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Samsung PRO SD Cards are great

Started Sep 8, 2016 | User reviews
bancika
bancika Regular Member • Posts: 421
Samsung PRO SD Cards are great
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I've used a 16GB card for over a year now and after getting the NX500 it started filling up much quicker, so I got a 64GB U3 card.  Compared to the competition, they are affordable and very fast. Write speed is what counts and 80MB/s ensures that I never have to wait for the buffer to be transferred to the card. I also own a Kingston UHS-1 card that says 45MB/s on it (write speed is probably much less) and it takes around 5 seconds after shooting a 3-shot exposure bracketing for all three raw files to be written. During that time you cannot shoot, so it's very annoying. That never happens with Samsung.

The one I got is micro SD card that goes with an adapter, but there's also a full-sized SD card available. I just get whatever is cheaper at a given time. They also make a PRO+ and PRO select versions that are slightly faster (90MB/s vs 80MB/s), but I haven't tried any of them.

64GB PRO card can be found for around 30 bucks, which I think is a fair price.

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Lawrence Norman
Lawrence Norman Regular Member • Posts: 437
Re: Samsung PRO SD Cards are great

Hello Bancika,

Thank you for sharing your Samsung SD memory-card experience.

This earlier [but pertinent] thread might prove informative:  https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/58028739

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