How to buy an old-school basic, no-extra-letters Micro SD card?

October 11, 2022 1:06 AM

I have an older Samsung Galaxy Note Pro (I think) Android tablet that can take a Micro SD card. I think I need plain Jane 64 MB Micro SD, but searching for that only turns up Micro SDXC or SDHC. Any suggestions? Vendors with a really good search interface?
posted by amtho to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

From guesswork: consider mouser or digikey?
posted by sebastienbailard at 1:54 AM on October 11, 2022

Best answer: If it's a Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 then it supports a microSD card up to 64GB (not 64MB).

An SD card between 2GB and 32GB is a SDHC card, by definition.

An SD card between 32GB and 2TB is a SDXC card, by definition.

You can see in the Galaxy Note Pro specs that it says "SDHC/SDXC SD Card: Yes" (and "External Memory/microSD Capacity (Up to 64GB)").

So you're fine to buy a 64GB Micro SDXC card.
posted by Klipspringer at 2:42 AM on October 11, 2022 [13 favorites]

Anything over 2GB is not going to be a strict SD. Just the convention has been to refer to anything in that form factor as MicroSD, regardless of the technology underlying it. Klipspringer is correct that you're fine with both larger formats.
posted by Candleman at 7:14 AM on October 11, 2022 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: ...What I'm hearing is that the 64GB card that I got at Walgreens _should_ work, and now I have to figure out why. OK, good.
posted by amtho at 10:20 AM on October 11, 2022