (I have used other PNY memory products without issue in the past). The Sandisk may be better for multiple shots of action scenes, given the reported small buffer capacity of the D7100, but since it is not soccer season for my boys I have not had a chance to try it out as of yet.

I would suggest checking out The Wirecutter's reviews that link back to Amazon for purchase (and support their site, which I have non affiliation with, but find very informative for gadgets and the like).

Recommended.

This affordable sd card has been working like a champ with my GH4 recording both 100mbs 4K and 200mbs FHD files! Shot 45 minutes of test clips in the range of 3 to 10 minutes each, without a single glitch.

The GH4 never needs more that about 25 megabytes/second, and I think there's plenty of headroom left in that department. On my Win7 PC using a Transcend TS-RDF8K USB 3.0 reader I get a sustained 60 to 65 megabytes/second write speed with multi-gigabyte Photoshop and video files. Have not timed the reads, but they are at least as fast. That's typical of how DSLR's throw data at their drives, in single huge chunks all at once.

Of course, writing a bunch of small non-video files in the sub-megabyte range will slow you down to maybe 9 to 10 megabytes/second because of the operating system overhead of opening and closing lots of files, but this card is actually better in comparison to most other flash flash cards and somewhat typical of hard drives. For instance, most USB 2.0 and even USB 3.0 thumb drives can only handle 5 to 8 megatybes/second with lots of small files.

If backing up lots of small files is what you need, cards like this are overkill. But high performance flash cards like this PNY are essential for the continuous data streams found in video applications and with high performance still cameras in burst mode.

I use these in my game cameras and they work fine.

Out of the 5, 1 of them did not work. Otherwise good buy.

They're just memory cards folks. Nothing to get excited about. They work

I used these cards to distribute pictures to the key people is a recent family wedding. The price was right and they provided plenty of space to load the photos. And, one loaded I could lock the card so the files wouldn't be inadvertently deleted.

As always SanDisk has been our go to manufacturer due to their cards always working. The only negative I have is the tines between the contacts tend to break off easily. This does not stop them from performing just beaware as tiny bits of plastic can get into the card reader.

good deal here.

If you have ANYTHING that is electronic, you're gonna want a CLASS '10' memory Card.
Do not buy anything less. Make sure it has the number "10" written on it, inside a Circle.
If there's a (4) inside a circle, then it's a Class 4. You dont want that.

The number corresponds to the Speed of the Card.
If you have an HD camcorder, and a Class 4 Memory Card, then your Recordings will stop themselves.
Because the Camera is trying to write data to the card FASTER than the Card can Handle.

GET A CLASS 10 No matter what you Do.

And cince this is a Name-brand Product, you know it's gonna Last. I still have Many PNY cards from atleast 10 years ago, that I still use today.

Well, first of all, the reason that I got this card is so that I could expand the storage on my Macbook Pro without spending tons of money on an internal hard drive, or carrying around an external hard drive. I also figured it would come in useful for using in my DSLR when I want to take an absurd amount of photos.

I just received the card, and here are my impressions.

1) Great value for the price. I have been setting up my computer for the last week, and all of a sudden having an extra 128 (available after any formatting) available is just a godsend. I am currently using it to juggle around some large libraries, and I will end up using it to house my iPhoto library instead of having it on my internal hard drive.

2) Speed is....OK - When I first plugged it in, I transferred over a 20GB file I need off the internal for space reasons, and it took about 20 minutes. Not great in speed, but absolutely doable. I then realized I needed to move my iTunes library off in order to make space for iPhoto coming off my backup drive...this is a 100GB library. I dropped it onto the SD card...and it was all of a sudden VERY slow. It told me TWO DAYS estimated time, and after probably about 10 minutes, had only done like 300MB of transfer. I canceled it, and decided to transfer just 50 GB of movies over as that would be easier.

I dropped the 50 GB of movies on the card...is going steady right now and estimated to complete in about 20-25 minutes. What?! This is great it started working faster, but how can it go from 2 days on a 100GB file, to 25 minutes on a 50GB file. Makes no sense and makes me really question the consistency of this card.

3) Size - now, anyone who is familiar with an SD card and tested one before ordering this would be very familiar with how much this SD card will stick out. I didn't check before hand, because I looked at the "flush" SD card options and they were mega expensive. So I figured I would deal with it. It does stick out more than I thought, a tiny bit over a half inch, but was it worth it for the value of this thing? Absolutely. When I have more money maybe I can get nicer flush SD cards, or heck just a bigger internal drive, but this purchase was all about value for me.

Overall, I still dig the value for this guy. At literally 25% the cost of apple adding an additional 200GB internally, I got 128GB that is flexible, can be used in my camera, and can also be very useful for transferring large files between computers or for on the go. I think it's totally worth it.

Overall, this wasn't a bad value. While I didn't get anywhere near the benchmarking speeds others did with the 32 GB version of this card, I'd definitely say the numbers were acceptable.Using a Kingston USB 3.0 Memory Card Reader FCR-HS3 via one of my USB 3.0 ports in a Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit OS, I got the following from the 1000 MB test in CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64:Sequential Read: 81.882 MB/sSequential Write: 36.929 MB/sRandom Read 512KB: 57.413 MB/sRandom Write 512KB: 13.204 MB/sRandom Read 4KB (QD=1): 5.158 MB/s [1259.2 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=1): 0.495 MB/s [120.9 IOPS]Random Read 4KB (QD=32): 6.698 MB/s [1635.4 IOPS]Random Write 4KB (QD=32): 0.512 MB/s [124.9 IOPS]I also did the 50 MB and the 500 MB tests in CrystalDiskMark, but there wasn't much of a difference in overall performance from the numbers above. Before you balk at the difference between my benchmark results and the results of other benchmarks, I would suggest taking into account that we are probably using a different OS and card readers. In other words, results may vary depending on the test environment.The following I got from the H2testw v1.4 test:Writing speed: 32.1 MByte/sReading speed: 65.0 MByte/sNow, as one can probably see, these cards are made to perform well in devices that write to large sequential blocks of its memory such as DSLR cameras and HD video recorders. Myself, I will be using it in a Canon EOS Rebel SL1 18.0 MP CMOS Digital SLR with EF-S 18-55mm IS STM Lens for shooting both still shots and video. Time will tell how well it performs in real world applications and I will update this review accordingly.

Like many others, I purchased this card in hopes of finding a cheaper alternative to the SanDisk Extreme 95 MB/s cards that are so popular. This is not that card. It is a very, very good card in its own right, to be sure. It will blow most cards on the market out of the water. But my tests in a Sony A77 II are showing that it is still significantly slower overall than those SanDisk cards. One would expect as much, given the dramatic price difference between the two. All the same, sports shooters who need their buffers cleared fast will need to stick to the big money cards. They really are that much faster.

It is worth noting that although buffers don't clear as fast as I'd like, this card has proven fast enough to support all of the Panasonic GH4's record modes. 100 mbps in 1080p, 100 in 4K, 200 in 1080p - all work great. No need to lay down the money for the super expensive high end UHS-3 cards or even the 95 MB/s cards. These are extremely affordable and will probably continue to be my go-to card for the GH4.

This memory card is part of the new line of memory cards aimed at the serious professional, hobbyist or tech enthusiast.The card is made in Japan. Lifetime Limited Warranty in the USA.I use a Transcend USB 3.0 Super Speed Multi-Card Reader for SD/SDHC/SDXC/MS/CF Cards (TS-RDF8K) that is connected to my USB 3.0 slot for a Read/Write test.Also, testing with a IOGEAR USB 2.0 Hub and 45-in-1 Card Reader GUH287 (Black) for USB 2.0 slot Read/Write test.I used a program that writes a 500MB file 5 times and averages the resultsPNY Elite Performance 90 MB/s (32GB card)USB 3.0Read 96.75 MB/sWrite 63. MB/sUSB 2.0Read 20.04 MB/sWrite 19.49 MB/sSandisk Extreme 45 MB/s (32GB card)USB 3.0Read 44.48 MB/sWrite 42.15 MB/sUSB 2.0Read 20.10 MB/sWrite 19.50 MB/sSandisk ExtremePRO 95 MB/s (32GB card)(coming soon, currently lent out).The Sandisk Extreme is still an UHS-1 Card and I just wanted to include it until my extreme pro is back in my hands.The key thing about the speed (transfer rate from memory card to computer) is that you really need USB 3.0 in order to see those fast transfer speed numbers. As for electronic devices, if the devices are UHS-1 compatible you should be able to see the benefits. In some cases like DSLRs, the write to card is limited by the buffer or the memory slot unit. Be back in a few months, testing it to see if it can handle photography gigs with my D600.

okay

They appear to work but are not genuine. They are not easy to extract from my camera like other memory cards I have used. Need to pluck them out with tweezers. I can not decern where the problem is. appears they may be just a smig wider then standard. Still so far they work.

These SD cards arrived quickly and I checked all of them in my computer to make sure they had full capacity available before packing them for my trip to Mexico. They did. They each had 8gb of space available.I then put each into my waterproof point and shoot camera to make sure the camera could read them. Three of the SD cards worked perfectly. Two of them gave me the error "protected storage". The issue being that those one of those SD cards had loose lock sliders and one of them was missing a slider all together. When I would insert the card into the camera, the loose slider would move into the locked position. And the SD card without a slider would just read as locked in my device. No amount of wiggling or speed change fixed this issue. Finally I had to use tape to trick my camera into thinking that the SD cards were unlocked. It was an easy solution but it wasn't one I wanted to deal with on vacation. I had to retape the slider spot every time I removed the SD card. Annoying but at least the cards were of good quality other than that minor defect and for the price I guess I can deal with a little annoyance.

One of the HDSC cards had damaged/broken contact points and didn't work. Since it would cost me more to return it, I did nothing about it and simply threw it away. The second one I opened was ok. Have not opened the other three yet, so don't know about them. Not very impressed that the first one was faulty.

my last order were 80mb these are 40mb. I thought I was buying 80s again. I will look closer in the future I would not have bought these

does not come with a plastic case!

This card was used for an in dash camera. It works great for recording 1080p HD video. However, this card does not withstand the heat very well. Though the manufacturer does claim that this will withstand heat up to 185 F, I still get a lot of card read errors, even if I have shades up and windows cracked open. For reference, this is in Southern California heat. The read error goes away if I blast my AC and direct it at the camera for about 10 minutes. Replacing the card with a fresh one will work immediately, leaving me to assume it is most likely the SD card.

Anyone interested in this working with your BMPC and saving about $30 not using a comparable SanDisk, heed my advice:

For the price you can't go wrong, however, and this is my fault, I tried to "cheap out" and use this on a Black Magic Pocket Camera which does not have this white listed for use with the unit, but the speeds exceed the minimum required for the camera to shoot in RAW.

Lo and Behold, the camera doesn't even recognize the card, I placed it into the slot, tried to "format" and a screen popped up saying something along the lines of "Card not Recognized" and returned to the main display showing no card is even inserted at all.

So, I'm sure its a great card for other cameras, but for one reason or another, on the BMPC it will not work, and that's what mattered to me most.

Excellent and fast shipping. Great for Video on DSLR cameras Purchase December 2014
Update: Feb 13th 2015 We have a issue with the SD card writing at 90MB/s when using the XAVC S format on a Alpha A77MKII and A7S.
I've continuously thought in my head that I was doing something wrong in the setting of my ILCE cameras but it was the SD card not writing and reading correctly.

I've always use the AVCHD format when doing video recording but in the last few days a client ask me if I was able to shoot in 60fps for a project and just out I'd agree to the terms. Knowing that I'd purchase this card that should have been able to capture the data. it was causing some lagging issue when viewing the video raw files. Yes, I've check my system on my laptop and there is not issues that I'm aware of going on my computer. It took for me to try both ILCE (cameras to find this out and tested the card using both A77 MKII and A7S in 4K(XAVC S) and the results were the same. Lagging and data reading and writing. This whole time the SD had this issue but it works fine in AVCHD format on both ILCE cameras from Sony. If I had knew this first hand I would had return it for another. So the best thing to do is test the cards to see if they will work on all formats on your DSLR or ILCE mirror-less cameras before shooting

I bought one of these and it turned out there was something wrong with it so Amazon replaced it. There are two things to say about this. 1. Amazons policy of replacing bad products is just great. No hassle, everything works perfectly ones you call them and say something is wrong. 2. when you get a new part at least I tend to think I'm doing something wrong if it does not work. I spent hours trying to get it to work before I finally gave up and returned it :-( The replacement card worked fine. I called PNY and they told me there were some cards that were not correctly formatted so I should return it. it would have better if these were never shipped!

I could only get about 20MB/s write speed. I tried it with two different USB 3.0 card readers.

I bought these for my game cameras. So far, 2 of the 5 do not work. Too bad I didn't find that out until after I had them for a while and already threw away the packaging.

I'm giving two stars because 3 of the 5 were unusable. It was to late to return when I realized it

Very happy with cards

I liked the price so I purchased a 256GB card. However it suddenly became read only after transferring about 50 GB of important files from my hard drive. This left me with a card that was difficult to return since now I couldn't erase some sensitive data that has been transferred to the card. This resulting circumstance makes me hesitant hesitant to purchase another since this problem doesn't seem to be an isolated occurrence based on other reviews I've read. I gave two stars only because PNY was cooperative in resolving my return issue.

Pros:Relatively low price per GBFast read and writeCons:Not as advertised speedDead within 4 months of minimal useI purchase this back in February this year. I started to use this in my Sony A6000 (raw+jpeg) for about 4 months and have taken less than 1500 photos. One day, I decided to take the camera out and do a fun group photo shoot for my church group. When I turned on my camera, it would not recognize the card correctly. Thus, I popped it into my laptop (Windows 8.1) and tried to see if I can format it from there. No matter what method I used, the card was not recognized by my laptop. I've tried it with the built-in SD card reader, Sandisk USB 3.0 card reader, and Sandisk USB 2.0 card reader. None had worked. Although it was a great card while it was working, I can't even use it as a paper weight anymore. I am extremely dissatisfied with this card. I don't know if PNY will honor their warranty, but at this point, I'm not too sure if I want continuously use their product in fear of know that one day all my photos and videos will be lost without any warning.So buyer beware! You maybe the lucky one to receive a good and lasting card, but even then, I'd question their advertised speed. I was only able to get about 70% of their advertised speed! At the end, you do get what you pay for.I'm only giving it 2 starts because while it worked, it did a decent job.

Mine failed after 2 days. My camera keeps keeps giving me card failure notifications and won't work. It has never had a problem with any memory card before. It did work as described up to that point. For me, reliability is the top priority. Peak speed is not nearly as important. Luckily, I have not been unable to recover images but this card is being returned to Amazon and PNY is off my memory card list and I'm going back to trusty Transcend and SanDisk cards...

I used 2 of these in a camera, and for some reason I couldn't get the pictures to come off the SD card. One of them was totally corrupted, the other I could get the pix to transfer (copy) however the pictures never came off the card. Yes, the lock was off, windows said no pix were there, but yet I couldn't write to the disk anymore and my camera said there were still pix on it. Then that one became corrupted, so I guess it doesn't matter now anyway. Went back to my sturdy little SanDisks - never had a problem with those.

I've used this card a couple of times. I shoot video; weddings, birthdays, that sort of thing. Both times I used it, I had glitches in my files. I don't know if my experience is typical and I am too afraid to use it in order to be able to give it a thorough enough review. I don't like the idea of playing Russian Roulette with my footage. I quite simply don't trust this card. I don't think I have enough experience with it to warrant a one star review, but I don't like it, I don't trust it, and I don't use it.My camera is a Canon 60D and I've always used SanDisk and Sony cards in it. The advertised speeds on those are like 40 MB - 45 MB.Never had an issue with any of them. I got this card because of the higher advertised speeds and it has done exactly squat to justify my purchase.

I'm not sure about this one. I bought it to use in a brand new Toshiba Chromebook 2. It disappeared and reappeared in the Chromebook file manager at random and for no apparent reason. I replaced it with a smaller card with a different brand name and those problems seem to have gone away. I haven't tried it in a different device yet.

These SD Memory cards do not eject properly when inserted in my camera. They appear to be slightly warped compared to the SD cards I have been using. I am sending them back.

Bought four, five packs of this item in August. One disc failed with a full days of pictures a few months ago. I assumed just bad luck. Now after spending an entire day shooting photos another disc failed. I can not recover any of the images. I am wonder if these are not knock offs and not truly SanDisk. I have been using SanDisk SD cards for many years and have NEVER had one fail. I have 35 disc. One for each day of the month. This is unacceptable.

Ordered these for the savings and am very disappointed. The reaction time started very slow and then altogether stopped working in my canon rebel. Super disappointing, a waste of time, very frustrating and actually cost more money.

DONT WORK

Beware of buying this item, they turn out to be incompatible with some devices. Like a cheap copy of the original ones and don't work properly. I was unable to record anything on this cards, just a waste of money thrown in the trash

doesnt work on trail cameras!!!!

Ordered through Amazon from Nanning 1000 power in China. It took 15 days to receive this flash card in the mail. The wording on the outside packaging and internal label on the card had discrepancies. Most telling error that this was a bogus PNY 64GB memory card was that although it was printed as 64GB, the SD nomenclature was stamped as SD-HC... should be SD-XC for cards over 32GB. It gave a "CARD ERROR" message when inserted in Olympus TG-4 camera. Amazon refunded my money!!

I just checked the capacity and it's not a 64GB. at best it's a 32 yielding in 27GBs. Horrible to sell a product with a false lable. 8-((

I bought two of this to use with my Pentax 645z camera.Straight out of the box when I inserted the card into my computer card reader I got the following message: "OS X can't repair the disk. You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can't save changes to files on the disk. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can."I thought it was very odd as the card was new, so I opened the second package and tried the second new card. Same message.Well, then I thought it's very unlikely there's actually a problem with them.Finally shoot day comes up and there I am, shooting on this card. I had 5 models to shoot individually. I wasn't very confident with the reliability of the card so I immediately uploaded the photos to my laptop as soon as I was done with each on of the models. Finally after the long day and when I had finished with the fifth model, tried to upload the photos and had no success. Computer would get stuck and crash when trying to read the files. It would still allow me to preview the photos on the lcd of the camera but I couldn't shoot any new ones onto it or do anything with the existing files.Luckily I had asked the model to wait while I uploaded the images. Had to redo the shoot on a new different brand card.Now the faulty memory card has failed completely. I get a "unable to read card" error in camera and can't format or do anything else with it.While the second one still works, I'm still getting an error message every time I plug it in. I'm not risking to use it for anything important again.My ScanDisk cards on the other hand works perfectly on the same setup.Warning, don't buy this.Thanks.

Very disappointed in this product. I purchased two of these; one seemed to work fine but my camera could not detect the other. After trying the card in multiple computers, I conceded that I had just gotten a lemon. Amazon promptly sent me a replacement. Just yesterday, I pulled one of these out of my camera (wish I had marked which was the other original and which was the replacement), with the camera claiming there were (roughly) 740 photos on disk, and put the card into my computer's reader. There were no files on disk. I put the disk back in the camera, and the camera could not recognize the disk. I have been using other brands of cards in my computer and camera for quite some time without any issue, so I can only assume this product is problematic.It is possible I am the only one who has had this issue (I have not read the many reviews). Just wanted to share my experience in case others have had similar issues so that customers can be aware. I'm certainly not upset with Amazon, but these cards have let me down the the extent that I likely will not purchase PNY in the future.

I've used this at 3 basketball games in my 6D. It stopped working during the 4th game. The card worked for about 3 weeks total. I have tried almost everything and cannot get it to work again.

I do a lot of video production... It demands reliable, high quality equipment. For years I have used SANDisk products and have never had an issue. Recently I went with PNY because of the transfer speed and supposed ruggedness etc. My cards are not put through rough conditions... In fact, the cards are always in one of three places: Stored in a Pelican SD case, In the cameras, In a reader for transfers. For applications such as weddings, there simply is not an option to retake shots because of failures, which is a reason I run a backup solid state device on the cameras as well. After switching to the PNY product, I finally had a chance to restore data from the SSL device due to the failure of this SD card. The card cannot be seen or mounted from any device and that data is now lost. This brand will not be on my approved vendor list starting now. I would like the product replaced however... after all... I paid for it. An email to PNY about this issue was replied to with the quoted text below. The links only take you to the legal writings of the products. For warranty items, there is a link on those pages that directs you to PNY.Com. Not too useful. Keep in mind that PNY advertises a "lifetime" warranty for this product - What this means is that it is only good for the time in which the device is being sold. Once the product goes off the shelf, so does your warranty. The other PNY SD cards that I had purchased are still working, but I am never again going to use them for a production application. I hope this review helps someone who is considering this product."Thank you for contacting PNY Technical Support.First I need to inform you that PNY does not perform data recovery nor has the software to do so. What I can suggest is to do a websearch for data recovery software or services.As for the warranty:Standard size cards – Lifetime, Details are at the link belowhttp://www.pny.com/File%20Library/Support/PNY%20Products/Warranties/Flash%20Memory%20Cards/Flash-Media-2-21-13_v1.pdfMicroSD cards – 1 Year, Details are at the link belowhttp://www.pny.com/File%20Library/Support/PNY%20Products/Warranties/Flash%20Memory%20Cards/Micro-SD-Warranty-2-21-13_v1.pdfRegards,JanTechnical Support"