Drift Ghost S Micro Sd Card Advice

[SpartanHDX]

Can't find any recommended Micro SD Cards via a Google search, so I'm hoping that any Ghost S owners can help me out. I currently have a Kingston 16GB Class 4 Micro SD Card in it. A quick test (1080p @ 60fps, high bitrate, no external microphone) went all right, no issues when playing the footage back on my PC.

For some reason I feel that 16GB won't be enough (will it?). I plan on recording rides when I'm not motovlogging too, just in case. When recording in 1080p/60fps, does anyone know how much storage space on average a minutes worth of recording comes to?

 

[Lurch]

I bought a SanDisk ultra mega thing (gold one) 64GB SDXC for about £33 off Amazon.

64GB @ 1080p/60fps is about five-ish hours of footage.

 

[SpartanHDX]

I bought a SanDisk ultra mega thing (gold one) 64GB SDXC for about £33 off Amazon.

64GB @ 1080p/60fps is about five-ish hours of footage.

Five-ish hours of footage... Sounds great! Maybe the 32GB one will be better for me... We'll see...

Thanks Lurch!

 

[dandoolittle]

SanDisk 32 gigs for me. I prefer to buy from Amazon as well, eBay is full of fakes

 

[SpartanHDX]

SanDisk 32 gigs for me. I prefer to buy from Amazon as well, eBay is full of fakes

Yeah Amazon is the only place I trust when buying products like that. I once bought a 64 GB card (don't remember the make) only to find out 4GB of it was usable, the 60GB was... Well I don't even know how to describe it XD

The thing is my current Kingston Class 4 is working well while testing, when my adhesive mount comes I'll see if it holds up when filming a bike ride.

 

[SwissMotard]

With cards lower than Class 10/U1 you may find that they corrupt/stop recording randomly when they can't write fast enough at certain points if you're recording above 720p30.

 

[dandoolittle]

Pound land do double sided foam tape. Better than 3m lol

 

[SpartanHDX]

With cards lower than Class 10/U1 you may find that they corrupt/stop recording randomly when they can't write fast enough at certain points if you're recording above 720p30.

Oh, that's a very good point, thank you!

The good thing is I have another Sandisk 16GB class 10 that's currently being used with a tablet, I'll swap it out with my Kingston

Pound land do doubke sided foam tape. Better than 3m lol

Although, you're in Switzerland, pound land isn't

Uhm... I'm not in Switzerland.... Were you talking to SwissMotard?

 

[SwissMotard]

Pound land do doubke sided foam tape. Better than 3m lol

Although, you're in Switzerland, pound land isn't

Why do I need double sided tape? I'm so confused!

I'm in the UK this week anyway, hence the colourful flag next to my name for a while

 

[SpartanHDX]

 

[RoninK6]

Pound land do doubke sided foam tape. Better than 3m lol

Well, if you're taking the camera on & off and are replacing the tape every time, then I guess it's a good thing ~

 

[Carmo]

One minute = around 100mb last time I tried to figure it out. I have a 32 gb card and used that over a two week period on a road trip (my random observations video) and didn't fill it up. 32gb gives you the ability to record as much as you want for as long as you want ( depending on how often to move footage off the memory card)

 

[Marbro_za]

i have 4 32gb cards, but thats just for extended time away from my pc where i dump my vids

I generally run with one card, battery life isnt good enough to fill the card up without needing to be charged.

also, never go less than class 10..ever

 

[Lurch]

60GB out of 64 is about correct. a 64GB card can't actually take 64GB, about 63.5 or something like that. Cameras won't write to a card if there is insufficient space for the file, and a full segment of the HD resolutions can be up to 4.2GB.

 

[RoninK6]

That's where the Sony Action Cam falls short... two hours of recording uses up most of a 32GB card in mp4 format . Ah well, luckily the battery dies before then (I guess ~).....

 

[SwissMotard]

60GB out of 64 is about correct. a 64GB card can't actually take 64GB, about 63.5 or something like that. Cameras won't write to a card if there is insufficient space for the file, and a full segment of the HD resolutions can be up to 4.2GB.

The storage capacity is lost through 2 processes:

1 - The lies manufacturers tell you about capacity. They say 1000MB is 1GB, while really it's 1024MB as any piece of electronics will tell you, such as a camera or PC. This is just marketing so they can sell you less capacity.

2 - Formatting overheads as an inherent part of your file structure. Devices such as your PC or camera will only tell you how much memory it is able to reference/use, which doesn't include any of the file structure data such as MFTs etc.

 

[SpartanHDX]

60GB out of 64 is about correct. a 64GB card can't actually take 64GB, about 63.5 or something like that. Cameras won't write to a card if there is insufficient space for the file, and a full segment of the HD resolutions can be up to 4.2GB.

60GB was unusable, up to around 4GB was

 

[RoninK6]

60GB was unusable, up to around 4GB was

Did you try reformatting the card ???

 

[SpartanHDX]

Did you try reformatting the card ???

Tried many things, but it was an ebay card so I should've expected something to go wrong.

 

[SwissMotard]

That sounds like the exact behaviour of the fake cards.