Micro SD Card Compatability?

[johnsmith222]

Hi guys,

I do not know a lot about micro SD cards so please bear with me.

I have a Sony ICD-AX412F dictaphone recorder for recording my uni lectures. The recorder does have a memory card slot on the side. All the unit says is "M2 and Micro SD".

I purchased this Micro SD card so that I wouldn't need to worry about running out of space during a lecture:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-40Mbs-Class-UHS-I-SR-16UYA/dp/B00CBPNZRW/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1379220354&sr=8-11&keywords=sony+sd+16gb

The model is the SR-16UY and is a Micro SDHC card. The claimed read speed is 40MB/s. According to the amazon ad this is a class 10 card.

I have managed to find a compatibility chart for my dictaphone which may help in establishing whether the card is compatible.

https://esupport.sony.com/LA/p/support-info.pl?Change_Template=1&session_id=f822a973e8778b7bc44df7ec3e66d416&mdl=ICDAX412&info_id=594

I was sure what I was ordering was the correct thing, but when I saw that the packaging said Micro SDHC UHS-I and the unit just said "Micro SD" that kind of threw me.

I'd appreciate the help as I don't want to open the packaging and then find it doesn't work and not be able to swap it for the one I need.

Thank you for any help!

[FriendlyEllis]

Its the same thing
SD secure digital
SDHC secure digital high capacity

So long as its micro!!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sdhc

[FriendlyEllis]

Its the same thing
SD secure digital
SDHC secure digital high capacity

So long as its micro!!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sdhc

[J.M.]

[prawny1]

Low level format the card and put it into the Dictaphone raw, your Dictaphone will hopefully recognise and format the card itself, if it doesn't then try a standard format with widows etc.

Formatting normally just marks the drive as empty leaving the data still there until that part is overwritten, but a low level format will write zeros across the drive as it would have been from the factory

https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

These types of tools shouldn't be used (unless they are designed for) ssd's as an ssd flash memory uses one's to represent an empty state for it's memory cell and uses zero's to repisent full, so writing zeros to a complete drive will shorten it's life as all the cells will need to be reset.

This is the same reason you shouldn't use ccleaners wipe free space function on an ssd (some would argue not to use ccleaner at all as it write zero as an erase).
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