Micro SD cards are an excellent way to expand storage on mobile devices especially if the device in question, *ahem Fire 7 *ahem, has especially low amounts of storage. Sadly SD cards are not fully supported by iOS as you will have to buy an adapter to use them with any apple devices. If you want an SD card for a camera save your money and buy a "normal" bigger and slower SD card:



I bought this SD card to expand the storage of my Kindle Fire 7 and so far my experience has been generally quite positive. My experience with the SD card got off to a bad start. I paid for "frustration free packaging" yet somehow I still found quite difficult to open. In the end though the packaging is definitely not the best way to judge a product.

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Pros and Cons:



Pros:



Value: This is the second cheapest 32GB Micro SD card made by San Disk on amazon. It is definitely worth paying the premium of £2.50 over the cheaper card as the cheaper card might cause slowdowns and lag in apps. Paying the extra £2.50 gives you the biggest boost in speeds among the SD cards, from 15MB/s to 80MB/s. Also do not be tempted by this more expensive SD card

as it is an older model with slower speeds (48MB/s).



Speeds: I was pleasantly surprised to find that the SD card exceeded it's rated speed of 80 MB/s by 5MB/s. I tested it using crystal disk mark and I have included a picture of the test in the review.



Cons:



Size: I really hate the size of micro SD cards. They can be lost easily and are fiddly to put into devices. This isn't really a valid complaint as the standard is what it is and it's not going to change, but if you are bit uncoordinated (like me) then it can be quite hard and frustrating when putting into devices.



It's not a 32GB SD card it's a 30GB SD card!: Again this is less of a complaint and more of a warning as all SD card makers are guilty of this. When you format an SD card to work with a device it takes up about 2GB (I was left with 29.7GB). So do not be surprised if it shows with 30GB of data rather than 32GB of data.



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Bottom line:

I can wholeheartedly recommend this SD card to anyone who has a device that is low on storage as it is relatively fast and cheap. Unless you are a film maker or a pro photographer you will not need an SD card any faster. .If you have an apple device here is an adapter you can buy:

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I have used a lot of technical jargon in this review so I have included a guide:

1 bit = a 1/0

1 byte = 8 bits

1 kilobyte= 1024 bytes

1 megabyte (MB) = 1024 kilobytes

1 gigabyte (GB)= 1024 megabytes

Speeds referred to in this review are the read and write speeds. (How much data it can "process" and how much data it can create (write) per second)

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