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Cheapest micro sd cards?

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leepylee74

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Hi all, I have just become the owner of a xperia z2. And I am now in need of a micro sd.... 128 gb...
From experience where has everyone used etc cheapest place?

Thanks in advance for any help
 
Just a heads up: you often get what you buy. No guarantee, but if the data stored is important, cheap may not be a good route.
 
Avoid eBay - way too many scanners there (take a low capacity card, hack it so that it appears to be higher capacity, sell to punter is search of a bargain who will only notice when the real capacity is exceeded and data start being corrupted).

We've seen that so many times. It's just not worth it.
 
As noted above, I'd be very wary of buying a 128GB card online.

One of my known-trustworthy e-tailers has Kingston's 128GB Class 10 card for
 
Yep. Stay away from cheap. I have 2 cheap sd cards (one from newegg) and they both went bad after 2 years.
 
I thought I would share a couple tools I use to detect "fake" sized flash drives.

1st is RMPrepUSB - This is the swiss army knife of USB and SD memory, has many tools to test and create bootable memory drives and more. One of the tests is a quick size test that will inform you if the drive is legitimately the size it reports to be.

Download - RMPrepUSB

Second is a smaller tool created by the same people that created RMPrepUSB, a stand alone single exe "FakeFlashTest". Handy if all you want is a size tester or want to drop it on a pendrive as part of your toolkit for fixing or diagnosing computers and devices.

https://sites.google.com/a/rmprepusb.com/www/tutorials/-fake-usb-flash-memory-drives
 
Also never assume simply paying more for something will guarantee it's performance or life expectancy.

Cloud backup and storage providers along with apps that will sync your most precious files such as pictures and videos to the cloud right from your device or even right to your desktop when connected to your home wifi point are a dime a dozen.

Bottom line is with gigs of free space from Google, Box, DropBox, Copy.com, Bitcasa and more with their own apps and tons of free sync offerings from the play store there is no excuse for data loss other than your own laziness to create a free solution.
 
I use the cloud, though frankly I do not care to. I also work with files that are bunches of megs in size that due to their size are not practical to routinely down/upload to a remote site.
 
I would avoid buying from eBay at ANY cost, most of them are fake (especially a high capacity).

Personally, I trust ONLY Sandisk, though they are not perfect either. Look up in my review links (sticky in the forum at the top or in my sig) where I reviewed their latest 128GB microSD.

Coincidentally, my card actually failed lol!!! with a bad controller, so I contacted Sandisk and within a day had RMA and already sent it back for replacement. The lesson, always backup your data no matter how much you trust the manufacturer ;) Furthermore, even buying from Amazon, be very careful because a lot of scammers add their fake card listing under official product listing. Make sure you know exactly the seller you are buying from, and this applies to either US or UK Amazon ;)
 
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