SanDisk High Endurance MicroSD Memory Card

[Crazy Dave]

So I came across this while trying to find suitable memory cards.
At £20 it is 3 x the price of a cheapo brand 32gb card and £7 more than a regular Sandisk 32GB SdHC .
Sandisk say "Built for and tested in harsh conditions: Temperature-proof, shock-proof, waterproof"
What do you think? worth the money? or do most people just get the regular ones, backup to HD & re-use?

[Warin]

Regular. But a good brand.
Given the price drops and increasing capacity.

Usually when I first purchase the device .. the cost are such that I buy cards at about half the max capacity of the device (most memory for the $).

After a year or two or five the prices drop and the max capacity goes up. About this time I buy the cards at the max capacity of my device (now probably the best bang for $).

Another few years and the prices drop and the max capacity goes up again. The max capacity of my device is now at the minimum size card that you can buy . I'll usually buy a few more cards .. depending on my expectation of the devices life.

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Some cards have a warranty .. my latest ones are 10 years. In 5 years I'll probably be buying the smallest capacity cards at the same capacity as these ones. So .. in 15 years time I will have run out of warranty.

[Crazy Dave]

Originally Posted by Warin

Regular. But a good brand.
Given the price drops and increasing capacity.

Usually when I first purchase the device .. the cost are such that I buy cards at about half the max capacity of the device (most memory for the $).

After a year or two or five the prices drop and the max capacity goes up. About this time I buy the cards at the max capacity of my device (now probably the best bang for $).

Another few years and the prices drop and the max capacity goes up again. The max capacity of my device is now at the minimum size card that you can buy . I'll usually buy a few more cards .. depending on my expectation of the devices life.

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Some cards have a warranty .. my latest ones are 10 years. In 5 years I'll probably be buying the smallest capacity cards at the same capacity as these ones. So .. in 15 years time I will have run out of warranty.

Sandisk Ultra Class 10 16GB is £10 from Argos
Cheaper from ebay but might not be OEM

[eurasiaoverland]

I've always bought my memory cards from these guys. Legit stuff.

https://www.7dayshop.com/brand/sandisk/filter/sdhc

[g6snl]

I would wonder how harsh the conditions are most people put cards through? Assuming most people treat them as I do by keeping "in a safe place" while travelling. Personally I would rather spend the extra money on more good quality cards. Should I decide to boil my cards on a regular basis ........ perhaps then consider the Military spec ones

[backofbeyond]

How many people here have had problems with memory cards? I've been using them professionally since 2000 in all sorts of (mainly UK) conditions - nice sunny days (a few of those), rain up to thunderstorm level, heat, cold etc and my biggest problem with them has been loss rather than failure - particularly SD cards. Second biggest has been physical damage (accidentally crushed or bent) - again SD cards.

I had a couple of early model compact flash cards partially fail on me (much to my clients delight who them proceeded to sue me for not being able to provide 7 shots out of 300 on a shoot) but since about 2003 I've not had anything fail. Paranoia about failure has been a far bigger problem than failure itself.

But - like Warin suggests, I only buy good quality brands and capacities that have been on the market for a while.

[g6snl]

That's actually my biggest fear - loosing one or more, the one with that video of a me being chased on my bike by Panda riding a Tiger through Pyongyang main street. It hasn't actually happened yet...........

Hence my double copy storage method. I copy contents to a device ( phone ) then to a clean card, giving me two cards with the same contents, stored in 2 locations while travelling.

But yes totally agree these little things have been through some grim conditions and not missed a beat. I have even slept on one briefly, which stuck to my shoulder, then covered it in sun tan lotion and insect repellent, it was fine and still is.

[backofbeyond]

The cameras I use for work have (mostly) double card slots so you can write each picture file to two cards of two different types at the same time. Short of real time wi-fi-ing a third copy to a laptop and then into the cloud that's about as secure as it gets.

It's the smaller cameras that I take on trips that cause card problems though. There's not the same shoot-process-deliver-archive (or any combination thereof) pressure as there is on a paying job so it can be weeks before you're trying to remember where you put the full cards.

Generally I don't like buying cards that are the same visually as cards I already have. It's easy to get full and empty muddled up, format a full one on auto pilot when distracted and lose the lot. I've done it with cards (came close to doing it yesterday) and even did it a couple of times with film (put a used roll of file back in the camera and shot it again) when under pressure and distracted.

The little micro SD cards (the tiny little ones used in phones /action cams / drones etc) are really easy to lose, particularly if you're on location somewhere. Annoyingly, the last one I lost still had the camera attached to it.