Sony Professional XQD G-Series 128GB Memory Card (Discontinued)

This is an excellent card, and that which is required in the new Nikon Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras. It is an excellent memory card, but I have never had problems with SD cards, which are about half the price. Still, if you want a memory card for your Z7, this is the one to choose.I've now been using this card for a few months in my Z, and I love it. It is very fast, and much more solid than the SD cards. I don't know why Sony quit making the 128 and the 256, but I just purchased a new 240 meg as well. I only wish my camera held two cards as the D850 does. That way one can be devoted to jpgs and the other RAW.

The XQD format as of today is blazing fast, faster than anything I’ve used. These work fantastic in my Nikon D5 and can store 200 20MP images in seconds. I always format my cards before a shoot to ensure no file system corruption and the 128GB cards only take a couple seconds to complete this. My only concern is that the format may be taken over quickly by even faster tech cards in the near future and may be difficult to obtain soon.

I have been doing a lot of video recording with my cameras lately and this has been my go to card as a backup to my digital recorder. Works fine and I can also use it shooting sports with my D5 where there are overlapping events where it seems I never let up on the shutter. I can shoot flat out for as long as I want and the card keeps up.

This XQD card is clearly faster than aType II SD card, but I'm giving it only 4 stars because I'm only getting around 315 MB/s read speeds instead of the rated 440 MB/s. Details/environment below.I got this card to use in my Nikon D850, and it works fine. My main goal was to have faster file transfers to my iMac Pro when compared to my 64 GB UHS-II SD card (SanDisk 64GB Extreme PRO UHS-II SDXC). I also liked the higher capacity. I'm a commercial photographer. I often shoot 60-100 GB of pics and video on a shoot, and I'm often on tight deadlines, so read speed can be an issue. My type II SD card is rated at 300 MB/s and I'm getting around 243 MB/s when reading it in the internal SD card reader on my new 10-core iMac Pro, writing to the internal SSD drive. This Sony XQD card is rated at 440 MB/s read, but when reading it with the Sony MRWE90/BC1 XQD USB 3.0 Reader I'm only getting around 315 MB/s. To round these timings out, I get around 90 MB/s when reading a Type I SD card in the same machine.So, to illustrate my real world time savings, here are the average times I'm seeing when reading 64GB of pics/video from each of the 3 card types:Type I SD: 711 sec (11.85 min)Type II SD: 264sec (4.4 min)This XQD: 203 (3.4 min)As you can see, switching from Type I to Type II SD cards makes a big difference. In the above case it saved over 7 minutes, which feels like an eternity after a long shoot. The time saved by switching from a Type II SD to this XQD card is real, but less compelling, as it only saves an additional minute. My time is valuable, but it's going to take a long time to justify the additional expense of this card and reader. XQDs also have faster write times, but I was not being constrained by write times on my D850 using a Type SD card so that's moot for me. I'll keep it, but I was hoping for more. "Your mileage may vary."

Our new Nikon Z7 camera did not include the XQD memory card it needs for recording photos, so I ordered this Sony XQD card for use with it. On arrival, it was simple to open the camera, insert this card the only way it can go, close the camera, and then (using the camera menus) format the card.In the month I've had this card and camera, I've taken hundreds of photos, and used a matching Sony USB adapter to quickly and easily transfer photos from the card to my computer at home. I've also reformatted the card several times, to keep maximum space available for new photos on the camera.When buying this, I wondered what size card to get. At the time, this 128GB size offered maximum space per dollar of cost, and it seemed unlikely I'd quickly need the added storage of the 256GB version of this card. (For anyone interested, the Z7 uses about 24MB of storage per JPG file, plus about 66MB of storage per RAM (NEF) file, or 90MB when storing both (as I do.)Definitely recommended for use with the Nikon Z7.

This memory card is used in a Nikon Z 6 mirrorless camera. It processes at a very fast rate, has a high storage capacity for raw images and it is reliable. All of these attributes are a requirement for a one memory card camera like the Z 6. I am very pleased with its performance to date.

Hi, I am utterly disappointed with Sony. I have purchased the memory card which sadly does not function. Sony has not helped me to resolve the problem, nor have they showed any spirit of co-operation. My last request were not responded. It should not affect the superb service of Amazon. Amazon is always top-level service provider. Sadly cannot say the same about Sony customer services. The memory is very expensive and remains totally useless.

I’m not a fan of tech or gadget companies using some weird not fully popular standard memory card. Sony was notorious for screwing customers by shoving Memory Stick into their phones. In this case, no irony, Sony is involved in the standard, but it was Nikon shoving this into the D850 as the primary card which made me have to buy this. Expensive and no idea how long the card or the standard will last. But for now I had to buy this max capacity available expensive card. It works fine but I hate that I’ll have to buy expensive card readers just to access thus. Right now I’m having to plug the camera with the USB cable every time. Card so far is fine. Buying from Amazon was the worst part of the experience but the 3-star rating above is based on the card standard, lack of choice, need for expensive specific card readers & price.