SDHC cards

[ef37a]

I am looking to buy a couple of biggys but the price/GB ratios seem crazy!

Listed on Amazon is a 256G card for about £16 whereas another brand is half the capacity and twice the price!

I am sure Amazon are not selling total **** and I can easily get a refund if they are but I would like to know why the big differences?

Note, I want 'capacity' over speed. The cards will be used to dump files from a hard drive and then periodically transferred to an external 2TB spinner.

Dave.

[The Elf]

Can't comment on the Amazon ones, but I usually get mine from Asda - cheap enough and work fine for everything I need.

[Humf]

I must admit memory isn’t something I skimp on. I’m terrified by the potential for data loss.

I buy the 128gb SanDisk extreme ones, currently £24.99 on Amazon. Have had a few from Pink Noise with the Delkin Devices brand name which seem fine.

A thing I hear quite often from photographers and videographers is it’s better to use smaller capacity and keep feeding them into the device. That way any loss only affects that card. I’m pushing that with 128gb cards and should probably go smaller but I must admit, filming mostly 1080p, i can survive on one card for ages and I do like one less thing to worry about carrying around...

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[Hugh Robjohns]

The price is generally related to the speed (and also the longevity).

[DGL.]

Also some cards have special properties, I.e. the ones designed for dashcams are more expensive because they have to cope with being constantly written to.

Personally so long as the card is not being used in a demanding application then any card from a decent brand (I.e. Kioxia/Toshiba, SanDisk, Integral, Kingston, Samsung Etc.) should be fine.

It still amazes me that you can now get micro sd cards of 2TB capacity, even the 512gb in the old windows phone seems huge!

[OneWorld]

I must admit memory isn’t something I skimp on. I’m terrified by the potential for data loss.

I buy the 128gb SanDisk extreme ones, currently £24.99 on Amazon. Have had a few from Pink Noise with the Delkin Devices brand name which seem fine.

A thing I hear quite often from photographers and videographers is it’s better to use smaller capacity and keep feeding them into the device. That way any loss only affects that card. I’m pushing that with 128gb cards and should probably go smaller but I must admit, filming mostly 1080p, i can survive on one card for ages and I do like one less thing to worry about carrying around...

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Whatever you do, back them up. I have had such cards just stop working and present themselves to windows as 'No drive connected' even though the drive shows in the Windows Explorer. Admittedly this is a rare occurrence but as we commit more and more data to larger and larger drives, it makes sense to have backups. I am going back to the days when these drives were only 32GIG, but still a considerable amount of content to lose.

[OneWorld]

It still amazes me that you can now get micro sd cards of 2TB capacity, even the 512gb in the old windows phone seems huge!

One has to be careful with these. I bought a couple of large capacity drives from TheLongestRiverInTheWorld.Com and I plugged one in, sure enough I had 1TB available, but then started to copy some video files and after a file or 2 was copied got "No enough room left"

I found out there was a way of a drive reporting that it is xTB but in fact it is only a fraction of that size. On searching the internet I came across a blogger that had encountered this issue and had developed a utility that tested the true capacity, and sure enough, I had bought a couple of duds. Because of the relatively low price, I didn't bother with a refund, but on going back to the product page, it had vanished. I suppose if someone sets up a site selling low price items (though not suspiciously cheap) and manages to sell a 100 or so, at say £30, then that's a nice little profit the fraudster makes before he shuts up shop and rides off into the distance, knowing that most people probably won't bother asking for a refund anyway.

[The Elf]

It still amazes me that you can now get micro sd cards of 2TB capacity, even the 512gb in the old windows phone seems huge!

One has to be careful with these. I bought a couple of large capacity drives from TheLongestRiverInTheWorld.Com and I plugged one in, sure enough I had 1TB available, but then started to copy some video files and after a file or 2 was copied got "No enough room left"...

Yep, a lot of these about - particularly in Facebook ads. If it seems too good to be true...

[DGL.]

It still amazes me that you can now get micro sd cards of 2TB capacity, even the 512gb in the old windows phone seems huge!

One has to be careful with these. I bought a couple of large capacity drives from TheLongestRiverInTheWorld.Com and I plugged one in, sure enough I had 1TB available, but then started to copy some video files and after a file or 2 was copied got "No enough room left"

I found out there was a way of a drive reporting that it is xTB but in fact it is only a fraction of that size. On searching the internet I came across a blogger that had encountered this issue and had developed a utility that tested the true capacity, and sure enough, I had bought a couple of duds. Because of the relatively low price, I didn't bother with a refund, but on going back to the product page, it had vanished. I suppose if someone sets up a site selling low price items (though not suspiciously cheap) and manages to sell a 100 or so, at say £30, then that's a nice little profit the fraudster makes before he shuts up shop and rides off into the distance, knowing that most people probably won't bother asking for a refund anyway.

I was sensible, I brought an Integral 512gb sd card via Amazon themselves, I would never buy a random SD card from someone.
I only ever buy branded cards from reputable sellers.

[James Perrett]

I've been sucked in by the cheap high capacity drives which turn out to be fakes. The thing was, the one that I bought was more expensive than the obvious fakes but just a little bit cheaper than the genuine ones.

Like Sam, I've also had a couple of SD cards which have just stopped working for no apparent reason. Both were reputable brands (San Disk I think).

I now buy all my memory from

https://www.mymemory.co.uk/

who seem to have good prices for genuine products. Their own brand usb sticks are made by Integral (there are Integral stickers on the packs of 10) but I don't know who makes their SD cards.

[Dynamic Mike]

I too have had good service from mymemory for SD cards and PC memory sticks. They were very helpful when I had a Gigabyte board that wouldn't accept single and double sided RAM together. They even posted out replacements before receiving the returned items!

Some older gear prefers the older Class 4 SD cards and won't play nicely with the current Class 10 cards. I have a Mobius camera that doesn't see all of the faster cards. A bit of forum trawling and switching some cards around sorted it for me. But initially I thought that the cards were dodgy.

[Mike Stranks]

I read about the 'dodgy size' scam some years ago so choose my supplier with care and only buy name products.

My principal uses are in my Zoom F4 and high(ish)-end Canon camcorder. I guess I'm following 'One World's' advice in that I always upload the content to my heavy-duty Windows machine as soon as I can.

Where whatever I'm capturing is truly one-off then I'll use the 'write to two cards at the same time' option to give some added resilience...

... so far so good...

[ef37a]

Thanks for all the advice chaps. I think I shall chance a couple of the 256G cheapies from Zon.
I can test dump a big file on one and see the result and if there is a problem return them. I have never had a problem with the company with faulty goods, in fact they gave me a full refund for a CCTV camera even though it was a few months out of warranty.

As I said, I do not need high speed. The card is to get music files off a rather small C SSD.

Dave.

[James Perrett]

If you can use a USB stick instead of an SD card then this

https://www.mymemory.co.uk/mymemory-lit ... -blue.html

is only £14 for 256GB including delivery. It will probably be fairly slow to write to but it is from a known good source. Alternatively they do a USB3 512GB stick for £30.

[ef37a]

If you can use a USB stick instead of an SD card then this

https://www.mymemory.co.uk/mymemory-lit ... -blue.html

is only £14 for 256GB including delivery. It will probably be fairly slow to write to but it is from a known good source. Alternatively they do a USB3 512GB stick for £30.

Thanks James but we, son and I, have got USB sticks up the ying yang. They get lost and in any case son's laptop is short on USB ports. the great thing about the cards is that they are tucked away from harm. I have a 64G one in my W10 Lenovo and have used it for some 6 months to keep the hard drive clear. I recently 'empted' it to a 2TB external drive so I can start all over again.

Dave.