I'm hoping the techno gurus amongst you can point me in the right direction please.

I'm after a 32gb micro sd card that really is 32gb not 'up to' 32gb which means 1.46gb or whatever! Its for my music on my phone. My current one is 16gb and getting full and keeps needing formatting after I reboot the phone. It works for a few days and then I have to format it and recopy my music on to it.

My phone can support a 32gb card. Presumably I need a class 10?

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good eBay seller whose cards are reasonable and a reliable make please. And one that is as large in gb as it claims please!!!

Thanks in advance

Adam

This is the problem with fake memory cards, and a prime example not to buy them off eBay.

I got my Samsung 32gb direct from amazon, not one of their market place sellers

none will be as large in Gb as they state due to the way the sizes are allocated. Base 2 and Base 10, or summat like that

 

You need to know your bits from your bytes. The higher the stated storage capacity, eg 500GB (Gigabytes) is actually 465.7 GiB (Gibibytes) , the less the actual capacity. Manufacturers like to up the numbers and round 'em off IMO.

 

It's like with download speeds; people think they get X megabytes downloads, it's not, it X megabits.

Thanks. I don't mind the 2 per cent or so rounding, its the ones that say they are up to 32 and then a fraction of that I want to avoid.

Gadgetman, thanks, did you save the seller at all?

Avoid Ebay and buy via Amazon; I picked up some class 10, 32Gb, Samsung "Metal" cards for under a tenner each.

 

PS, you only really need class 4/6/10 for video, or for the "once in a blue moon" when you want to upload the whole 32Gb with new music; any old class 1, 2, or 4 will do, and some of the better "branded"  class 1  cards I have had are just as fast as class 4/6

Thanks. I don't mind the 2 per cent or so rounding, its the ones that say they are up to 32 and then a fraction of that I want to avoid.

Gadgetman, thanks, did you save the seller at all?

Amazon.Co.Uk

Avoid any that say "fulfilled by..." and list anyone other than amazon

Another one for Amazon, I ordered one off eBay for my dash cam because it was £3 cheaper then Amazon so I thought why not..

It turned up without a case, just thrown in an envelope. I managed to return it because it was listed as brand new and in its original packaging when it wasn't, got a refund and then ordered off Amazon, no issues.

It was a SanDisk Class 10 Micro SD card

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Thanks for your help all

eBuyer is another good place to buy electronic items too.  I've ordered tons of stuff from there (including the PC I'm typing on now!) and they've been faultless thus far.

eBuyer is another good place to buy electronic items too. I've ordered tons of stuff from there (including the PC I'm typing on now!) and they've been faultless thus far.

Not knocking eBay at all, it's a great site

It's just bad for things like memory cards as 90% of them are cheap Chinese copies. Even though there is nothing wrong with Chinese copies either, but with memory cards, the last thing you want is to lose all of your data, so it's worth paying the extra couple of pounds for a proper one.

Same with external hard drives, etc.

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There is a huge industry in China of buying old, out-of-date Flash drives - memory cards, USB drives, even SSDs; and repackaging them to look like newer versions with a higher capacity.

 

I remember seeing a news report of fake SSD drives; you opened them up and there was a USB thumb drive glued inside and wired up to the connectors.

 

I have not had a fake capacity issue yet, but I did buy some where the SD plastics were too soft and fell apart after a few months, oh and one that failed within minutes; so I only buy branded from reputable (online) shops now.

Thanks again. Can I use a u1 marked card as if it were a class 10 in a Samsung S3? Seems to conflicting advice on an internet search...

I've always used mymemory.co.uk:

 

http://www.mymemory.co.uk/

 

They have a sale on Sandisk products at the moment.