AmazonBasics 8 GB microSDHC Class 10 Flash Memory Card with SD Adapter

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Okay so I purchased this MicroSD card from Amazon because I thought it was a great deal, and a class 10 card is hard to come by without having to pay a good chunk of money for it. I originally bought this card because I purchased a Samsung PL-120 Camera from Amazon and would need one. I got the card within a week and it looked good. I tested it on my cell phone and it worked just fine. When I finally got my camera via UPS I put the card in and started playing around with the features and everything seemed just great. Then I decided to try and record some video with the camera and that's when I noticed something was wrong. When playing back videos on the camera I notices a strange noise coming from the speaker, it sounded like a movie real. I thought this was some kind of feature of the camera that wasn't described, but I couldn't find any kind of setting to turn it off, this is when I started to realize that something was up.. I transffered the noisy... Read more

I bought two of these, both of them are sketchy. Almost every time i look in my pictures, they're gone, until i eject and reinsert the card. I've tried formatting them as well as windows error checking (which says they're fine) and nothing helps.

Would NOT buy again, completely unsatisfied.

The AmazonBasics SD card is a reasonable value for a fast, small memory card. It includes an adapter to allow the card to be used with full-size SD slots. And it includes a small plastic case that nicely holds both the adapter and the SD card.

The main reason to get a fast memory card is to allow a camera to write to the card at the speed that it produces data. If the camera can't store the data as fast as it's being generated, it can cause a variety of problems - you might not be able to capture what you wanted to.

There are generally two instances where a fast SD card might come in handy:

- Video cameras - at 24 - 30 frames per second, the data rate can be very high, especially at higher resolutions

- Still cameras with high megapixel counts used in burst or RAW mode can also generate data at a high rate

It's a good idea to get a card that's rated at a faster speed than you need, as memory cards might not always perform... Read more