I needed to buy a microSD card for recording high definition video on a budget “GoPro” style action camera, the MUSON MC1, to use as a Dash Cam.
The price of SD Cards has plummeted in recent years. I remember buying my first 500mb SD Card in the early 2000s, which cost around £90 - nowadays SD Cards can hold more than 200Gb of memory, which is staggering compared to the early days.
In recent years SD Cards almost became obsolete as most high-end smartphones from Android to iPhone and even the lesser spotted Windows Phone, only offerd internal storage and no microSD slots. However expandable memory has made something of a comeback with newer handsets as they can store an extraordinary amount of data.
So what makes a great microSD card? In my opinion it is capacity and a fast read/write speed.
The SanDisk Ultra is a Class 10 microSD card, but what does that mean?
Well, put simply, it transfers data at a minimum of 10 MB/s. But this is the minimum speed, so you can expect faster transfer speeds.
Why the SanDisk Ultra?
£9.99 for 32GB and it writes data fast enough for even the most demanding tasks today. The SanDisk Ultra turned out to be an easy pick for three reasons.
1) It's as faster and cheaper than some other Class 10 cards.
2) The SanDisk brand has a name you can trust and overwhelmingly positive customer reviews.
3) The SanDisk Ultra will handle pretty much anything you can throw at it, including 4K video files.
The SanDisk Ultra is the most popular SD Card on Amazon with 1,978 other customer reviews averaging 4.6 out of 5, and 1,596 5 Star Reviews.
The SanDisk Ultra microSD was one of those rare purchases where I didn't have to research the SD Card market to find the best in my budget. I've been using SanDisk for over a decade, so know that they are fast, reliable and suitable for use in a smartphone or camera and at £9.99 it won't break the bank.
The SanDisk comes in Amazon's Stress Free Packaging so there is no fiddling with hard shell plastic covers. It also comes with a full size SD adapter. An extra bonus is the SanDisk Ultra lifetime warranty, so should it fail or corrupt, SanDisk will replace it.
To summarise, this is a superb SD Card at a great price and lifetime warranty so should anything go wrong, SanDisk will replace it.
I bought this Kingston SD Memory Card from Digital Tec and it's working like a charm. I bought it as you suggest to buy class 10 card. It really fast as compared to class 6 cards. Thanks for your guidance.
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