SanDisk 8GB microSD High Capacity (microSDHC) Card - 8 GB

by SanDisk

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches ; 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000WH6H1M
• Item model number: SDSDQ-8192-E11M
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #10 in Electronics > Camera & Photo > Accessories > Digital Camera Accessories > Memory Cards > Micro SD Cards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 29, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

SanDisk® microSDHC™ 8GB Memory Card with SD™ Adapter

Your phone goes everywhere you do, so put it to good use. With a SanDisk® microSDHC™ memory card, you can fit more on your phone and move it between devices with ease. Videos, tunes, pics, ring tones, games, data—it all fits, with room for more.

So wake up your phone™ with:

More tunes — up to 1,000 songs with you everywhere you go
More photos — over 1,200 shots of whatever you want
More videos and movies — up to 21 hours worth—great for your next flight from Reno to Reykjavik by way of Rome
More games — room for so many games your thumbs may cramp up

¹1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes. 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus is not available for data storage. ²Number of MP3s. Approximation based on 4-minute MP3 songs at 128 Kbps. ³JPEG images. Approximation based on 5MP camera. Actual number of photos may vary based on phone model, resolution and compression. ⁴Length in hours. Approximation for MPEG-4 video at 1.5Mbps. Actual time may vary based on resolution and compression. ⁵Memory space for e-mail or games. Actual map data size varies by the country and region. Check with GPS Navigation map data provider for actual memory space required.
© 2009 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Choose SanDisk, the minds behind flash memory As the pioneers of flash memory, SanDisk is known all over the planet. Wherever people take pictures, listen to music, use cell phones—or do much of anything at all with digital devices—they’re likely to be using a SanDisk memory card. That’s because, after 20 years in the business, SanDisk is still making some of the most trusted memory products anywhere.

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Product Description

SanDisk is proud to announce our newest format and capacity to the SD card family, microSD High Capacity (microSDHC) 8GB flash card. High storage capacity (8GB) for storing essential digital content such as high quality photos, videos, music and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

100 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works with the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, January 20, 2008

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N. Singleton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SanDisk 8GB microSD High Capacity (microSDHC) Card - 8 GB (Accessory)

Compatibility
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I bought this along with a Sandisk MicroSD-to-MiniSD Adapter (Bulk Static Package) for use with my Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. It was detected fine after insertion, not requiring any further installation or OS updates to detect and use all 7.44GB (see below). Make sure your device specifically supports SDHC (different from regular SD) type memory cards before you buy or else you might be limited to using only 2GB or 4GB of space (if it works at all). Also, this card should function perfectly in any devices that accept full-size SDHC cards, simply insert the MicroSDHC card into a MicroSD-to-MiniSD adapter, and insert that into a MiniSD-to-SD adapter.

Speed
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This is a Class 4 card meaning that it gets real-world performance of about 4MB (1 MB = 2^20 bytes) sustained write speed, which is about what I've experienced with it. It feels quite acceptably fast for most applications. For example, playing back WVGA resolution 1.5mbps H.264/AVC video plays back smoothly at full 24 fps. This card can hold approximately 8-9 feature-length movies at these settings.

In the Box
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This package includes the 8GB MicroSDHC card and an extremely small USB 2.0 MicroSDHC reader which can, for example, be plugged directly into a Mac/Windows system to function as a sizable USB thumb drive. There are no moving parts on the reader. An optional mini-lanyard is also included for use with the reader. This does not come with a MiniSD adapter, a full SD adapter, cables, or any other accessories. The MicroSDHC card is *very* small, in case you haven't seen them in real life, they are much smaller than they appear in the pictures. In my case, it's actually smaller than my thumbnail. Be advised that if you don't have a safe storage place for it, it will, no doubt, get lost very quickly.

Capacity
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Be aware that even though this is advertised as 8GB, it is notated as 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes or 10^9 bytes (decimal definition) while most all computer systems will interpret it as the binary definition: 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes or 2^30 bytes. This means that the actual usable capacity is actually approximately 8*0.93 = 7.44GB (i.e. about 7.44GB of actual space, not the full 8GB). This isn't a con, just saying don't be surprised when you get it installed and it's not the full 8GB.

File systems
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This card comes pre-formatted with FAT32 which is compatible with most operating systems and mobile devices. You can, of course, format it yourself to whatever other file system you want such as NTFS, HFS+, ext3, and so forth. If you don't know which file system you need, chances are you won't have to change it at all as FAT32 is compatible with numerous devices and operating systems. Check your device's documentation for file system compatibility information specific to your device. Be aware that if you format this using the FAT16 file system (might be required for some legacy hardware) you will only be able to use 4GB of the card's total capacity (minus the additional decimal-to-binary conversion loss as explained above).

Pricing
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I bought this for around 140 USD just a week ago, and in that short amount of time the price has already dropped to only about 90 USD, this is certainly a great deal, and I would definitely expect it to fall more as time goes on, especially once the expected 12GB and 16GB capacity cards are available.

Authenticity
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Just as you would expect from Amazon.com (and partners), this is, without a doubt, a genuine SanDisk memory card. I have specifically verified the security hologram on the packaging to have the following authentication features: 1) Large sparkling 'star' sign in the top right hand corner of the rectangular block with embedded SanDisk logo. 2) Unique, ten-digit SanDisk Serial Number along the bottom. 3) Embedded logo block has a unique amount of virtual dots on the left, right, top and bottom when viewed at the appropriate angles. 4) Dots are white on black (new feature introduced in 2007). 5) Secondary SanDisk logo visible *underneath* the first holographic logo.

The Future
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According to Engadget, SanDisk has announced at CES 2008 a 16GB MicroSDHC card which will be available in June 2008, so if you want more capacity than this 8GB version, I'd recommend waiting to get the future 16GB version which is said to be compatible with all current compliant MicroSDHC devices (including the N810). The SDHC specification allows for cards all the way up to 2048GB (that's two terabytes!), so expect bigger and cheaper cards to be released regularly.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 8gb Sandisk MicroSDHC memory card, January 6, 2008

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Luke Cassar (Sydney, NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SanDisk 8GB microSD High Capacity (microSDHC) Card - 8 GB (Accessory)

The card worked perfectly with my Australian Nokia N95, flashed with the latest Nokia firmware at the time (something to the effect of 20.0.0.15). Did not have to do anything special, just plugged it in, checked the memory and sure enough, there it was at the correct size.

The included USB adapter is really handy, allowing the card to be plugged straight into a USB port without the need for MicroSD to SD adapter followed by an SD to USB or card reader. So it is also useful as a USB key.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM" review is inacurate, March 16, 2008

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SFBayAreaDIY "Carl" (Concord, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: SanDisk 8GB microSD High Capacity (microSDHC) Card - 8 GB (Accessory)

The key to this review is:

"I then formatted the memory card just as I do to all new memory cards, and the memory went down to 3.6 GBs."

The poster must have reformatted the card to FAT16 from the factory format of FAT32. FAT16 only supports a maximum of 4GB, which is why the card seems to have lost half of its capacity. If the reviewer had left the formatting alone, or reformatted as FAT32, he/she would still have the approximately 8GB of capacity.