SD CARD

KNS · Dec 9, 2019

Can anyone suggest a reliable make of SD card for the Mavic Mini?
Looking on line the Lexar brand seems better value, but would that be at expense of reliability, and finally presumably any SD card reader would be fine?
I ask as I have experienced difficulties with card's and compatibility with my Phantom 3 Standard over time.
Thanks in advance.

Gebo · Dec 9, 2019

My first card for the MM was the SanDisk Extreme 64GB microSD card but that card had a failure; I send it back. Now I use the Samsung EVO Plus 128GB micro SD card 100MB/s which works fine

msinger · Dec 9, 2019

KNS said:
Can anyone suggest a reliable make of SD card for the Mavic Mini?

Here are a few good brands:

SanDisk Extreme

Samsung EVO Select

You can find some others here:
Best memory card for your DJI drone

Slot Tech · Dec 9, 2019

Extreme Pro has the best write speed. I have that for my Phantom 4 Pro and Mavic 2 pro since they have high end cameras. I will probably pick one up for my Mavic mini as well. 64gb cards are plenty for me.

RavenManiac · Dec 9, 2019

Gebo said:
My first card for the MM was the SanDisk Extreme 64GB microSD card but that card had a failure; I send it back. Now I use the Samsung EVO Plus 128GB micro SD card 100MB/s which works fine

I was on the fence between the two cards you mentioned, but after reading your post I think I'll go for the Samsung EVO Plus. Thanks!

DanMan32 · Dec 9, 2019

No matter what make/model you research, you'll find reviews that they failed.

Could be bad batches, or fakes that managed to get into the mainstream.

RavenManiac · Dec 9, 2019

DanMan32 said:
No matter what make/model you research, you'll find reviews that they failed.

Could be bad batches, or fakes that managed to get into the mainstream.

Yes, that is true. To be honest, I was already leaning towards the Samsung solution. @Gebo just pushed me in that direction.

thermalflyer · Dec 9, 2019

Samsung EVO Plus U3

pmshop · Dec 10, 2019

KNS said:
Can anyone suggest a reliable make of SD card for the Mavic Mini?
Looking on line the Lexar brand seems better value, but would that be at expense of reliability, and finally presumably any SD card reader would be fine?
I ask as I have experienced difficulties with card's and compatibility with my Phantom 3 Standard over time.
Thanks in advance.

Samsung and SanDisk are both great.
Make sure they are U3 speeds.
Now I recommend 64Gb and a lot of them.
You will want to get into the practice of one MicroSD card, one flight.
Finish a flight, take the MicroSD card out and put in another.
That way if something goes wrong you do not lose ALL your video.
They even make MicroSD holders

Amazon.com : Micro SD Card Holders

OldGuy · Dec 10, 2019

KNS said:
Can anyone suggest a reliable make of SD card for the Mavic Mini?
Looking on line the Lexar brand seems better value, but would that be at expense of reliability, and finally presumably any SD card reader would be fine?
I ask as I have experienced difficulties with card's and compatibility with my Phantom 3 Standard over time.
Thanks in advance.

I have been using Kodak SD cards for sometime now from AliExpress. They are good value for money and I have had no problems with them. Just make sure you get the 3U version if you do buy.

https://es.aliexpress.com/wholesale...20191210061507&SearchText=kodak+micro+sd+card

netsonic · Dec 10, 2019

Gebo said:
Samsung EVO Plus 128GB micro SD card

I highly recommend this one. Have it in my mini and it just works flawlessly.

LeRoytheBoy · Dec 10, 2019

San Disk seem to be the most reliable cards in the market place. Go for the Extreme range or higher. A2 U3
Samsung Evo U3 are also excellent. They run a very close 2nd.

nn666 · Dec 10, 2019

Sandisk Extreme are good. The mini write speed is 40mbps so get a card that is U3 and can write that speed or faster.

DanMan32 · Dec 10, 2019

Despite video stream spec'd at 40Mb which class 10 could handle, DJI still specifies requiring U3.

WooZie · Dec 11, 2019

Hi all, does anyone know how can i set the camera to register a movie longer than 4gb? I don't know why my camera makes movies only 4gb and then it continues to another movie. Thanks

Thomas B · Dec 11, 2019

WooZie said:
Hi all, does anyone know how can i set the camera to register a movie longer than 4gb? I don't know why my camera makes movies only 4gb and then it continues to another movie. Thanks

Can’t be done. Just join the vids together in post processing... likely your standard computer OS software will do that.

WooZie · Dec 11, 2019

oh, so its standard that value, i thought it is about that cache settings, how much to make the film, so if i want to make full movie i have to put all moivies together with a software for editing?

Thomas B · Dec 11, 2019

WooZie said:
oh, so its standard that value, i thought it is about that cache settings, how much to make the film, so if i want to make full movie i have to put all moivies together with a software for editing?

Yes

WooZie · Dec 11, 2019

Thank you

DanMan32 · Dec 12, 2019

Well you have the full recording, it's just split between files. For 32GB cards, it's a FAT32 file size limitation. Above 32GB is formatted ExFAT which doesn't have a 4GB file size limitation but someone pointed out the video file format has a 4GB limit. Since we can stitch them together, not sure how that could be true.