SD card

[Petiebear]

I want to purchase a 64Gb card for my P$. Is any kind of SD micro card OK??
I see some for $20 and some for $100. What's the difference, and which one do I need.

Thanks in advance

 

[msinger]

I have a list of memory cards that are known to work well here.

 

[Darren Roach]

Do not buy cheap slow read/write cards, they will not work. You are going to need a hi speed read/ write card of at least a class 10

 

[chadrob30]

Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB

 

[Petiebear]

Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB

That's the one I ordered, but it only says class 3

 

[Darren Roach]

That might be a series 3 not a class 3

 

[DJI-Polar]

Saw these on sale at Best Buy today so I grabbed 2. Seems like a great deal.

SanDisk - Extreme PLUS 64GB microSDXC UHS-I Class U-1 Memory Card - Red/Gold

The description says Class 1 but in actuality they are U-3. If you follow the model number to Sandisk's website, they are indeed U-3.

 

[John Locke]

You may want to consider 32GB and buy twice as many. This minimizes your risk of losing video by removing the card from the drone more often. With 1080 you'll get about 5 flights. With 4K you'll get one flight out of the SD card. Most people are recording 1080 due to the simplicity and ease of editing, and it satisfies most hobby use. However if you need 4K, doing commercial work, 32GB is ideal to discipline yourself to replace the SD each flight. Cards will fail, I've had it happen. Minimizing your loss is key.

I've always used the Extreme Sandisk devices, 90MB read, 60MB writes, and they have always worked good. However I recently learned Samsung Pro Select devices have 95MB read and 90Mb writes. That's what I'm using now.

 

[DJI-Polar]

You may want to consider 32GB and buy twice as many. This minimizes your risk of losing video by removing the card from the drone more often. With 1080 you'll get about 5 flights. With 4K you'll get one flight out of the SD card. Most people are recording 1080 due to the simplicity and ease of editing, and it satisfies most hobby use. However if you need 4K, doing commercial work, 32GB is ideal to discipline yourself to replace the SD each flight. Cards will fail, I've had it happen. Minimizing your loss is key.

I've always used the Extreme Sandisk devices, 90Mb read, 60Mb writes, and they have always worked good. However I recently learned Samsung Pro Select devices have 95Mb read and 90Mb writes. That's what I'm using now.

Thanks for the tip. I bought these because they were on sale and it was a great deal (in my opinion). They're 95MB read and 90MB write, and supposedly hold 200 minutes of 4K UHD video. I'm in the habit of removing the SD card after each flight or session and transferring the content to my computer or an external hard drive anyways, so the larger size is more convenient for me.

 

[John Locke]

I've never had an SD card not work with my Phantom due to write speed, maybe I'm lucky. Almost any will work I think. Given that most Phantoms write to the card at 60Mb/sec (that megabits) and that equates to about 7.5MB/sec (Megabytes), most any card on the market can handle that write speed. Even the P4 and Inspire2 writing to the card at 100Mb/sec. this is only 12.5MB/sec. So even at 60MB/sec write speed on the SanDisk cards, those are plenty fast enough. Get the best buy you can.

I typically buy the fastest speed so it transfers to my PC fast as possible. I'm impatient that way.