2 thoughts on “Sony 32GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 R40 Memory Card (SF32UY/TQMN)”

1. 33 of 36 people found the following review helpful

   
   Very nice SDHC card with very fast read speeds… but there are more affordable cards with comparable quality out there, April 18, 2013

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   D. Truong “El Duke” (New Mexico) –
   
     
   
     

   This review is from: Sony 32GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 R40 Memory Card (SF32UY/TQMN) (Personal Computers)

   This Sony SDHC card is a pretty nice memory card. Although it is labeled to read up to 40 Mb/sec, I found that I actually got better speeds when reading from the card. I consistently got up to 64Mb/sec read speed…which is blazingly fast. Considering that Class 10 SDHC cards only have to meet 10 Mb/sec minimum requirements, this card went well above and beyond. I bought this card to use with my new Canon T3i DSLR camera, so this speed is coming in handy. In fact, if you are buying a card to use with a high resolution digital camera or hd camcorder… I wouldn’t recommend getting a card that is slower than a Class 10 card. With that being said, I would highly recommend this card for such purposes. It has one of the fastest ‘read’ speeds I have come across in an SD card. I haven’t yet tested the ‘write speed’ yet but I will post the results once I do.
   Now, although this card works very well… it isn’t the most affordable card I’ve come across. I’ve had very good luck with the brand ‘Transcend’ and their memory cards. I’d recommend you go check some of those reviews before you choose the card that works best for you. I have some reviews posted here at Amazon for Transcend brand SD, Micro-SDHC, and SDHC cards.

   Also, Did you know? :
   If you have many electronics that use Micro-SD cards (for example, perhaps your mobile phone), you should consider buying a Micro-SD card with a full-sized SDHC adapter. This will allow the Micro-SD card to be used in SDHC or SD devices as well. All you do is slide the micro-SD card into those full sized SDHC card adapters and put it in a compatible SDHC device and it will work. This versatility allows you to use that Micro-SD card in many devices instead of ust Micro-SD devices. There are also Mini-SD adapters that allow the Micro-SD card to be used in Mini-SD card devices too. Also, any brand Micro to SDHC adapter or Micro to Mini-SD adapter will work with your card, even if it doesn’t match the brand of your Micro-SD card. For example, you could buy a Transcend or Kingston brand Micro-SD card and use a Sandisk branded SDHC card adapter. That’s because they all use and meet the same SD card standard that was set to ensure compatibility.

   The last thing you should keep in mind while considering buying memory cards is that if you are buying an SD card for an older device (5 or more years old), make sure that it is compatible with the newer SDHC standard. New SDHC cards are not backwards compatible with older devices that were made to use only SD standard cards. If your device is not compatible with SDHC, you must make sure to buy a regular SD compatible card. However, if you have a new device that IS compatible with SDHC cards, your device is also compatible with older SD standard cards. For more details, see notes below.

   IMPORTANT SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT SDHC MEMORY CARDS:

   -SDHC cards are not compatible with most older SD cameras, SD devices, or SD card readers.

   -SDHC cards are rated by speed using different “classes”. There are currently 4 data transfer speed classes available for SDHC cards. These classes are “class 2, class 4, and class 6, and the new class 10. For example, “Class 2” would have the slowest read/write speed while “Class 10” currently has the fastest read/write speed. So if you have a device in which speed may play a crucial role, make sure you buy a higher “class” SDHC card. Please note that this SDHC card no longer has the fastest read/write speed available. There is now a new class, called “Class 10”. Class 6 has a minimum read/write speed of 6MB/sec… while Class 2 has minimum speed rating of 2MB/sec, and Class 4 is 4MB/sec. Starting to see the pattern?

   -SDHC cards are not only for digital cameras. Any device that is compatible with SDHC cards should work with this card. Just make sure that it takes a full-sized SDHC card. For example, there are some devices that use smaller cards… like Micro-SDHC or Mini-SDHC. If you have a Micro-SDHC or Mini-SDHC card already and want to use it in a full sized SDHC device, you can buy an adapter that can make those cards larger so that they can fit into a full sized SDHC card slot. However, you cannot make a full size SDHC card fit into a Micro-SDHC or Mini-SDHC slot.

   SO WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “SD CARDS” AND “SDHC CARDS?

   SDHC is basically an upgrade to the older SD cards. The reason they upgraded it was to achieve greater data transfer speeds AND capacity than previously possible with normal SD cards… and to do this, they had to redesign the card (which is why it’s not compatible with normal SD devices). This was necessary because digital cameras and digital video cameras these days have higher resolutions, which equate to larger file sizes and faster data transfer needs.

   Now that many digital cameras also can record HD video, you may consider getting a larger capacity card because video takes much…

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2. 16 of 19 people found the following review helpful

   
   Nice Card – Sony Won’t Recognize the Model for Warranty, March 15, 2013

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   Kentucky Colonel (Huron County, MI) –

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   This review is from: Sony 32GB SDHC/SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 R40 Memory Card (SF32UY/TQMN) (Personal Computers)

   I was delighted to get this at a very reasonable price, especially with the high data transfer rates listed. It arrived in retail packaging for US market, “made in Taiwan” and just as pictured in the listing. It passed the disk check without any issue and formatted perfectly in my device. I can’t comment on the UHS-1 speed as I do not have a device capable of that speed – so the actual transfer speed on my equipment is no different than my other Class 10 memory cards.

   The reason I’m giving it only four stars (rather than five, as I normally would do for something that works without any issues) is that I am unable to get the Sony website to recognize the model or serial number for product warranty registration. I don’t expect I’ll ever need it – but it means that I can’t download and use the “File Rescue” recovery software promised with the card because that needs a recognizable model and serial number to download. Maybe this particular model is too new for Sony to have it up on their website – but that’s their mistake, not mine.

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