runamuck wrote:
I posted a few dsays ago about INDMEM not honoring their warranty. I posted it on Chicago Area Camera Club Assn. I got this fom a member. Now I have a $300 card that I am afraid to use.
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"I do not know anything about the brand. However, I do know something about the ProGrade brand. A lot of you may already know this. If I did not
When a Chinese firm bought out Lexar several years ago (6+?), they fired the US engineers. Those engineers got together and started the ProGrade brand. All the cards are extensively tested before they are released.
This is according to Jeff Cable, photographer for the US Olympic team. He used to be a Lexar employee before the buyout. Left them to go private and also be a team photographer. So he knows the engineers that started ProGrade.
According to him, cards and readers are the only products they sell."
the Chinese firm is called Longsys and they purchased it from Micron the US owner at the time. https://www.longsys.com/
the rest of his story about ProGrade is pretty much accurate
if you have been using it continue to do so. they generally die on startup or format. never buy a name you are not familiar with and has no recognized US operations/distribution.
i am getting $60 back from micron for one of their XQD cards under the then Lexar brand when they owned it that physically failed. a well-used 64GB card i paid $99 back in 2016. just took a little digging and contacted the current Lexar people*. ($60 i didn't have before
