SanDisk Ultra 16GB MicroSDHC Class 10 UHS Memory Card Speed Up To 30MB/s With Adapter - SDSDQUA-016G-U46A [Old Version]

Product Specifications

• Up To 30MB/s Read Speed
• 10-Year Warranty
• Easily Back Up Files With “SanDisk Memory Zone” App
• Compatible For Android Smartphones & Tablets
• Class 10 Performance For Full HD Video

• Includes SD Adapter

  Product Description

Size:16GB  |  Product Packaging:Standard Packaging SanDisk products are constructed to the good standards and rigorously tested. You can be confident in the good quality, performance and reliability of every SanDisk product.

Product Reviews

UPDATED - Great w/ Galaxy S4 & Galaxy Tab 4 10.1 - No Complaints Here!!!

So my lovely wife bought me a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 for Father’s Day and I’ve been loving it ever since. Just as other with Samsung products, the Galaxy Tab 4 has the ability to add a microSD card to expand the memory on the device. Since it’s been over a year, I decided to do some more research to see if SanDisk offered anything new. As of 6/19/2014, their product lineup for microSD cards from worst to best (performance-wise) are the as follows:SanDiskSanDisk UltraSanDisk Ultra PLUSSanDisk ExtremeSanDisk Extreme PLUSSanDisk Extreme PRONow, the difference between all of these cards are simply the speed in which you can read/write data to the card. Yes, the published rating of most all these cards (except the SanDisk regular) are Class 10/UHS-I but that’s just a rating… Actual real world performance does get better with each model, but with faster cards come more expensive prices. Since Amazon doesn’t carry the Ultra PLUS model of microSD card, I had to do direct comparisons between the SanDisk Ultra ($34.27), Extreme ($57.95), and Extreme PLUS ($67.95).As mentioned in my earlier review, I purchased the SanDisk Ultra for my Galaxy S4. My question was, did I want to pay over $20 more for a card that is faster than the one I already owned? Or I could pay almost double to get SanDisk’s 2nd-most fastest microSD card.The Ultra works perfectly fine for my style of usage (storing/capturing pictures & HD video and movie playback) on my phone. So in the end, I ended up just buying another SanDisk Ultra 64GB card. I use my cell phone more than I do my tablet and if the card is good enough for my phone, it’s good enough for my tablet. I don’t own a 4K HD camera or anything like that, so I honestly didn’t see a need to get one of the faster cards at this time.I am now a proud owner of 2 SanDisk Ultra cards and have absolutely 0 issues with it in my Samsung devices.I haven’t had to buy a microSD card in a long time. The last time I bought one was for my cell phone over 2 years ago. But since my cellular contract was up, I knew I would have to get a newer card in addition to my new phone, the Samsung Galaxy S4. Reason for this is because I knew my small 16GB microSD card wasn’t going to cut it.Doing research on the Galaxy S4, I wanted to get the best card possible that had decent capacity (32 GB or greater). This led me to find that the Galaxy S4 supports the microSDXC Class 10 UHS-I card, which is the fastest possible given that class. Searching for that specifically on Amazon gave me results of only 3 vendors (as of April) that makes these microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 cards. They are Sandisk (the majority), Samsung and Lexar. Nobody else makes these that are sold on Amazon.Seeing how SanDisk is a pretty good name out of the 3 (I’ve used them the most), I decided upon the SanDisk because Lexar was overpriced and the Samsung one was overpriced (as well as not eligible for Amazon Prime).But the scary thing is that when you filter by the SanDisk, you literally get DOZENS of options. All of them have different model numbers, different sizes, etc. Then there’s that confusion of what’s the difference between SDHC & SDXC?SDHC vs SDXC:SDHC stand for “Secure Digital High Capacity” and SDXC stands for “Secure Digital eXtended Capacity”. Essentially these two cards are the same with the exception that SDHC only supports capcities up to 32GB and is formated with the FAT32 file system. The SDXC cards are formatted with the exFAT file system. If you use an SDXC card in a device, it must support that file system, otherwise it may not be recognizable and/or you have to reformat the card to FAT32.FAT32 vs exFAT:The differences between the two file systems means that FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB, limited by that file system. exFAT on the otherhand, supports file sizes up to 2TB (terabytes). The only thing you need to know here really is that it’s possible your device doesn’t support exFAT. If that’s the case, just reformat it to FAT32. REMEMBER FORMATTING ERASES ALL DATA!To clarify the model numbers, I I hopped over to the SanDisk official webpage. What I found there is that they offer two “highspeed” options for SanDisk cards. These are SanDisk Extreme Pro and SanDisk Ultra. SanDisk Extreme Pro is a line that supports read speeds up to 95MB/sec, however they are SDHC only. To make things worse, they are currently only available in 16GB & 8GB capacities. Since one of my requirements was to have a lot of storage, I ruled these out.The remaining devices listed on Amazon’s search were the SanDisk Ultra line. But here, confusion sets in because SanDisk separates these cards to two different devices. Cameras & mobile devices. Is there a real difference between the two or is this just a marketing stunt? Unfortunately I’m not sure but I do know the price difference between the two range from a couple cents to a few dollars. Since I wasn’t sure, I opted for the one specifically targeted for mobile devices (just in case there is some kind of compatibility issue). To find the exact model number, I would go to Sandisk’s webpage (sandisk.com) and compare their existing product lineup. From there, you get exact model numbers and you can then search Amazon for these model numbers. That is how I got mine (SDSDQUA-064G).As for speed tests, I haven’t run any specific testing, but copying 8 GB worth of data from my PC to the card literally took just a few minutes.One last note is that Amazon attaches additional characters to the end (for example SDSDQUA-064G-AFFP-A vs SDSDQUA-064G-U46A). The difference between the two is that the “AFFP-A” means “Amazon Frustration Free Packaging”. Other than that, these are exactly the same. If you’re wondering what I got (and want to use it in your Galaxy S4), I got the SDSDQUA-064G-u46A and it works like charm.

Top of the class among all (budget-priced) micro-SDHC cards I have tested / Works great in Galaxy S3

I have tested dozens of SDHC and micro-SDHC cards. One disturbing trend I noticed is that: the speed class rating for micro-SDHC is typically inflated. For example, a ‘class-10’ rating means the card must deliver a sequential write speed of at least 10MB/s. But somehow, a class-10 microSDHC cards is always slower than a class-10 SDHC card from the same manufacturer. Case in point: the PNY 32 GB microSDHC Card (P-SDU32G10-EFS2) claims to be ‘class-10’, yet it can only write at 8.6MB/s maximum, while the full-size PNY P-SDHC16G10 achieved 13.4MB/s according to CrystalDiskMark v3.01.This SanDisk Ultra 32 GB microSDHC Class 10 UHS-1 card (SDSDQUA-032G-U46A), however, proves to be the exception. It achieved a sequential write speed of over 10MB/s according to two different benchmark programs (11.8MB/s in “CrystalDiskMark”, 10.6MB/s in “H2testw v1.4”). This is faster than all my other microSDHC cards, including two ‘class-10’ cards from PNY and Polaroid.A closer look at the file transfer speed using “Flash Memory Toolkit” revealed another nice surprise: For writing small files, this Sandisk Ultra microSDHC card performed just as well as its full-size counterpart, the SanDisk Ultra SDHC (SDSDU-032G-AFFP). In contrast, all my other class-10 microSDHC cards perform poorly while writing smaller files. See the benchmark results I uploaded to ‘Customer Images’ for details.When you use a memory card in a digital camera to record HD video, it needs to store a huge video file each session. That means its sequential write speed is most critical. When used in a tablet or a smart phone, however, the card’s random write speed for small files is more important. That’s why in such applications, the Sandisk microSDHC will perform faster than the PNY and Polaroid cards, even though they are also rated as ‘class-10’.[Bottom Line]As of this writing, the Sandisk Ultra microSDHC card ia actually priced lower than other class-10 cards from PNY and Polaroid. This makes the Sandisk the best value - especially if you need honest class-10 performance across all platforms.[Side Notes]- Do not confuse this Sandisk Ultra card with SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC (SDSDQY-032G-U46A). The latter is rated for class-6 only.- The size of this ‘32GB’ card is 29.7GB according to my computer. This is actually normal because computer people count one Gig as “2 to the power 30”, which is 7.3% larger than one billion. So 29.7GB translates to 31.9 billion bytes, which is ‘32GB’ according to marketing people.[Update on Feb 4, 2013]1. Amazon combined the Sandisk Ultra 32GB and 64GB cards on the same product page. Please beware that your intended appliance must be compatible with ‘SDXC’ in order to used the 64GB version. My original review refers to the 32GB ‘SDHC’ version.2. There are two part numbers for the same card. If you start from the Amazon product page and select ‘Retail Packaging’, you’ll see the part number of SDSDQUA-032G-U46A. But if you click on ‘Frustration Free Package’, the part number changes to SDSDQU-032G-AFFP-A.[Update on Oct 5, 2013]The Sandisk microSDHC card works great in my new Samsung Galaxy S3, without the need for reformat (the default format is FAT32)[Update on Dec 26, 2013]My old test results were limited by the card reader and USB 2.0 port used. I re-tested the Sandisk UHS1 micro card using the Transcend RDF5 Card Reader connected to an USB 3.0 port. Here are the results from ‘CrystalDiskMark 3.01 x64’:- Sequential Read speed = 40.0MB/s (was 34.8MB/s when connected to USB 2.0 port)- Sequential Write speed = 13.1MB/s (was 12.6MB/s when connected to USB 2.0 port)

Five Stars

Excellent

Still working!

Still working after a year. Don’t forget to make backups anyway!

Five Stars

Best, #1

Five Stars

Has been working for a few years now. No issues

Very reliable

No problems at all! Going on my fourth one!

Your product could be a FAKE!!

I know SanDisk to be a popular microSD card seller, but I got robbed when my microSD card turned out to be a fake. The card is supposed to be class 10, but I received a class 1.

Great so far, as described, would recommend

I’m using this in an LG Optimus L70 (LGMS323) with Metro PCS. I had a 16GB card and ran out of space for music.

Don’t forget to remember Sandisk is a quality brand for memory products

We bought this about 3-years ago, and it’s still going strong. There are faster and bigger memory modules available, but this works fine for our phones.

Two Stars

Very unreliable. Cannot use it due to errors. junk for brand name item. Lexar is better

just as expected, excellent price

just as expected, excellent price

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