SanDisk or PNY for storage...?

[hayc59]

I have two micro SD cards 2 GIG of each is any of them better,than the other
My main one is 128 GIG SanDisk for Mavic Air 2

 

[old man mavic]

2 gig is not large enough to store anything worthwhile ,and you dont say what make or class of card they are

 

[hayc59]

My main one for the drone is SanDisk Extreme 128 GIG
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[k9kids]

That’s the same one I use. My prefered brand.

 

[lowellton]

I have the same brand but only 32g. Work fine for me

 

[Tentoes]

There are two figures to look for:

A. The 3 inside the U. This means 30 megabytes/second write speed.
B V30. This also means 30 megabytes/second write speed.

A good card will have one or both of these markings.

This Danish fellow posts really useful tech videos.

 

[BadWolf1]

Three things.
1. Speed. The fastest cards on the market have the U3 / V30 tags. DJI docs recommend you get these, though even for 4K theoretically the circled 10 should be fast enough.
2. Brand. SanDisk have one of the best reputations. I've used a lot of their cards over the years and had one failure (possibly faulty card/ possibly environmental); because of this there are some counterfeit San disk cards - buy from someone reputable (not everyone with a storefront on Amazon is !) .
3. Capacity. You pay a premium for very large or for small capacity cards. 64GB seems to be the sweet spot at the moment. A very large card, not backed up, is a great way to lose a lot of material in a single event. Yes, we all know that it's common sense to copy everything off the the card as soon as possible, but we don't always do it.

 

[keio]

I cannot speak of experience for drones, but i have more than 10 years shooting behind me, and i stick to one mark & type : Sandisk Extreme Pro (same as K9kids above). They might be a bit expensive, but i NEVER had any of my cards or mini cards which failed, and the "pro" is really worth it in terms of data transfer speed. I use them in my D750, Osmo Pocket and now MA2. They're strongly recommanded in the photography domain (almost every pro website advice using them). If for any reason not Sandisk, Lexar are supposed to be the alternative.

 

[DavidT_ NZ]

Three things.
1. Speed. The fastest cards on the market have the U3 / V30 tags. DJI docs recommend you get these, though even for 4K theoretically the circled 10 should be fast enough.
2. Brand. SanDisk have one of the best reputations. I've used a lot of their cards over the years and had one failure (possibly faulty card/ possibly environmental); because of this there are some counterfeit San disk cards - buy from someone reputable (not everyone with a storefront on Amazon is !) .
3. Capacity. You pay a premium for very large or for small capacity cards. 64GB seems to be the sweet spot at the moment. A very large card, not backed up, is a great way to lose a lot of material in a single event. Yes, we all know that it's common sense to copy everything off the the card as soon as possible, but we don't always do it.

A 2 TB Seagate external drive is a good backup unit. Price over 1 TB is not much more.

 

[Tentoes]

A 2 TB Seagate external drive is a good backup unit. Price over 1 TB is not much more.

I just got a 4TB Western Digital drive. Mainly for videos.

 

[BadWolf1]

A 2 TB Seagate external drive is a good backup unit. Price over 1 TB is not much more.

I have the 4TB , it's not lack of capacity which means I don't have everything backed up properly

 

[MavicAir2Marc]

I caught the 10TB Western Digital on sale at Best Buy for under $200. It's not an SSD (transfer speed is not that fast) but it allows me to have plenty of room for backups of my other SSD drives.