12 best memory cards

This card is useful to all owners of amateur cameras, the value of which does not exceed 50 thousand rubles. As a rule, the declared speed characteristics will be enough for such a device. The memory card is popular for several reasons. First, the cards from this line are quite cheap - you can easily find a 64-gigabyte copy for a couple of thousand rubles. Secondly, there are even 128-gigabyte cards on the shops' counters - and this amount is enough for many hours of video shooting or tens of thousands of photos. However, it should be noted that such specimens have speed characteristics slightly lower. As they say, miracles do not happen.

This memory card is not intended for installation in professional DSLRs or 4K video cameras. Her lot is to be in a modest compact camera or stored as a backup storage medium. The lack of support for high speed affected the price. For a 16-gigabyte card they ask for a little more than five hundred rubles. For this money you get, if not the fastest, then a very reliable card. You can be sure that this media will work stably for many years.By the way, the card can even be used in amateur video cameras that write a picture with Full HD resolution - in most cases, 13 MB / s is enough for them. Data is read at a speed of 20-21 MB / s, which is a very good result.

This memory card has a proprietary blue design. Not so long ago it was a full-fledged flagship product, but now its speed performance has ceased to be a record. It should be noted that this line includes both SDHC format cards and representatives of the larger SDXC format. Unfortunately, there is a marriage among the products of the SDXC, not to mention the fact that it rarely meets the stated speed characteristics. In SDHC, such problems are extremely rare - it is a pity that their volume is limited to 32 GB. Although even on their labels there is a blatant lie. The creators promise a speed of 45 MB / s, but in practice it turns out that even reading data is a bit slower. Information is recorded at all at a speed of 18-20 MB / s. This does not allow us to recommend a Transcend TS * SDU1 card for installation in a camera capable of high-speed continuous shooting, and a video camera with a very high bitrate.

This line includes SDHC and SDXC cards. But the most popular representatives of the first type - affects the lower cost. All of these memory cards comply with the UHS-I standard. This suggests that some instances are able to record data at a maximum speed of 40-45 MB / s. More capacious copies will be pleased with a lower peak speed - at the level of 30-35 MB / s. Understandably, the guaranteed performance is noticeably lower, but it is also enough for video cameras that write a picture in Full HD resolution. The read speed varies from 60 to 80 MB / s, depending on the volume of the card purchased. Kingston has been releasing solid-state drives for a number of years, so one may not be afraid that the memory card will fail in the coming years. It is curious that at the same time such products are very inexpensive.

Do you know what the difference between + and Plus is? From the point of view of Samsung, "plus", indicated by letters, should be faster. In any case, this is true of the company's memory cards. By the way, South Koreans are now producing their own carriers exclusively in the microSD form factor. The most advantageous purchase can be considered as the senior representatives of the Evo Plus line (MB-MC * GA), the price is rather democratic, and their speed characteristics are impressive. The memory card that we recommend is perfect for a wide range of devices, ranging from a powerful smartphone to an action camera, but its full potential will be revealed when shooting video in 4K UHD format. It is noteworthy that with the reading / writing of small files, the Evo Plus copes "on 5".

Many professional photographers will always prefer a couple, or even more, smaller-capacity carriers to a single large-capacity memory card. It is easy to understand their motives - no one is immune from the troubles of various kinds. The problem is that the maximum speed, as a rule, is demonstrated by senior representatives of suitable lines. Nevertheless, we found the best memory card for a serious SLR in terms of price and quality, and it is called Samsung Pro Plus. The last generation of this family (MB-MD * G) consists so far of two devices of 32 and 64 billion bytes. But even the first of them can boast an impressive speed. True, not 100 MB / s, according to the manufacturer, but a little more than eighty.

If the memory card has to be put / taken off often, and even in haste or difficult conditions, the risk of its accidental failure is large enough. We will not guarantee that the use of Ultimate family carriers completely eliminates this possibility, but they oppose somewhat better than their competitors to bending, twisting and vibrating. True, for peace of mind, you will have to pay a little extra and lose in speed. The fastest Transcend cards have a golden black design with a multiplier of 633x. It is noteworthy that for the updated version of this family (TS * GUSDU3M) a lower maximum recording speed is announced, but the manufacturer promises that such carriers will meet the V30 class. In general, we have reliable and fast memory cards for a large number of supported devices - digital photo / video cameras and "cool" smartphones.

Transcend is one of the few companies that can provide a lifetime warranty on its own products. At least it overlaps the Transcend TS * USDHC10U1. This series includes microSDHC memory cards, which vary in size from 8 to 32 GB. These cards are characterized by increased read and write speed, as evidenced by their belonging to the UHS-I standard. Only the cost of 32-gigabyte cards is capable of scaring a little. However, for the price they still benefit from similar products manufactured by SanDisk. In short, this is the best choice if you are looking for a high-speed memory card for your smartphone, DVR or tablet. You will not throw a single extra ruble into the wind!

A good memory card for digital SLR cameras and professional video recorders of the middle class. The high-speed capabilities of this carrier allow the operator to shoot in long batches and guarantee to save the video stream with a bitrate of up to 20 MB / s (VPG-20 standard, focused on Full HD format). The maximum achievable performance is much more “weighty” - 120 and 60 megabytes per second in read and write modes, respectively. Like all similar products of the Taiwanese company, the Premium family of cards have built-in error correction technology (ECC), which allows you to prevent failures when saving pictures, as well as correct inaccuracies in the process of subsequent reading data from the media.