Buying an SD card - clueless and need help

scooby75

I want to buy a 32 gb micro sd card for my Galaxy S II.

I've come across 2 options on Amazon but I'm clueless as to the difference between them or the best one to get (It's going to be used to store music mostly). Which one would be best and why the incredibly cheap price (I know there are lots of fakes around, but if it's direct from Amazon it shouldn't be fake?)

Option 1:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDSDQM-032G-microSDHC-32GB-Card/dp/B003HIWHN0/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1321176563&sr=1-1

Option 2:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexar-32GB-Micro-Speed-Reader/dp/B004BR2ZTM/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1321176563&sr=1-5

Kernel_Sanders

Do you mean why are memory cards so incredibly cheap generally, compared to a few years ago? Just before Woolworths closed, they were still offering a 128MB (I think) card for £49.99!

Im_just_careful

rather than a third party seller through Amazon.

I've had the odd fake item from Amazon 3rd party sellers (they refund jolly quickly when you ask questions though !).

Memory cards seem to suffer from fake items.

For what it is worth I've been pleased with SanDisk items when I've bought them.

bengalknights

I just bought a 32gb sandisk mini sdhc card for my phone from amazon on the above link all fine and legit.

Sandisk tend to be far more reliable than lexar.

Just remember that without having a rooted phone and using 3rd party apps you can only store videos and pics on the card and not applications or games.

savemoney

Not sure of that phone but on android phones you can move some apps to sd card if you have the right software.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd&hl=en

I got my OH a Play.com microSD card 16gb SDHC class 10 for £13.99

bengalknights wrote: »

I just bought a 32gb sandisk mini sdhc card for my phone from amazon on the above link all fine and legit.

Sandisk tend to be far more reliable than lexar.

Just remember that without having a rooted phone and using 3rd party apps you can only store videos and pics on the card and not applications or games.

paddyrg

bengalknights wrote: »

I just bought a 32gb sandisk mini sdhc card for my phone from amazon on the above link all fine and legit.

Sandisk tend to be far more reliable than lexar.

Just remember that without having a rooted phone and using 3rd party apps you can only store videos and pics on the card and not applications or games.

No, it's ok - many apps can install to SD now. There are even apps which can spot when a new app can be moved to SD the moment you install it!

neilwoods

You are also paying for the classification of the card as well. The sandisk is a class 4 card, whereas the Lexar is class 10. The higher the classification the faster the transfer speed is (4 - 4MBs 10 - 10MBs)

If for just music and data storage then the sandisk is fine, if wanted for HD camcorder then you would go for the Lexar.

bengalknights

paddyrg wrote: »

No, it's ok - many apps can install to SD now. There are even apps which can spot when a new app can be moved to SD the moment you install it!

On the S2 everything that you want put to SD card goes on the internal SD card as default without the use of a 3rd party app or the internal/external switch command.

scooby75

Thanks to everyone. I'm going to go for the Lexmark.