Fastest (and most reliable) SD card brand?

Sumanji · 4 Jan 2013 at 03:41

Hey,

What SD cards are people using in their phones? I'm looking for the "best" brand in terms of speed and reliability.

Sandisk Class 10 32GB cards with "up to 30MB/s read speed" seem widely available for ~£25.

Are they a good bet, or are there any quicker cards on the market?

Cheers,

Su

Danthus · 4 Jan 2013 at 07:24

I have always used Sandisk in various devices.

Just be careful where you get them from as there are loads of fakes out there, buy from a reputable retailer.

Tunney · 4 Jan 2013 at 07:26

SanDisk are by far and away the gold standard in SD cards. Why? Because everyone else tries to cut corners and not implement the SD specification properly.

Myshra · 4 Jan 2013 at 08:53

If it helps, Sandisks are what networks use when they test handsets as they are reference grade - just don't buy on ebay.

Rusty! · 4 Jan 2013 at 08:55

SanDisk Extreme Pro are pretty much the nuts at the moment, but thier Ultra range is also better than Class 10 (they are both the new UHS standard).

TheOtherOption · 4 Jan 2013 at 11:57

I recently picked up a SanDisk 32gb class 10 UHS micro sdhc card for my phone and it's been brilliant - didn't cost earth either!

BigRazer93 · 4 Jan 2013 at 12:32

I recently picked up a twin pack of Sandisk class 10 cards for my DSLR camera for £20. Two 16GB cards, the price was good considering it was instore.

Couldn't recommend them enough, fast speeds, and get just more than 30m/s when transferring pictures over.

Sumanji · 7 Jan 2013 at 00:31

Nice - SanDisk it is then

Aedus · 7 Jan 2013 at 01:01

Cant go wrong with SanDisk

loltim · 7 Jan 2013 at 08:10

i heard sandisk are alright

ntemples1 · 7 Jan 2013 at 08:45

Sandisk Sandisk Sandisk

Eliot · 7 Jan 2013 at 11:16

How about that other one.....Um.
yeah Sandisk. I heard they are good

Finguz · 7 Jan 2013 at 19:43

Transcend are faster and also have a lifetime warranty....

Macky · 7 Jan 2013 at 20:20

KINGSTON!

Fallen god · 7 Jan 2013 at 21:56

Samsung and Sandisk have always been great to me, always offering high quality and great speeds.

silversurfer · 14 Jan 2013 at 12:44

Im just wondering if a 45mb read speed sandisk sdhc card will work on a 2 year old laptop. I would guess so but its not usb3 which I think kinda relates to the bus capacity for sdhc also, hopefully compatible anyhow

Lexar was the only other one I thought about

Myshra · 14 Jan 2013 at 13:47

Assuming you mean full SD card sized here, 45MByte/s is outside USB 2 spec yes. This does not matter for comatibility reasons though, the devices slow down to the rate at which they are both happy.

Sumanji · 6 Jun 2013 at 22:21

The SanDisk Ultra 32GB card I bought in January just died

I was using it in my Motorola Razr HD - over the past few weeks I kept getting lots of "SD Card removed unexpectedly" errors, then all of a sudden, poof, it is not recognised any more. The card does not even work in a PC via an adapter (shows as 31MB capacity, and PC cannot format it).

SanDisk RMA process is horrendous :mad:

I've just ordered a Sony 16GB card for roughly the same price... not made in China like all the other crappy cards, so hopefully it won't kill itself

kona786 · 6 Jun 2013 at 22:23

You didn't fancy this bad boy:

Sumanji · 6 Jun 2013 at 23:20

Haha, I read that a lot of phones have problems with 64GB cards?