Best memory card for your DJI Mavic
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msinger
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Aren't sure which memory card is best for your DJI Mavic? This article explains how to decipher the symbols on the front of Micro SD memory cards and explains how to choose a memory card that will best fit your needs:

Best memory card for your DJI Mavic


2018-11-14
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DJI Stephen
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Hello msinger. Good day and thank you for providing this very helpful information to us and thank you for your support as well.
2018-11-14
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jacksonnai
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Great information
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Ryan Olivas
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Very informative. This answers a lot of common questions on this forum.
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JAgraphics
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Very useful.  I use 64GB and change each time it lands or I change battery.
I could use 16GB but the sweet spot on on the pricing was 64GB.

There are other reasons for using a larger card
1 If I need to fly again and have no spare card  I can.
2 Wear levelling.  the SDCH Extreme cards from Sandisk have this . It evens out the usage of the memory use across the memory on the card.   Flash memory has a finite number or write/re-wrtie cycles.  Therefore a 64GB card will last 4 times longer than a 16GB card if you change it each time you fly/change battery   (at the moment 1 * 64GB card costs a lot less thah 4* 16GB cards)
2018-11-18
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HendrikJB
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Thank you for the information.
2018-11-27
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HendrikJB
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JAgraphics Posted at 11-18 14:26
Very useful.  I use 64GB and change each time it lands or I change battery.
I could use 16GB but the sweet spot on on the pricing was 64GB.

Interesting workflow.

With Mavic Air this is really a tedious process as it is very difficult to remove and re-insert the memory card. Thus the higher capacity card is most definitely a requirement.
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A CW
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Good info - thanks for sharing.
2018-11-27
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128gb skandisk 3 100 mbits per second
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HendrikJB Posted at 11-27 12:33
Interesting workflow.

With Mavic Air this is really a tedious process as it is very difficult to remove and re-insert the memory card. Thus the higher capacity card is most definitely a requirement.

In this case I agree, despite the increased risk of loss of data (if you loose the drone)  In which case the wear levelling is even more important. So use a larger card than you would normaly need.
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JAgraphics Posted at 12-4 06:02
In this case I agree, despite the increased risk of loss of data (if you loose the drone)  In which case the wear levelling is even more important. So use a larger card than you would normaly need.

Thank you for your comment.

However let me tell you something you might or might not be aware of.

Photo`s are saved as thumbnails on the mobile device one uses BUT
Video is apparently saved in full resolution.

Thus, one might in most situations or the loss of a drone, be able to get the data (photo`s and video`s)  from the mobile device.
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