Very useful review! I wonder if you could test other V60 rated cards, like from Lexar and ProGrade, as these hit the sweet spot between price and performance.
Thank you for your kind words. Not being a full time RUclipsr, I currently have no plans to review those cards. But should someone ever ship them to me, I would of course compare performance. What I can say for now though is that benchmarks with other fast cards show the Sony to be a top performer. You really can’t go wrong when choosing this card. I bought the Sony because it was the best, in my opinion, in terms of performance and durability among 128GB V60 cards, and the price was good too. Even if either of those cards you mentioned were a tad faster, still, neither could touch the Sony Tough in terms of durability.
@@JDW- I will order the Sony Tough M based on your recommendation, even though it's definitely at the high end of the price range. The selection of V60 cards is really small compared to V90. Maybe because the profit margin is smaller.
@@142tech I really do recommend it. I also own the slightly cheaper gray label card too, found here on Amazon: amzn.to/3cJWIMU But as you can see, it's only $5 or so cheaper. To me, that extra $5 is worth it to get a much more durable card.
The Sony reader is very impressive indeed. No to the hammer! It goes without saying that Sony has always made truly impressive hardware in so many categories. One of my favorite brands. In some ways the SD Card reminds me of the Sony 400/800/1.44 3.5 diskettes, at least in spirit. It doesn't share the same ubiquity that the 3.5" once did but perhaps I am mistaken. I really like SD Cards, they are a tad expensive for me in terms of $/byte but they are so portable.
Thanks for making time to watch and share your thoughts, Alex! To be honest, I would have purchased the 256GB version of the card if Japan's import tax laws were a bit more forgiving. Anything valued less than about US$100 is not taxed (personal import), so I would have had to pay 10% tax on the larger card. But so long as I shoot in LongGOP, a 128GB card is perfect. Recently, I have been shooting a new video and I was shocked that my Sony Tough 128GB card was filling up so fast and stopping the camera during recording. Silly me, I forgot I left the camera in All-I mode which shoots 400Mbps instead of 150Mbps. LongGOP video compression is an SD card's BEST FRIEND, let me tell you!
I was not aware how slow the internal SD card slots are. I have a late 2012 iMac 21.5 and I’ve been waiting for the next iteration M1 ARM iMac. I normally buy new machines every 8-10 years at the time they update the design. Unfortunately, besides loss of Windows support, I suspect we will lose the SD card slot entirely. Rumors have it that 24” and 30” is in the works so I’m excited to upgrade screen size as well. Most people don’t realize SD cards have maximum read/write cycles and most people will simply buy the largest and cheapest. I think this is a mistake. The Sony Tough SD card seems to fit the bill.
Apple has made a lot of very odd and perplexing design decisions though the years. It has long made zero sense to me that they removed that important slot on all notebooks, yet keep the slot in all iMacs, including the iMac Pro. So it really could go either way with the M1 (M1X? M2?) iMac. Even so, the current M1 Macs are very lackluster in terms of ports and external connectivity, so that could be what Apple does to its other Apple Silicon Mac models too. I certainly hope not, but there's no way to know right now. Speed is important, but I especially like the Sony Tough card for its durability. That's most important to me, and no other SD card offers that. When they first came out in 2018, they were only available in Europe and way overprice, but today you can buy them just about anywhere and as mentioned in my video the pricing isn't bad at all, especially if you are based in the US.
Wondering if you’ve heard of the Delkin Black SD cards, or considered them? I know they make high end Enterprise / Military grade type of SSDs.. I heard about them 2 years ago, when I was looking for some SD cards, but since I don’t pull them out that much, I purchased a 64MB San Disk.. I also think Kingston made a similar “more robust” type of card... Delkin Black : www.delkindevices.com/delkin-black/
I had not heard of Delkin Black SD cards until you very kindly mentioned them, thank you. Interestingly, I cannot find them on Amazon, so folks who prefer to buy there would find an advantage in the Sony Tough cards. Also, the Delkin Black cards seem to only be available in more expensive V90 versions, unlike Sony Tough which offers very reasonably priced V60 versions (the M-Series that I purchased and reviewed). I also see the upper WRITE speed of the Delkin Black is capped at 250MB/s while the Sony Tough G-series upper limit is 299MB/s. Even so, the Sony G-series 128GB Tough card is $30 more than the Delkin. It does appear the Black cards came out in 2018, but despite that B&H shows only 4 reviews of the Black card versus 157 for the Sony Tough -- perhaps a different in name brand recognition. The B&H page for the Delkin Black is here: bhpho.to/39wm1Ae
I faced with an issue when Sony Tough card is write protected in my card-reader( but OK for Canon R6) which is obviously nonsense because it doesn't have this slider. What can be wrong with it?
Not sure about that unless the reader has a defect. I've been using my Sony Tough cards in my Panasonic GH5 camera, in the SONY Reader, and inserted directly into my iMacs and MacBook Pro computers without any issue over the past year and a half. However, I do have an HP Calculator that had SD card issues until I fixed the reader. That solution probably won't help you, but here's my video about that: ruclips.net/video/ETqQP_uxS44/видео.html
I'd like to point out that the slider on a SD card is passive and down to the reader or device like the old 3.5 floppy disk or VHS and the tab or cassette tapes.
It appears that you only skimmed my nightmarishly horrible video 🙄 and missed important content. You are mistaken about me not using the Sony Reader. Watch from 9:16 to see me testing the card in that reader! As such, switching your THUMBS DOWN to a Thumbs Up may be in order. But if not, that's okay too, because RUclips considers either kind of click "engagement" that benefits this channel. Same is true of comments. So thank you! 😀 By the way, the same Sony Reader works great in a USB-A to USB-C adapter on the most recent M1 Macs, and the speed is faster when using the reader than using the internal slot too. Apple dropped the ball even on their latest and greatest Macs by not using a fast reader. As is the case with some RUclips comments, it boggles the mind!
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Very useful review! I wonder if you could test other V60 rated cards, like from Lexar and ProGrade, as these hit the sweet spot between price and performance.
Thank you for your kind words. Not being a full time RUclipsr, I currently have no plans to review those cards. But should someone ever ship them to me, I would of course compare performance. What I can say for now though is that benchmarks with other fast cards show the Sony to be a top performer. You really can’t go wrong when choosing this card. I bought the Sony because it was the best, in my opinion, in terms of performance and durability among 128GB V60 cards, and the price was good too. Even if either of those cards you mentioned were a tad faster, still, neither could touch the Sony Tough in terms of durability.
@@JDW- I will order the Sony Tough M based on your recommendation, even though it's definitely at the high end of the price range. The selection of V60 cards is really small compared to V90. Maybe because the profit margin is smaller.
@@142tech I really do recommend it. I also own the slightly cheaper gray label card too, found here on Amazon: amzn.to/3cJWIMU
But as you can see, it's only $5 or so cheaper. To me, that extra $5 is worth it to get a much more durable card.
The Sony reader is very impressive indeed. No to the hammer! It goes without saying that Sony has always made truly impressive hardware in so many categories. One of my favorite brands.
In some ways the SD Card reminds me of the Sony 400/800/1.44 3.5 diskettes, at least in spirit. It doesn't share the same ubiquity that the 3.5" once did but perhaps I am mistaken.
I really like SD Cards, they are a tad expensive for me in terms of $/byte but they are so portable.
Thanks for making time to watch and share your thoughts, Alex!
To be honest, I would have purchased the 256GB version of the card if Japan's import tax laws were a bit more forgiving. Anything valued less than about US$100 is not taxed (personal import), so I would have had to pay 10% tax on the larger card. But so long as I shoot in LongGOP, a 128GB card is perfect. Recently, I have been shooting a new video and I was shocked that my Sony Tough 128GB card was filling up so fast and stopping the camera during recording. Silly me, I forgot I left the camera in All-I mode which shoots 400Mbps instead of 150Mbps. LongGOP video compression is an SD card's BEST FRIEND, let me tell you!
I was not aware how slow the internal SD card slots are. I have a late 2012 iMac 21.5 and I’ve been waiting for the next iteration M1 ARM iMac. I normally buy new machines every 8-10 years at the time they update the design. Unfortunately, besides loss of Windows support, I suspect we will lose the SD card slot entirely. Rumors have it that 24” and 30” is in the works so I’m excited to upgrade screen size as well. Most people don’t realize SD cards have maximum read/write cycles and most people will simply buy the largest and cheapest. I think this is a mistake. The Sony Tough SD card seems to fit the bill.
Apple has made a lot of very odd and perplexing design decisions though the years. It has long made zero sense to me that they removed that important slot on all notebooks, yet keep the slot in all iMacs, including the iMac Pro. So it really could go either way with the M1 (M1X? M2?) iMac. Even so, the current M1 Macs are very lackluster in terms of ports and external connectivity, so that could be what Apple does to its other Apple Silicon Mac models too. I certainly hope not, but there's no way to know right now.
Speed is important, but I especially like the Sony Tough card for its durability. That's most important to me, and no other SD card offers that. When they first came out in 2018, they were only available in Europe and way overprice, but today you can buy them just about anywhere and as mentioned in my video the pricing isn't bad at all, especially if you are based in the US.
Thanks for the great video, Mr. Slow-moving Object. 😄
For some real Slo-mo fun, click the gear icon in the bottom right of my video, then click Playback Speed and set it to 0.25! :-)
Thanks for this brilliant review.
Wondering if you’ve heard of the Delkin Black SD cards, or considered them?
I know they make high end Enterprise / Military grade type of SSDs..
I heard about them 2 years ago, when I was looking for some SD cards, but since I don’t pull them out that much, I purchased a 64MB San Disk..
I also think Kingston made a similar “more robust” type of card...
Delkin Black : www.delkindevices.com/delkin-black/
I had not heard of Delkin Black SD cards until you very kindly mentioned them, thank you. Interestingly, I cannot find them on Amazon, so folks who prefer to buy there would find an advantage in the Sony Tough cards. Also, the Delkin Black cards seem to only be available in more expensive V90 versions, unlike Sony Tough which offers very reasonably priced V60 versions (the M-Series that I purchased and reviewed). I also see the upper WRITE speed of the Delkin Black is capped at 250MB/s while the Sony Tough G-series upper limit is 299MB/s. Even so, the Sony G-series 128GB Tough card is $30 more than the Delkin. It does appear the Black cards came out in 2018, but despite that B&H shows only 4 reviews of the Black card versus 157 for the Sony Tough -- perhaps a different in name brand recognition. The B&H page for the Delkin Black is here: bhpho.to/39wm1Ae
I faced with an issue when Sony Tough card is write protected in my card-reader( but OK for Canon R6) which is obviously nonsense because it doesn't have this slider. What can be wrong with it?
Not sure about that unless the reader has a defect. I've been using my Sony Tough cards in my Panasonic GH5 camera, in the SONY Reader, and inserted directly into my iMacs and MacBook Pro computers without any issue over the past year and a half. However, I do have an HP Calculator that had SD card issues until I fixed the reader. That solution probably won't help you, but here's my video about that: ruclips.net/video/ETqQP_uxS44/видео.html
I'd like to point out that the slider on a SD card is passive and down to the reader or device
like the old 3.5 floppy disk or VHS and the tab or cassette tapes.
WHY PLUG THE READER IN JUST TO NOT USE IT, THUMBS DOWN HORRIBLE VID
It appears that you only skimmed my nightmarishly horrible video 🙄 and missed important content. You are mistaken about me not using the Sony Reader. Watch from 9:16 to see me testing the card in that reader! As such, switching your THUMBS DOWN to a Thumbs Up may be in order. But if not, that's okay too, because RUclips considers either kind of click "engagement" that benefits this channel. Same is true of comments. So thank you! 😀
By the way, the same Sony Reader works great in a USB-A to USB-C adapter on the most recent M1 Macs, and the speed is faster when using the reader than using the internal slot too. Apple dropped the ball even on their latest and greatest Macs by not using a fast reader. As is the case with some RUclips comments, it boggles the mind!