Tuesday, 7 February 2017

How To Choose Best MicroSD card for Android Device

# Type of MicroSD Card

* SDSC or Secure Digital Standard Capacity:- Storage Capacity range from 128MB to 2GB and utilizes up the FAT16 system.
* SDHC or Secure Digital High Capacity - Storage Capacity range from 4GB to 32GB and utilize up the FAT16 system. Not compatible with the backward device that only supports the SD card.
* SDXC or Secure Digital Extended Capacity - Storage Capacity range 64GB to 2TB and utilizes up the exFAT16 system. Remember that these types of cards are highly advance and mid-range or low-end devices won't accept these or work perfectly.

Branded MicroSD Card : Never ever go for any cheap quality and unknown branded MicroSD Card, Always choose up the one from the reputable brands and only their original products. Fake always ditch!
Storage Capacity: Check your Device compatibility for the maximum rate of the storage space of the MicroSD card that its supports. Prefer to use up the MicroSD card with a Slightly lower value of storage spaces as this would definitely be helpful for you device to handle up that much space with ease.
Data Transfer Speed : Different MicroSD Cards have a different value of data transfer rate and for the best performance on your Android device you should prefer only to go for the highest compatible data transfer speed.

# Take a look at the different class of MicroSD card Speed rates:-
Class-2-cards : The slowest MicroSD cards, better avoid these!
Class-4 and 6 Cards : Could be used for basic usage of storing photos, images or low-grade videos etc. These cards have slightly good data transfer rate but are definitely not meant for the Android devices. Try to avoid These types of MicroSD cards too!
Class-10-cards : Better option for taking Full HD videos (1080p) at a maximum of 60fps. This could be considered as the first option for your Android devices with basic quality data management but at the specifically higher speed that won't stuck all. This is generally the must to choose the type of SD card for the low end and mid end Android devices!

UHS-I Cards : The one of the fastest available of MicroSD card type with the ultimate speed of 104MB/s and the lowest speed of 35MB/s. Could be easily used for 4K videos with the frame rate of 60fps.
UHS-II Cards : The Ultimate MicroSD card in Case of speed, the maximum speed up to 312MB/s and the possible lowest speed of 152MB/s. Could be easily used for 4K videos with the frame rate of 60fps.

Written by Ankit Goyal