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Some Android devices allow you to set an SD card as the default storage. In this state, the card functions as an expansion of your Android device's internal memory, allowing you to download more apps, games, and movies. While most modern Android phones don't come with SD card slots, our favorite Android tablets usually come with support.
How to enable an SD card for storage on a Chromebook
Put your downloads on an SD card instead of your Chromebook's precious internal storage
Whether you're rocking a top-of-the-line Chromebook or our favorite budget ChromeOS devices, at some point, you may want to expand your storage. Downloading content from apps like Netflix or Plex takes up a lot of space, so you'll want to install an SD or MicroSD card to avoid filling up your laptop's internal storage.
Stock up on SD and MicroSD cards with meaty Black Friday discounts at Amazon
Give your files some breathing room — at a discount!
In the old days, giving the gift of a new gadget meant that you had to include a pack of fresh batteries. Now that everything is rechargeable, we can leave the pack of AAs on the shelf; but there’s a good chance those new toys require a memory card to be useful. Whether you’re shopping for others or yourself, there’s no reason not to save a few bucks picking out memory cards for that new gear during Amazon’s Black Friday discounts.
Amazon has a ton of memory cards on sale for up to 50% off, today only
Stock up on some extra storage
Even if your phone doesn't have room for expandable storage anymore, SD cards can still come in handy. Whether you're looking to offload your photo and video collection or you're backing up essential documents on your laptop, it can't hurt to have a few memory cards lying around the house. For today's Deal of the Day at Amazon, you can save up to 50% on a whole host of SD cards, MicroSD cards, and flash drives — but you'll have to act fast.You'll want to check out everything Amazon has on sale over at its deals hub, but here are just a few of the offerings worth grabbing today, all at new lows:
Amazon has dozens of memory cards and hard drives on sale for up to 40% off today
Just what you want, memory from 2020
In case you hadn't heard, there is a big sale going on right now. Don't worry, we won't hold it against you if this is somehow the first time you're hearing about it... in late November. But you know the deal, if there's even a hint of something going on sale, Amazon will have a few pages of deals on memory cards, SSDs, and hard drives. These are all Deal of the Day offers, so the discounts technically go away at midnight (PDT), but it wouldn't be surprising if many of these reappear over the weekend.Some items are going for almost half-off, so there's a good chance you'll find something worth picking up. There are two separate pages on Amazon with different selections of products featuring something from just about every major brand in the storage game, including SanDisk, LaCie, Seagate, Western Digital, PNY, Synology, and others.
Save up to 43% off SD cards, flash drives, and more with today's sale at Amazon
Time to store those pesky files taking up space on your desktop
Even the best devices these days run out of storage eventually. That's why it's important to have reliable backups like SD cards, USB sticks, and hard drives on hand. In Amazon's Deal of the Day today, the company is offering big savings on data storage options from brands like PNY, Lexar, Seagate, and more.You can check out the entire lineup of deals over at Amazon's DOTD hub, but here's a summary of some of the best options available:
Amazon has dozens of microSD cards and other storage on sale for up to 50% off this Prime Day
All shapes, all sizes, only two days
If Prime Day shopping has led you to picking up some fun new gear, there's a decent chance you're also looking for some accessories to make the best of it. One of the most common add-ons you'll need for that new drone or camera is some extra storage. It will come as no surprise that Amazon has you covered there, too — microSD cards, SD cards, thumb drives, SSDs, hard drives, and even NAS systems in any capacity for any particular situation.
Another day on the Amazon Deals of the Day carousel and this go-around, we're hitting up the storage device manufacturer PNY. If you want a 512GB SD card for well under $100, a 256GB microSD for under $40, or the best price on a 256GB USB-C drive, all of them are on sale until midnight PDT.The PNY Elite 256GB USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C flash drive has a necessarily long name thanks to the USB Promoters Group, but what it is able to do for your computer or phone is to read files at up to 130MB per second. The connector is also retractable, too.
The official rollout of Android 9 Pie to the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ is underway, but there's one feature that didn't quite make the cut. Although it didn't actually work in the beta, there was a screen that suggested an adoptable storage option, but it's nowhere to be seen in the stable release.
The varying bus types, speed classes, and specification standards for SD cards can be confusing for the layman to navigate, but performance for the diminutive storage devices has been making a lot of progress over recent years. You can even buy one with over 500GB of capacity in a package smaller than a postage stamp, and now the SD Association is setting its sights on even bigger and faster cards with the new SD Express and SD Ultra Capacity standards as part of the SD 7.0 spec.
With that other major news event out of the way, it's time to move on to more interesting news – Google app updates. Late last night brought us a version bump to Google Photos. While there haven't been any notable changes popping into view yet, a teardown does present some pretty interesting revelations for the future. Fans of the free original storage promotion might soon have some options to enjoy that with other phones. If you've felt like SD card support wasn't up to snuff, there's reason to think that might be getting better soon. And finally, Austin has reappeared with the most curious of features yet.
The SD Association is the trade group which oversees the specification for (you guessed it) SD cards. SD Specification 5.1 is about to roll out, and there's something of particular interest for Android users in there—a new app performance class for cards that have been certified to be fast enough to run apps on your phone.
I'm a fan of microSD card slots. I know, I know, there's absolutely no reason to have this debate right now. You either prefer to have expandable memory or you don't particularly care.If you're on #TeamGiveMeMoreCheapStoragePlease, then now may be a good time to head over to Amazon. Flash memory of all kinds is on sale there for up to 70% off. The 128GB microSD is going for a mere .99. The full-sized alternative is just .99. A massive 256GB SD card costs a bit more, at $64.99, but that may be enough storage to stick in your PC and effectively double the size of your SSD. Alternatively, you can grab a 128GB flash drive for .99.Small sizes are available too, and they cost less as you go down. You're welcome to go that route if you're inclined to view carrying around over 100GB of data on a mobile phone as overkill.You can browse the full selection at the link below.Source: Amazon
Google may not love SD cards anymore, but there are still plenty of users who do. If you're packing an SD card in your phone or tablet, there's a surprise coming your way. The v37 beta release of Facebook can be moved from the internal storage to the SD card, but there are some weird things going on with the implementation.
You know how Google hates microSD cards and everything they stand for? Well, Android M might signal a change of heart. In the dev preview, there's support for adopting removable storage as part of the system and treating it as internal. You can also plug in and use USB drives on stock Android without any additional apps.
[Deal Alert] Lexar UHS-II SD And UHS-I MicroSD Memory Cards In 32GB, 64GB, And 128GB Sizes At Deep Discounts For Amazon Gold Box Deal Of The Day
As Gold Box deals, they will be gone either by the end of the day or when Amazon runs out of stock, whichever comes first.
Today's Amazon Gold Box daily deal is all about Lexar memory, and in not-so-modest sizes and speeds. Nope, these are not your bottom of the barrel memory cards and flash drives on offer. Those most relevant to your phone needs, the microSD cards, boast UHS-I/U3 speeds, meaning they meet the second-most rigorous speed specification in the industry. The deals are good too, matching the lowest price Amazon has ever offered for them.
You can never have too many SD cards. By the time you have one in all of your devices, the next thing you know, you have another device. After that, an old one gets filled up. What's a person to do? Simple, wait for deals.Today Amazon has a big heaping helping of memory cards on sale for as low as $7.99 (16GB). For people with more demanding storage needs, the 64GB MicroSD card is marked down to $26.49. That sure beats paying anywhere from double to quadruple that price elsewhere.