SD Cards - Sandisk vs Kingston Reliability

Hi,

I know that this has been discussed before, but when I search on Google, the threads are over 2 years old, which is talking about old technology. In addition to that, there are plenty of people that express their opinion, but have only ever used one brand.

I was hoping to get some more up to date information on what people have found more reliable between Sandisk and Kingston SD cards by people who have used both.

The reason I ask is that I have both. I only have 1 Kingston, and 5 Sandisk cards, although recently I have had 2 of the Sandisk cards fail.I bought more Sandisk's because I was originally of the impression they were the best as far as reliability.

Could people who have owned, and used both comment on their experience within the last 12 months (so we're not talking old technology) please comment as to whether you have had any fail, and share your experiences here?

Cheers

Adza
I have just had a Sandisk ultra 30mb/sec 32gb card fail, perhaps different circumstances to normal failures on this gear forum. It was in a camera on the windscreen of the wifes car, sh had just had the windscreen replaced and on trying to set up the camera again it indicated there was no sd card installed . Nothing will now read the card, no computer or other camera, its approx 1 year old. I dont know how long ago it failed, if you have a safety camera in your car you might want to check it still functions.
 
If you're trying to format an SD card on a PC, you might try the SD Association formatting tool . If it was a Sandisk, maybe they, too, have a tool(?)
 
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I've now had 3 sandisk sdcards die. No experience with Kingston. Have had zero Lexar cards die and is no the only kind I will buy. FYI
 

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