I agree, and after finding this person's channel nearly 5 months prior when it talked about Windows 10 end of support, it's a good channel much like how Howcast used to be.
It's disappointing that most flagship smartphones and tablets have dropped support for MicroSD expansion, in favor of forcing customers to either buy the higher storage (and more expensive) versions of devices or make them pay for subscription cloud storage.
I think it's more pathetic that 128gb is STILL the 'standard' on $1200 smartphones (128gb more is another $100, for something that costs them fractions of a penny at this point). It was also the standard 10 years ago when they "only" cost $600 too.
@@Channel-gz9hm 128GB storage wouldn't be an issue if phones have expandable storage (via MicroSD slots), and if Apps haven't become more and more bloated with each new update. But yeah, $999 phones that only have 128GB non-expandablw storage are pretty much highway robbery.
@@AslamNazeerShaikh I've used plenty of microSD cards and so far none have failed. Even my old 2GB one from 2010 still works up to now. Just avoid buying shady and fake SD/MicroSD cards and we'll be fine.
Thank you for distilling all this into a concise video, it's a great reference that will sadly not get as much visibility as it should! I wish SD Express would see adoption, I have UHS-II in some of my video gear, but it's hard to find it anywhere else, and it feels like we've reached USB levels of confusion over the various data rates and icons!
I remember my first HDD was about the size of a shoebox and had a 20mb capacity. Now we have 100,000 times the storage in something the size of a postage stamp. Incredible when you think about it.
So you also remember the Cray One in/of 1990. It probably had its own building or section thereof, its own connection to the e-grid, its own climate control, its own support and service staff, and weight aside, it cost a ton (make that millions). Between 5 and 7 years ago, you could have the same amount of FLOPS in two NVIDIA GTX 1080ti cards in your desktop PC. Intel's Moore promised to increase the component density, not necessarily speed, but speed increased a lot too. And with 22 GB very fast video-RAM, those two 1080ti cards likely had a lot more memory than the Cray. 2 or 3 Moore's Law cycles (periods) later than these 1080ti cards and we see a huge jump in performance again. Or, progress in bandwidth is amazing too.
@@jpdj2715 I remember our molecular modelling teams used Silicon Graphics Indigo and Onyx machines back in the 90s which cost £200-300k each. Probably equivalent to a £150 APU today.
I remember watching your original video on the SD, SDHC and SDXC standards, and I distinctly remember the phrase "(...)and SDXC, which goes up to a *theoretical* 2 Terabytes". Theoretical, as in, it's so large you'll probably never have to worry about hitting that limit. Well, here we are...
As someone whose first exposure to computer storage was cassette tapes, I am constantly amazed by the advances that have been made. 2 TB on a card smaller than a fingernail. Astonishing.
For me, that is the signature moment in the video -- the one at which I decided to stop reading out all of the transfer speeds! It really is staggering that they can go on releasing standards that and not being implemented.
@@ExplainingComputers At least it's not quite as confused as USB! I get the feeling that the standards organisations try to justify their own existence (and the fees paid to them) before some upstart leapfrogs them with something different.
Well put, I was actually laughing while Chris was droning on with all the standards and specs knowing full well that my glaze over period would soon be upon me. Despite that, really liked the video and made wish I had paid more attention to this awhile back. Great stuff here.
I've certainly learnt a lot about SD cards today & I didn't realise how expensive some of them are, most of my camera cards are SD class 10 16 GB which suits my use case. Thanks Chris for a thoroughly interesting & well explained video :) 👍
A little thing to add A2 SDs are supposed to support Command Queuing but currently all Samsung cards have a broken implementation. Raspberry Pi OS activated CQ support on SDs with the latest couple a images on the Pi 5 and work with a blacklist but this seems to be very hit or miss and at least on my Samsung SDs it was all misses. So if any of you run into that problem here's the soliution. Adding the line: dtparam=sd_cqe=off in the file /boot/firmware/config.txt
I have over a dozen Raspberry Pi's 3b and 4's through my home for various projects. Some which have intensive continual writing tasks every few minutes. It's going on almost 7 years for 3 of my units and I have had 0 problems with them. I do purchase my cards in a computer store because there is so many counterfeit cards online. Even ones that have the names Sandisk printed on them and come in Sandisk style packaging. A discerning eye like yours and mine could tell the difference but I fear many can't. Anyway, I think this is why I have had 7 years on 3 of my units and have had 0 problems. I buy only high performance endurance style cards meant to be worked hard. Happy New Year!
Within the last couple of years or so I accidentally bought a fake SanDisk USB stick and a fake WD Blue SSD. Once seeing them up close, the SanDisk one was obviously a fake without even taking it out of the packaging... but the WD one was very convincing until I dug deeper once connected to a PC.
@@ExplainingComputers I can't agree more. However I'm disappointed by Samsung's performance when it COmes to Command Queuing in A2 cards. To me still some of the best SD's for Pi's < RP5
This guy really does make the BEST computer hardware content on the UA-cams. Maybe because he writes it ahead of time and makes useful charts that I can screen capture. The others are like stream of consciousness, even if they are scripted.
A lot of the younger people on YT seem to have a different idea of what coherence is apparently. His videos are cohesive and coherent, and so they can present a lot more information in a short amount of time.
That's why the EU and other countries should mandate or require newer devices have microSD expansion slots before they are sold there. After all, EU managed to force manufacturers to use a standard connector, USB-C, and user replaceable batteries. Pretty sure they can force manufacturers to put microSD expansion on devices.
the main companies Samsung,Google or Apple don't offer SD cards in their phones but there are other big phone manufacturers that have SD card readers in their phones.
*THANK YOU* for organizing all of this groovy info in a single concise video, Mr. Barnatt! 🙏🏼 If I had a *dollar* for *every hour* I've spent rummaging around on the Internet every time I have need of one of these (in my attempts to figure out/compare the various standards, etc.), I'd be able to buy us both dinner at an establishment that uses linen napkins. 👍🏼🍽😊
@@FlyboyHelosim all a matter of perspective. I’ve backed up gigabytes to DAT and consider that to be slow. For every day use I’d find the transfer speeds Chris quoted perfectly adequate. And if terabytes of data on a micro SD doesn’t impress you then I envy your youth.
The proprietary tech for UHS-1 is a bit annoying. In my testing, a Samsung micro SD reader will read a Samsung Pro Ultimate at 205 MB/s but will only read a Sandisk Extreme Pro at 95 MB/s. The SanDisk QuickFlow micro SD reader will read a Sandisk Extreme Pro at 203 MB/s and will read a Samsung Pro Ultimate at 170 MB/s. A Sandisk MobileMate USD 3.0 micro SD reader (which has no mention of QuickFlow) reads a Sandisk Extreme Pro at 178 MB/s but will only read a Samsung Pro Ultimate at 97 MB/s.
That matches my experience, and yes, it's annoying. Sandisk's way of "overclocking" UHS-1 appears to be compatible with cards and readers from Kingston and Lexar, but not with Samsung. Samsung's UHS-1 cards and readers achieve speeds beyond 104 MB/s only with each other.
I learned a lot from this video! I was hoping for some information on command queuing though. Maybe another video? Thanks for all the great videos over the years!
Absolutely wonderful video! While I've been able to keep up with some of the other convoluted standards like usb naming, sd cards have always left me rather confused with their constantly changing terminology and metrics, great to have the key info summarized into one video I can reference back to in the future much like your ssd videos.
Chris- Thank you for explaining this topic! I used to think i was "up-to-date" on the latest developments with basic PC computer issues. but recently i purchased a new high speed camera that uses the new UHS-II cards which then required me to buy an adapter to quickly download data from that card. but i felt in the dark about when these changes took place until i saw this video. thank you for posting and educating us. I hope all is well since you looked a bit more serious than usual in your opening sequence. much appreciated your insights always.
Very helpful and informative, especially since I recently started using my new HC-X2 Panasonic cameras for 4K video recording. 😊Your storage tech reviews are consistently comprehensive and succinct. A forte of yours,, but hardly the only one. ❤
Clear and straightforward explanation of yet another confusing format!! Thanks as always Mr. Barnatt!! Enjoyed your first video of 2025, looking forward to many more!! Happy New Year Sir!!!😀😀
My Gawd, I would have to look at this video 3 or 4 times to retain MOST of this info but not all... Thank you for the work you put into this particular video! 1.7 MILLION subscribers, wow! I remember when you barely cracked the 10k mark. Add my subscription to that almost 2 million!
Thank you for yet another perfectly presented and informative video, as per your normal standard. As usual, I leant a lot from it. I look for to more of your content in 2025. Happy New Year!
Wish this video came out 2 weeks before as quite literally did similar level of product research and ended up buying a usb-c reader which explicitly mentioned supports uhs-ii speeds. Vast majority of the cheap adapters are uhs-i even though your card itself can do higher data rates and you're limited by it. I mostly got it for the windows pc I use as the macbook pro with M series chip on it has uhs-ii supported card reader built into it. Great quality video as always with full of useful information and no bs content. Cheers!
Thanks for the update/refresher on SD cards Chris. I followed your earlier video on the subject, and always go for the higher speed, name brand SD's, Especially with the costs coming down in the last few years. As always, a relevant and well presented video on Computing. Take Good Care Chris!
A reason they don't is because the speed of onboard storage has far exceeded the speeds that the best micro SD cards can offer. Flagships are expected to perform without delay. This is why lower end phones tend to include external storage because performance is not a priority.
Thank you for the huge amount of research and time youv'e spent releasing this information - the new industry standard on SD card information, will forward to all my collegues
Good grief! How complex is this?! There's a rumour the Nintendo Switch 2 will be using SD Express cards - which I'd never heard of - and low and behold, here's Mr Explaining Computers with a video right out of the gate for 2025! Amazing work.
Indeed, a few people here are commenting on the Switch 2 potentially using SD Express. It would be good use of the interface, if the cards continue to exist (they are much harder to get hold of than a UHS-II card, and it seems that none have been launched recently, which is a bad sign).
@@ExplainingComputersI suspect that Nintendo's use of the SD Express standard will cause manufacturers to launch new products with a significant amount of urgency and save the format from the dust bin of history. I would not be shocked if we saw widespread adoption of the standard across a wide array of devices in short order.
It's when I believe that I know pretty much about a subject that Christopher comes and gives me a reality check. Thanks for updating my brain, once again ! 👌
There are more SD options than I realized. Thank you for a calm, clear, informative video without "jazzing it up" with a bunch of thumping background music and jerky, eyesore video transitions.
Happy 2025 Chris! I guess I'm going to have to spring for a new SD card reader as most of my SD cards are SanDisk also. Thanks for the information on SD cards as I mostly have been concerned about the size not the speed. Happy New Year!
Greetings Christopher B. and Happy New Year. It's a great explanatory video. But, I've been surprised by a Samsung SD card back in 2012 where it wasn't recognised in some of the smartphones, but worked okay in samsung mobile phones and PC. Since then, I always purchase SanDisk cards.
Thank you, Chris, for walking us through this crazy scenario - like many, my head about exploded as we went through it all. I kept thinking this is a perfect use for AI "hello, here's my intended use, which SD card do I need". For what it's worth, I used a SanDisk drive for 5 years on a Raspberry Pi 4 as a VDI for work, before it recently started having issues. I was impressed that such daily use was sustainable for a SD card!
Finally, a clear and concise guide to buying the right SD card- i've been having video loss on my DJI Action5 camera, and i suspected the card spec may be the issue. Thank you for putting this video out ! ;)
Nice to see a real functioning 2TB sd card. Though it's SanDisk and I've always had slower speeds from them compared to a Samsung EVO Plus or Pro Plus unit of the same capacity.
Thanks Chris, this is a dry subject if ever there was one! It makes UBC and the various standards almost straightforward. Well done for hanging in there and giving us the lowdown. I'll stick to usb readers and NVME where I can.
Excellent summary of a pretty big set of specifications! :) Thank you, this is great to share with people who need some advice! A small companion article with the data laid out in tables, on your website, would be very useful as well, if you ever want to succinctly cover the topics on your hardware guides page. Happy New Year! :)
Thank you, for another video with clear content and still standing zoom level while showing you. The only thing I missed was the scissors freeing the SD from their plastic foil prison.
Because I ordered a netbook this week, I was thinking about using an SD card as a hard drive as it only got 8gb memory and a 128gb SSD hard drive, excellent video, Chris, I'll help me decide what SD card I should get.
You can get little adapters as big as a fingernail which the SD plugs into, which then go into a usb port. Those are pretty good. Alternatively you can use an external hard drive or SSD if you need more than 512gb of storage, that tends to offer better value
Happy New Year! Thank you for this video. Useful to have this reference to traverse the jungle that SD has become. I thought the USB consortium caused confusion? Nothing compared to the driving body behind the SD standards apparently. I'll have to keep this video handy the next time I am on the market.
Thank you! I've been wondering about different SDs for a while now ever since we ran at required specs at the office (we have devices which store data on SD cards). Did not realize how big of a mess the standards are! Happy New Year too!
I’m reminded why it took me a month of investigation just to get the optimal sd card for my Nintendo switch lol. I didn’t want to over pay for speed rating that went to waste, but I also didn’t want to potentially underutilize what the internal connection was capable of
5:05 This is the info I was looking for - If you want to use a SD card as a drive on your computer, look for A1 or A2 designation. Thank you very much.
It’s precisely this kind of video that continues to make EC the Gold Standard of informative computer related videos on UA-cam. Very much appreciated!
Many thanks. :) I always like to return to a real "explaining" video, so I thought we'd open 2025 with one.
@@ExplainingComputers This video should be required watching for all salespeople in computer and camera stores! Thank you!
@@weinbergfahrer4048 Well , they're mostly illiterates, so this video might help.
I couldn’t agree more with OP. This is the gold standard indeed. Such a good cascade of knowledge, not just information. Thank you 🙏
I agree, and after finding this person's channel nearly 5 months prior when it talked about Windows 10 end of support, it's a good channel much like how Howcast used to be.
It's disappointing that most flagship smartphones and tablets have dropped support for MicroSD expansion, in favor of forcing customers to either buy the higher storage (and more expensive) versions of devices or make them pay for subscription cloud storage.
I think it's more pathetic that 128gb is STILL the 'standard' on $1200 smartphones (128gb more is another $100, for something that costs them fractions of a penny at this point). It was also the standard 10 years ago when they "only" cost $600 too.
@@Channel-gz9hm 128GB storage wouldn't be an issue if phones have expandable storage (via MicroSD slots), and if Apps haven't become more and more bloated with each new update.
But yeah, $999 phones that only have 128GB non-expandablw storage are pretty much highway robbery.
Micro SDs are failing very occasionally and causing data losses which is damaging brand reputation of mobile companies. 😢
Entry to mid level android devices thankfully have a slot to load the microSD cards.
@@AslamNazeerShaikh I've used plenty of microSD cards and so far none have failed. Even my old 2GB one from 2010 still works up to now.
Just avoid buying shady and fake SD/MicroSD cards and we'll be fine.
Thank you for distilling all this into a concise video, it's a great reference that will sadly not get as much visibility as it should!
I wish SD Express would see adoption, I have UHS-II in some of my video gear, but it's hard to find it anywhere else, and it feels like we've reached USB levels of confusion over the various data rates and icons!
I remember my first HDD was about the size of a shoebox and had a 20mb capacity. Now we have 100,000 times the storage in something the size of a postage stamp.
Incredible when you think about it.
Progress in storage is amazing indeed.
So you also remember the Cray One in/of 1990. It probably had its own building or section thereof, its own connection to the e-grid, its own climate control, its own support and service staff, and weight aside, it cost a ton (make that millions). Between 5 and 7 years ago, you could have the same amount of FLOPS in two NVIDIA GTX 1080ti cards in your desktop PC.
Intel's Moore promised to increase the component density, not necessarily speed, but speed increased a lot too. And with 22 GB very fast video-RAM, those two 1080ti cards likely had a lot more memory than the Cray.
2 or 3 Moore's Law cycles (periods) later than these 1080ti cards and we see a huge jump in performance again.
Or, progress in bandwidth is amazing too.
@@jpdj2715 I remember our molecular modelling teams used Silicon Graphics Indigo and Onyx machines back in the 90s which cost £200-300k each.
Probably equivalent to a £150 APU today.
Yeah, I got a 1TB NMVe and.... all that data fits on that one little chip the size of my fingernail??
One could also clearly hear every sector read from the HDD, no need for an activity LED.
I remember watching your original video on the SD, SDHC and SDXC standards, and I distinctly remember the phrase "(...)and SDXC, which goes up to a *theoretical* 2 Terabytes". Theoretical, as in, it's so large you'll probably never have to worry about hitting that limit. Well, here we are...
Nice. We got there! :)
As someone whose first exposure to computer storage was cassette tapes, I am constantly amazed by the advances that have been made. 2 TB on a card smaller than a fingernail. Astonishing.
My head exploded by the 8 minute mark. So many standards and specs. Thank you Chris for such clear explanation.
For me, that is the signature moment in the video -- the one at which I decided to stop reading out all of the transfer speeds! It really is staggering that they can go on releasing standards that and not being implemented.
@@ExplainingComputers At least it's not quite as confused as USB! I get the feeling that the standards organisations try to justify their own existence (and the fees paid to them) before some upstart leapfrogs them with something different.
Well put, I was actually laughing while Chris was droning on with all the standards and specs knowing full well that my glaze over period would soon be upon me. Despite that, really liked the video and made wish I had paid more attention to this awhile back. Great stuff here.
@@ExplainingComputers I was about to say the same thing.
Almost as big a sh!tshow as USB
I've certainly learnt a lot about SD cards today & I didn't realise how expensive some of them are, most of my camera cards are SD class 10 16 GB which suits my use case. Thanks Chris for a thoroughly interesting & well explained video :) 👍
This: "suits my use" Sometimes people forgets...
A little thing to add A2 SDs are supposed to support Command Queuing but currently all Samsung cards have a broken implementation. Raspberry Pi OS activated CQ support on SDs with the latest couple a images on the Pi 5 and work with a blacklist but this seems to be very hit or miss and at least on my Samsung SDs it was all misses. So if any of you run into that problem here's the soliution.
Adding the line:
dtparam=sd_cqe=off
in the file
/boot/firmware/config.txt
I have over a dozen Raspberry Pi's 3b and 4's through my home for various projects. Some which have intensive continual writing tasks every few minutes. It's going on almost 7 years for 3 of my units and I have had 0 problems with them. I do purchase my cards in a computer store because there is so many counterfeit cards online. Even ones that have the names Sandisk printed on them and come in Sandisk style packaging. A discerning eye like yours and mine could tell the difference but I fear many can't. Anyway, I think this is why I have had 7 years on 3 of my units and have had 0 problems. I buy only high performance endurance style cards meant to be worked hard. Happy New Year!
Thanks for this. I too have never said an SBC failure caused by an SD card. As you say, it pays to purchase well.
@@ExplainingComputers I think you meant "I too have never had an SBC Failure" Typo with "said"?
*there are so many (because "many" is plural)
Within the last couple of years or so I accidentally bought a fake SanDisk USB stick and a fake WD Blue SSD. Once seeing them up close, the SanDisk one was obviously a fake without even taking it out of the packaging... but the WD one was very convincing until I dug deeper once connected to a PC.
@@ExplainingComputers I can't agree more. However I'm disappointed by Samsung's performance when it COmes to Command Queuing in A2 cards. To me still some of the best SD's for Pi's < RP5
its crazy, 2TB's on on such a small device...
1994!
16 MB EDO-RAM module = a whole summer picking strawberries....SIGH!
I came from Amiga - what did I know (FASTRAM) 😞
This guy really does make the BEST computer hardware content on the UA-cams. Maybe because he writes it ahead of time and makes useful charts that I can screen capture. The others are like stream of consciousness, even if they are scripted.
A lot of the younger people on YT seem to have a different idea of what coherence is apparently. His videos are cohesive and coherent, and so they can present a lot more information in a short amount of time.
Sucks that new phones don't have micro SD cards anymore
That's why the EU and other countries should mandate or require newer devices have microSD expansion slots before they are sold there.
After all, EU managed to force manufacturers to use a standard connector, USB-C, and user replaceable batteries. Pretty sure they can force manufacturers to put microSD expansion on devices.
In my country, I still have no idea why microSD is being on the shelf more than the standard SD card. microSD card is way finicky than standard SD.
i think the world should convert over to mini usb jk
@@AlfaPro1337 They should bring back the MiniSD card.
the main companies Samsung,Google or Apple don't offer SD cards in their phones but there are other big phone manufacturers that have SD card readers in their phones.
*THANK YOU* for organizing all of this groovy info in a single concise video, Mr. Barnatt! 🙏🏼
If I had a *dollar* for *every hour* I've spent rummaging around on the Internet every time I have need of one of these (in my attempts to figure out/compare the various standards, etc.), I'd be able to buy us both dinner at an establishment that uses linen napkins. 👍🏼🍽😊
Happy New Year Chris!
Let’s take a moment to appreciate that you can store 2TB (soon to be 4TB) on something smaller than your thumbnail 🤯
I know. It is amazing.
Not that many people would want to...
@@FlyboyHelosim Only those that understand I guess
@@almurray2000 I understand fully. And I wouldn't trust that much data on something so small and slow.
@@FlyboyHelosim all a matter of perspective. I’ve backed up gigabytes to DAT and consider that to be slow. For every day use I’d find the transfer speeds Chris quoted perfectly adequate. And if terabytes of data on a micro SD doesn’t impress you then I envy your youth.
Great information. You know youtube would not be the same without your fine presentations. Thank you. Happy 25
A Happy New Year!
@@ExplainingComputers hi do you have a link to connecting Pi 5 to laptop directly with cable
The proprietary tech for UHS-1 is a bit annoying. In my testing, a Samsung micro SD reader will read a Samsung Pro Ultimate at 205 MB/s but will only read a Sandisk Extreme Pro at 95 MB/s. The SanDisk QuickFlow micro SD reader will read a Sandisk Extreme Pro at 203 MB/s and will read a Samsung Pro Ultimate at 170 MB/s. A Sandisk MobileMate USD 3.0 micro SD reader (which has no mention of QuickFlow) reads a Sandisk Extreme Pro at 178 MB/s but will only read a Samsung Pro Ultimate at 97 MB/s.
That matches my experience, and yes, it's annoying. Sandisk's way of "overclocking" UHS-1 appears to be compatible with cards and readers from Kingston and Lexar, but not with Samsung. Samsung's UHS-1 cards and readers achieve speeds beyond 104 MB/s only with each other.
Chris, Thank you for untangling all these markings and specs on SD cards for us. As usual, clear, concise and very useful
A very interesting video! I never knew there was so much to learn about SD cards!
Everything that I didn't know that I didn't know
about SD Cards! - Thank You, Sir!
Cheers ! - Judson & Buddy !! 🙂
Greetings my friends! :)
Was not expecting so many specs! Nice summation at the end and much appreciated. Happy New Year to you and everyone!
I learned a lot from this video! I was hoping for some information on command queuing though. Maybe another video? Thanks for all the great videos over the years!
Thanks, and there's certainly possibilities for more videos on this topic. :)
Happy New Year from Finland also! And thanks for the video.
This maybe the best explanation video I have ever seen for the SD format. ❤
Very comprehensive stuff, you didn't leave out anything. Thanks!
Very welcome!
excellent video so much great information didnt realize how complex these cards get.thank you for sharing
Absolutely wonderful video! While I've been able to keep up with some of the other convoluted standards like usb naming, sd cards have always left me rather confused with their constantly changing terminology and metrics, great to have the key info summarized into one video I can reference back to in the future much like your ssd videos.
Chris- Thank you for explaining this topic! I used to think i was "up-to-date" on the latest developments with basic PC computer issues. but recently i purchased a new high speed camera that uses the new UHS-II cards which then required me to buy an adapter to quickly download data from that card. but i felt in the dark about when these changes took place until i saw this video. thank you for posting and educating us. I hope all is well since you looked a bit more serious than usual in your opening sequence. much appreciated your insights always.
Very helpful and informative, especially since I recently started using my new HC-X2 Panasonic cameras for 4K video recording. 😊Your storage tech reviews are consistently comprehensive and succinct. A forte of yours,, but hardly the only one. ❤
Clear and straightforward explanation of yet another confusing format!! Thanks as always Mr. Barnatt!! Enjoyed your first video of 2025, looking forward to many more!! Happy New Year Sir!!!😀😀
Thank you.
I wish your video was the top result.
Concise and exact information with no filler or fluff.
Greetings and Happy New Year from Thailand once again, Sir Chris!
Wow, I am going to watch that a few times.... Very well done. 😮
My Gawd, I would have to look at this video 3 or 4 times to retain MOST of this info but not all... Thank you for the work you put into this particular video!
1.7 MILLION subscribers, wow! I remember when you barely cracked the 10k mark. Add my subscription to that almost 2 million!
goldmine of information . thank you for sharing this one and good luck for future ones. 👍
Thanks for the great videos over the years. Just when I was looking for info on express micro SD.
Very informative and useful. I really can't keep up with all these developments on my own. Thank you.
Fun fact: SD borrowed the logo from the Super Density Disc - a successor to CD, which ultimately became the DVD - hence the logo with a disc in it
Fantastic fact! Thanks for sharing here.
Thank you for yet another perfectly presented and informative video, as per your normal standard. As usual, I leant a lot from it. I look for to more of your content in 2025. Happy New Year!
A Happy New Year!
Wish this video came out 2 weeks before as quite literally did similar level of product research and ended up buying a usb-c reader which explicitly mentioned supports uhs-ii speeds. Vast majority of the cheap adapters are uhs-i even though your card itself can do higher data rates and you're limited by it. I mostly got it for the windows pc I use as the macbook pro with M series chip on it has uhs-ii supported card reader built into it.
Great quality video as always with full of useful information and no bs content. Cheers!
I'm always grateful for Explaining Computers episodes that take a tangled nest of standards and, well, *explain* them.
As always a very indepth dive into all the standard related to the topic. And always well appreciated. Thanks Chris!
Excellent reference video. Thanks!
Happy New Year Chris. I appreciate the effort and research in your videos, thanks.
Thanks for the update/refresher on SD cards Chris. I followed your earlier video on the subject, and always go for the higher speed, name brand SD's, Especially with the costs coming down in the last few years. As always, a relevant and well presented video on Computing. Take Good Care Chris!
Thanks Rick. I cannot believe that my last SD card video was 2020! :)
All the standards being advertised were always confusing so you really cleared it up. Thanks.
Imagine if flagship phones still had SD card slots
A reason they don't is because the speed of onboard storage has far exceeded the speeds that the best micro SD cards can offer. Flagships are expected to perform without delay. This is why lower end phones tend to include external storage because performance is not a priority.
Thank you for all the information. I was always confused by all the settings.
Thoroughly and clearly presented as always Chris, many thanks!
Very informative and helpful. Thank you again Christopher.
Mind-boggeling!! Great video, Chris!
Thank you for the huge amount of research and time youv'e spent releasing this information - the new industry standard on SD card information, will forward to all my collegues
This was incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for making this rather complex and confusing topic clear and easily understood. You are awesome!
Been working with computer systems over 30 years and I still learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Great content mate!
Good grief! How complex is this?! There's a rumour the Nintendo Switch 2 will be using SD Express cards - which I'd never heard of - and low and behold, here's Mr Explaining Computers with a video right out of the gate for 2025! Amazing work.
Indeed, a few people here are commenting on the Switch 2 potentially using SD Express. It would be good use of the interface, if the cards continue to exist (they are much harder to get hold of than a UHS-II card, and it seems that none have been launched recently, which is a bad sign).
@@ExplainingComputersI suspect that Nintendo's use of the SD Express standard will cause manufacturers to launch new products with a significant amount of urgency and save the format from the dust bin of history. I would not be shocked if we saw widespread adoption of the standard across a wide array of devices in short order.
It's when I believe that I know pretty much about a subject that Christopher comes and gives me a reality check. Thanks for updating my brain, once again ! 👌
Very explanatory and useful.
Thank you.
Excellent stuff. Many thanks for the explanation. Have just subscribed. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Welcome aboard!
As usual a very informative and fun to watch video. Thank you and keep up the good work.
always love these kinds of videos! Happy New Year, Chris! ^_^
Happy new year!
After 10 years - VFBCSD.
Very F...antastically Big Capacity SD
I'm cutting up parts of this video and making a cheat sheet out of it. I'm sure my work buddies will want copies as well.
Absolutely awesome work!
I have learned so much in this video about SD cards which I never bothered to learn before, sir
This is a very useful video!! Thank you!!
Great info! I am using SD (and, especially, MicroSD) cards increasingly as time goes by, so this is right on time. Thanks!
Happy New Year Chris. Looking forward to many more videos.
A Happy New Year!
Great video as always, thanks!
They may have a 8TB sd card, but the one I actually use is 64GB and it's in a raspberry pi 😄 Great update on SD cards! 👍
There are more SD options than I realized. Thank you for a calm, clear, informative video without "jazzing it up" with a bunch of thumping background music and jerky, eyesore video transitions.
Another excellent video - very helpful reference. 👍
Amazing video, leaves no questions unanswered.
Very interesting video. Thanks EC !!
Interesting and well presented. Good info. Happy Y2K+25.
"Y2K+25" .... you alright mate?
Thanks, you too!
Super informative video. Thank you.
Amazing video very well put together, you have answered many of my questions...Happy New year I hope 2025 will be a awesome year for you.
Happy 2025 Chris!
I guess I'm going to have to spring for a new SD card reader as most of my SD cards are SanDisk also.
Thanks for the information on SD cards as I mostly have been concerned about the size not the speed.
Happy New Year!
Greetings Christopher B. and Happy New Year. It's a great explanatory video. But, I've been surprised by a Samsung SD card back in 2012 where it wasn't recognised in some of the smartphones, but worked okay in samsung mobile phones and PC. Since then, I always purchase SanDisk cards.
I am forever explaining the same, now I can just send them this video, what a relief.
Thank you, Chris, for walking us through this crazy scenario - like many, my head about exploded as we went through it all. I kept thinking this is a perfect use for AI "hello, here's my intended use, which SD card do I need". For what it's worth, I used a SanDisk drive for 5 years on a Raspberry Pi 4 as a VDI for work, before it recently started having issues. I was impressed that such daily use was sustainable for a SD card!
Thank you so much Chris, these videos are so useful!
Very informative, well explained and perfect pacing
This was the nicest informative video i have ever watched
Another great video, thanks. This was actually a topic I knew very little about because I just don't have much use for these items currently.
Finally, a clear and concise guide to buying the right SD card- i've been having video loss on my DJI Action5 camera, and i suspected the card spec may be the issue. Thank you for putting this video out ! ;)
Happy New Year to the Man!!........😎
Nice to see a real functioning 2TB sd card. Though it's SanDisk and I've always had slower speeds from them compared to a Samsung EVO Plus or Pro Plus unit of the same capacity.
Thanks Chris, this is a dry subject if ever there was one! It makes UBC and the various standards almost straightforward. Well done for hanging in there and giving us the lowdown.
I'll stick to usb readers and NVME where I can.
Excellent summary of a pretty big set of specifications! :) Thank you, this is great to share with people who need some advice! A small companion article with the data laid out in tables, on your website, would be very useful as well, if you ever want to succinctly cover the topics on your hardware guides page.
Happy New Year! :)
Thank you, for another video with clear content and still standing zoom level while showing you. The only thing I missed was the scissors freeing the SD from their plastic foil prison.
Because I ordered a netbook this week, I was thinking about using an SD card as a hard drive as it only got 8gb memory and a 128gb SSD hard drive, excellent video, Chris, I'll help me decide what SD card I should get.
You can get little adapters as big as a fingernail which the SD plugs into, which then go into a usb port. Those are pretty good. Alternatively you can use an external hard drive or SSD if you need more than 512gb of storage, that tends to offer better value
I just soldered a 32gb Samsung fit flash drive to my eee PC 900 motherboard yesterday just for funzies.
*drive, as it only has
*8 GB of RAM
*128 GB SSD. Excellent
*Chris. It'll
Better get a tiny USB drive like Samsung Fit or SanDisk Ultra Fit. They can read at 400MB/s
A very Interesting description of these little dervices. Thank you very much
Happy New Year! Thank you for this video. Useful to have this reference to traverse the jungle that SD has become. I thought the USB consortium caused confusion? Nothing compared to the driving body behind the SD standards apparently. I'll have to keep this video handy the next time I am on the market.
I know about the class, but not all the other details. Thank you for the simple explanation.
Thank you! I've been wondering about different SDs for a while now ever since we ran at required specs at the office (we have devices which store data on SD cards). Did not realize how big of a mess the standards are!
Happy New Year too!
I died during this video, and then I was resurrected. Really informative, thanks. Still can't believe there are 2TB mSD cards on the market.
I'm glad you came back!
I’m reminded why it took me a month of investigation just to get the optimal sd card for my Nintendo switch lol. I didn’t want to over pay for speed rating that went to waste, but I also didn’t want to potentially underutilize what the internal connection was capable of
Thanks very much for the comprehensive breakdown.
It's great to see how technology evolves. Greetings from Romania.
An update I didn't know I needed. Things have gotten complicated. Thanks for sharing.
5:05 This is the info I was looking for - If you want to use a SD card as a drive on your computer, look for A1 or A2 designation.
Thank you very much.