I just realised I need to order a 64 Gb microSD card for my new phone. So advice please on what class of card? I'm guessing I don't need to go very high speed - as I do for my cameras.
Whatever you do, don't buy this
Purchased a SanDisk a year ago and my Samsung Note II began crashing recently. Could not figure it out. Thought it was a rogue app. Turned out the card was unmounting itself.
My friends, who bought the same card with my recommendation, also had unmounting problems.
Then, when I finally read more Amazon reviews, I saw a pattern.
There is actually debate going on as to whether the Samsung motherboard in these phones supports Class 10 microSD cards.
Probably the reason the majority of those of us that have a 64GB card(especially this one) :
Capacity & price. Most of us caught this on sale @ AMAZON/e-Bay/BEST BUY/RADIO SHACK for under $50.The speed is just a BTW, although some here no doubt appreciate the added speed vs a lower class card.
If you are now gun-shy about getting this particular card, SAMSUNG sells their own version, which I would assume would be compatible (more so?) than the SANDISK.
If something goes wrong, w/either the phone or card, at least you've cornered SAMSUNG & given them no room to play the finger-pointing game.
Amazon.com: Samsung Electronics 64GB Pro microSDXC Extreme Speed (UHS-1) Class 10 Memory Card (MB-MGCGB/AM): Computers & Accessories
So you have the samsung pro card? Might you post some benchmark results on the read/write speeds with the N3? I was using "SD Tools" from Play, and run some tests on the Sandisk Ultra 64GB class 10/UHS-1. Was getting just under 10MB/s write, and ~23MB/s read. Would love to see comparable numbers from the Samsung Pro.
Exactly the card I ordered and installed.
As a test of transfer speed, I put Star Wars Blu-ray movie on it. That's a full 1920-1080 resolution movie, in luscious stereo, to see if it would play without any pauses or hiccups.
My experience? Perfect playback. And if it'll play THAT back, I'm confident that any media you throw at it will have no problem. Now I can move all 6 Star Wars movies from internal memory to the card with no concerns at all, freeing up vital internal storage
By adding the 64 GB card are you getting a total of 96 GB's of storage space now... 32 GB internal and 64 GB on the card?
Routine backups to the PC are important as well, both are techniques to mitigate loss in the event of card failure
I wish. It's really bugging me it's not possible.
You can use a "Micro USB OTG cable" and than backup your Note to a usb stick.
You can use a "Micro USB OTG cable" and than backup your Note to a usb stick.
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