SD Cards, and other Disks/Storage Devices

[Windroid]

Do you folks use SD cards, or other storage devices, with your Android systems? What's your experience, how well do you find it works to use an SD card to expand the available storage?

 

[Fox Mulder]

Works fine as long as you use good brand name cards (watch for fakes) and as external storage only, not formatted as internal or adoptable storage which is a recipe for disaster.
Best to keep the card from being anywhere near full and for safety back up any important stuff that's on it. While following these suggestions makes a failure less likely it's still a more than zero chance so good to be prepared.

 

[svim]

I've always used a microSD card in all my phones over the years. Most set up as Portable, as supplemental storage media just to keep the internal storage less cluttered. With one phone, an old Moto, I did set up as Internal. I never had any problems with it that way either.

 

[ocnbrze]

since the note 7 did away with the sd card. i have not used one since.....nor have i seen a need to.

 

[olbriar]

I had a SD card fail years ago. I had a sizeable music library on the card but it was not the only copy I had. It created a problem but not a loss. The last few phones I've owned did not accommodate expansion so were purchased with ample internal storage.
I've not been sorry.

 

[mikedt]

I've always used SD storage for media, such as music,, podcasts, videos, pics. And on my Android box I have a 5TB USB HDD.

 

[Hadron]

I've not used microSD in my devices for a few years now. Had one 32GB Sandisk that I used with my original 2010 HTC Desire that's still working in my old tablet which I gave to my daughter a while back. Had another 32GB Samsung that failed irreparably (master boot record) after 3 months.

I've occasionally used USB flash drives with Android phones, either to transfer files or as external storage for nandroid backups, that's always worked fine. Never used anything that would need an external power supply with one.