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$12 price drop. Newegg has the Patriot LX PSF32GSDHC10 32GB Class 10 SDHC Card for $53 - $10 rebate [Exp 2/14] = $43 with free shipping. Features minimum write speeds of 80 Mbit/s (10 MByte/s) and is compatible with all SDHC slot devices.
$43
Hmmmm... I purchased one of these two weeks ago for $58 @amazon. So far so good. It has survived a 7x zeroing out and ≈45min of video without issue thus far. No issues with my hdc-sd600k
I REALLY hate rebates, but $43 is a pretty good deal for a second/backup one.
#1 - Hows the speed?
Good for point and shoots and camcorders, but STAY AWAY from it for DSLR. I have one that worked fine for a few days then started getting odd errors on my 7d at the end of a day in Hawaii. I ended up losing an entire days worth of pics which included a helicopter ride over lava flows, standing 5' from some nice glowing lava running through a field, and lost from a crappy card. Thankfully I download at the end of every day so I didn't lose the whole trip. I ended up giving it to my son and it has worked in his little Lumix TS2 for almost a year.
If you are buying this for a DSLR, read the reviews on Amazon first. Almost every negative review is from a DSLR user, although a few bad reviews from high end camcorder users because it's not quite fast enough to handle some formats.
I ended up with 2 32gb Sandisk class 10s, while they do cost considerably more(2x at the time I bought it) than the patriot they outperform it in every aspect and have survived several hours of HD recording from the 7d and about 7000 pics without a single problem. Funny that some of us would buy a $1000 cam, $2000 lens, then skimp on the memory card and end up rendering the rest of the equipment useless. There's a reason the price on the patriot has plummeted since it came out while the Sandisk is holding relatively stable.
# 3- you didn't read the fine print:
"Keep card at least 10 feet from flowing lava at all times."