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14 Best Memory Cards for Digital Cameras & Smartphones

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Samsung Evo Class 10 Memory Card

These days, your smartphone and digital camera are only as good as the quality and writing speed of their memory cards, so if you care about high rate photos and videos, getting a good memory card is a must.

So which one should you get? You can do the research on your own but that can be overwhelming at times. We recommend browsing through our list of 14 best memory cards for digital cameras and smartphones. You’ll probably find what you’re looking for:

SanDisk Ultra microSDHC UHS-I Memory Card

The SanDisk Ultra memory card comes in the popular 32GB and 64GB versions, but you can also go up to 256GB, obviously paying more for more space.

Samsung MicroSD EVO Memory Card

The Samsung EVO memory card comes in four different size versions: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.

SanDisk Class 4 SDHC Memory Card

The two most popular versions of the SanDisk Class 4 memory card are the 32GB and 64GB.

SanDisk Ultra Class 10 SDHC Memory Card

The SanDisk Ultra class 10 Memory card is an excellent choice for compact to mid-range point and shoot cameras, and comes with a 10-year limited warranty. It’s capacity goes up to 128GB.

Samsung EVO Select Micro SDHC Memory Card

The Samsung EVO Select Memory Card works with pretty much everything: Cell phones, smartphones, android tablets, tablet PCs and more. Besides the regular capacities, it has a 256GB version.

SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC Flash Memory Card

The SanDisk Extreme Pro memory card takes it up a notch, reading data up to 95 MB per second, and enables a write up of up to 90 MB per season. It goes up to a 512GB capacity.

PNY Elite Performance Flash Memory Card

The PNY Elite performance flash memory card is ideal for high performance DSLR cameras and HD camcorders, especially for ultra fast action shots, sports videos and professional quality photography. It has 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB versions.

SanDisk Extreme Memory Card With Adapter

GoPro recommend the SanDisk extreme to work well with their Hero, Hero3+ and Hero4. It has 32GB and 64GB capacities.

Transcend Class 10 SDHC Flash Memory Card

There’s an option to buy the Transcend memory card with a card reader.

Samsung EVO Plus Class 10 Memory Card

The Samsung EVO+ memory card is perfect for full HD video recording and high resolution pictures. This is the 64GB version.

Kingston MicroSDHC Class 4 Memory Card

The Kingston memory card comes with an adapter, and is compliant with the SD card association 3.00 specification. It also has a 32GB card.

Sony Class 10 Memory Card

The Sony Memory Card has a write up speed of up to 70 MB per second. It’s file rescue software (downloadable) helps recover pictures and videos accidentally damages or deleted. It comes in 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256GB versions.

Lexar Professional CompactFlash Memory Card

The Lexar Professional memory card uses UDMA 7 technology to deliver a read transfer speed that’s up to 1066x, which is 160 MB per second. It has a 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256GB version.

Amplim Ultra Fast microSDXC Memory Card

A cheaper item because it isn’t a name brand, but according to reviews, it’s just as good, with its write up speed (90MB per second) excellent for an item at this price, which is currently $19.72 for the 64GB.

SanDisk’s 512GB SD Card Costs a Whooping $800

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SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC I 512GB SD Card

With great storage capacity comes great flexibility. SanDisk, one of the world’s main manufacturers of flash memory storage, has just broken another record by launching the first 512GB SD card.

The new SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card was unveiled yesterday in Amsterdam, and is expected to be available soon. The only problem with it would be the hefty price, as not many people are willing to pay $800 for an SD card, regardless of its capacity. The price is explained by the uniqueness of this product, but as SanDisk’s competitors will start developing similarly sized SD cards, the price will drop considerably.

SanDisk described it as follows: “The new offering is designed to meet the demands of industry professionals who require the most advanced gear available for shooting 4K Ultra High Definition (3,840×2,160p) video, Full HD video (1,920×1,080) and high-speed burst mode photography.”

Dinesh Bahal, VP of product marketing at SanDisk, added that “4K Ultra HD is an example of a technology that is pushing us to develop new storage solutions capable of handling massive file sizes.”

Mind you, the 512GB Sandisk SD card is about more than just storage capacity. As seen in the above picture, the card has transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s. This should come handy when transferring large 4K videos, or when the card reaches its limit and its content needs to be copied elsewhere.

Grant Petty, CEO of video post-production house Blackmagic Design, noted that “The new 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I card offers incredible speed and capacity. Our Pocket Cinema Camera customers shoot in every type of circumstance and location, and get amazing wide dynamic range RAW images capturing the brightest highlights and darkest shadows at the same time. The additional capacity of the SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I card will extend the creative freedom for our customers shooting in RAW and open up the ability to use wide dynamic range RAW files with even more productions.”

John Delaney, a senior mobile analyst from IDC, remarked that developing SD cards with great capacities is important, even though more and more people turn their attention to cloud solutions, which are often cheaper and safer: “The thing that is driving cloud storage is multiple devices usage – which solves the, ‘Where’s my stuff?’ problem: if you use cloud storage for everything, whatever device you have with you can be used to access your content. So far there’s still a strong preference for local storage. People just feel more in control and more able to rely on being able to access the content when they literally know where it is. Storing in the cloud means you literally don’t know where it is.”

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