Hardware Is there any difference between the cheaper and more expensive SD card brands?

[Deleted User]

I'm going to hack my Wii U and need to buy a 64 GB SD card to back up the system. The image below is an extract from a catalogue of a popular PC parts store which I will buy the SD card from.

I want a card that has a good transfer rate and won't break in 13 months time.

 

[Kleyon]

Kingston class 10 cards seems to have lower read/write rate than Sandisk Ultra, even if both are class 10 ! So I think that's where the difference is with other cards too.

For example basic Class 10 Kingston is about 45Mb/s at read when Sandisk Ultra is about 80Mb/s...

Edit : I always bet on Sandisk cards personally, they are reliable and have good warranty on it (Kingston isn't that bad too I think, but need to check transfer rate & warranty).

 

[wolfmankurd]

Not too much, your biggest risk with SD cards are counterfeits or rejects being sold. Internally the differences are generally in wear leveling.

 

[Deleted User]

Umm.... so what is the difference (if any) between the below?

Sandisk Ultra (SDSQUNB)
Sandisk Extreme (XVF)
Sandisk Ultra (QUA)
High endurance Sandisk SDSDQQ
Sandisk Ultra (QNC)
Sandisk (SDSDQUAN)

I wish there was a recommended option for people like me who just want something that fucking works.

 

[RandomUser]

I wish there was a recommended option for people like me who just want something that fucking works.

Technically they all just works for the most part, just as long as they are genuine and not from the bad lot. Only reason to worry about speed is when a device requires it, mainly 4K video camcorder will require speed and the Sandisk extrema should be used. Class number means nothing this day and age, so look for the write throughput. Also look for something like UHS III or something like that if a device requires or use it. While UHS I will work in devices that supports UHS III, and the same for device that doesn't support UHS III SD card, the UHS III SD card will work in the device regardless, just will not make full use of the SD card speed capability. So again, they do just works. For example you can use UHS III or higher speed SD cards like 100MB write speed in a Nintendo . However the will not be able to write 100MB to the SD card, and that isn't the SD card fault, it is limited by the hardware of the .

EDIT:
Just realized I necrobump this old thread. Sorry about that folks.

 

[notimp]

There are only 6 notable manufacturers of NAND flash in the world. Samsung owns a third of that market and is the largest one.

https://www.statista.com/statistics...ng-nand-flash-memory-manufacturers-worldwide/

If you go by brands, which is not recommended, you buy Samsung. Because (in the consumer space) they almost always have the best, or second to best price performance ratio.

Issue is, that even Samsung, even in the (most popular) same line uses different write speed flash for different Micro SD card sizes.

So if you are going by brand, you'll always be two steps away from the actual answer.

Good luck.

edit: Oh, and I was almost kicked from forums in the past for calling people stupid, because their decision processes were based around brands.

Brands, produce whats called 'product generations', knowing that there is limited innovation in any space - what every brand resorts to usually are product cycles. Where - f.e. one year you innovate - and the other year you push old crap out to the normies, to get a better margin. Hence - if you trust in brands, you have already lost.

Slight exception. If you are Samsung and you own a third of a market with only six competitors far below you in terms of market penetration, but with you already having lost market share from a few years ago, you outvalue them every year, on the most popular product, so they eat dirt, trying to catch up.

Now thats brand values you can trust in..