Review: SanDisk 16GB microSDHC Card

By Joseph Holder on 1 Mar 2011 12:00 pm

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Did you know that your BlackBerry is a voracious, memory-eating machine? Stills and videos taken with your BlackBerry camera, ringtones, music, email attachments, and even emails themselves take up memory. You need a memory card. To get the full use of the multimedia powers of your BlackBerry, you're going to need some space.

Once, I figured 8 gigabytes of storage would be enough. Then I started added entire albums, entire anthologies of work - twenty-six albums take up a bit of room. Digital backups of shows I own on DVD - every Simpsons DVD to date - take up their share of room, too. With 16 gigabytes of memory, I can store over 2,500 6-megabyte MP3's or more than 80 half-hour shows (about 175 MB each).

San Disk is a name I trust and with CrackBerry.com's reputation, I know the card is good. Twice, I've been burned by bad memory cards bought on ebay. Never again. The 16 GB strikes a nice balance of providing lots of space without breaking the bank. I know I'll certainly put it to good use.

Contest: Want to get one of these for free from ShopCrackBerry.com? Just leave a comment to this review letting us know what music or videos you'd put on a 16 GB memory card. Contest ends this Sunday at midnight PST. Please only leave a single comment. One lucky winner will get this shipped direct from ShopCrackBerry.com.

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1099 comments

Outbacker Mar 3, 2011 at 1:07 am

My four year old daughter hogs up lots of memory with all the video. A new card would be great!

jjtown Mar 3, 2011 at 1:10 am

hook ME UP PLEASE i PUT ALL my 4YR dAUGHTER FAVORITE SHOW ON FOR HER TO WATCH WHEN WE ARE OUT

adamnygaard1 Mar 3, 2011 at 1:15 am

i would load it up with hard rock and metal to keep me awake on the long trips i take

lazer53 Mar 3, 2011 at 1:56 am

id put some audiobooks. love history audiobooks!

manchanda Mar 3, 2011 at 2:20 am

Bob Marley and Beatles Black Box!

EeyoreFan75 Mar 3, 2011 at 2:24 am

I will put any type of music on my card. I love country, enjoy pop, tolerate rap and I even like to listen to old school tunes from generations going way back.

digizen Mar 3, 2011 at 2:41 am

I'd copy in a resized digital copy of disney movies.

minsun116 Mar 3, 2011 at 2:46 am

I would put every episode of 2 and.a half men

XWolf Mar 3, 2011 at 2:48 am

Music: mostly soundtracks from films and games, Beatles too.
Films: my daughter - she's 16 months old and I miss her when at work.

dannylill1981 Mar 3, 2011 at 3:49 am

foo fighters and family guy for me...................

gadi59 Mar 3, 2011 at 4:16 am

More music! my 8GB micro Card is full!

g000se Mar 3, 2011 at 4:25 am

loads of dubstep, drum & bass and some serious hard rock for when im riding my custom v-star

sinjo Mar 3, 2011 at 5:02 am

I'd like to win this!!

poolrookie78 Mar 3, 2011 at 5:03 am

This will be perfect to replace my 16gb ipod!

Ousus Mar 3, 2011 at 5:23 am

I would put on all the episodes of The Big Bang Theory or The IT guys and still have some space left!

marvelfredo Mar 3, 2011 at 5:30 am

I'd fill it with the movies I LOVE and also like 200 songs of different genre mixed up. Oh and like 1000 pictures of my life and around! :D Gimme that :P

dnottingham4 Mar 3, 2011 at 6:25 am

Raider's of the Lost Ark, Madagascar Penguins Short, Yes, Steely Dan, Led Zepplin, Robert Randolf, etc

wiltongorske Mar 3, 2011 at 7:31 am

Please pick me! :D

jinxygrrl#cb Mar 3, 2011 at 7:52 am

I could use a reliable memory card, pick me! Thanks.

dochill4u Mar 3, 2011 at 8:32 am

I would put my vast array of rock, rap, country, oldies, alternative, and my own songs on it. Would love to be able to tote my whole audio library with me! Great Contest!

jay_600rr Mar 3, 2011 at 8:33 am

I'd fill it full of hank III and family guy.

strambotic Mar 3, 2011 at 8:35 am

a little of everything Dexter,GG, Glee, some anime episodes Bleach, Naruto, music from Panic at the disco, the rassmuss usher rihanna and thing s like that

zorawar Mar 3, 2011 at 8:51 am

WOULD BE PERFECT FOR ALL MY MUSIC>>>>>>>>>>
me please, pick me!

cbdwolff7 Mar 3, 2011 at 9:46 am

"I would use to store all my RC Flying Videos taken at the Flying Field." No more running out of space.

preludeoflight Mar 3, 2011 at 10:19 am

Every episode of the current TV show I'm watching :D

trinishan Mar 3, 2011 at 11:24 am

I'd put some Soca music on mine.

insanezzy Mar 3, 2011 at 11:42 am

I would put all my favourite tv series in it namely gossip girl, pretty little liars & vampire diaries :D :D

Phartsy Mar 3, 2011 at 11:45 am

yes!

murialita Mar 3, 2011 at 11:46 am

My BlackBerry is my MP3 player. I hate that I can't put all my music on the card I have now. So all that would go on there along with any videos and pictures I take, as the BlackBerry is also my camera and camcorder.

chaoticblissx Mar 3, 2011 at 11:46 am

I would start with a portion of my mp3 collection, add in all the videos and pictures of my kids and finihs it off with a few movies to entertain them on the longer raods trips we tend to take in the summer!

iterumruditleo Mar 3, 2011 at 11:48 am

Would love to put on it Skunk Anansie discography and all of Duke Ellington, some cult movies (useful when out for job) and every doc I'd need on the go!

unclebone Mar 3, 2011 at 11:50 am

I didn't know I could watch movies on my Bold. I need this memory card to for vacation. My current 8 gig card is full of music.

obsessive_compulsive Mar 3, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Travel Music, work music, dance music, relaxation music, LOL, you name it, it's going on.

Justmyluck13 Mar 3, 2011 at 12:25 pm

Music would have to be whatever I'm listening to at the time.

But video, no question there. My collection of Get Smart episodes would have to be moved over to the card. Imagine how much better a spy Agent 86 would be if he and Agent 99 had blackberries!

jonesst07 Mar 3, 2011 at 12:33 pm

I want to save lots of youtube videos on it to help me with my math homework on the go lol. College math isn't a joke lol

DustBow Mar 3, 2011 at 12:49 pm

sa-weeet

DustBow Mar 3, 2011 at 12:49 pm

sa-weeet

jwmusicman Mar 3, 2011 at 1:18 pm

You can never have too much memory. I would put all my albums on there and add some videos I have been meaning to load too. Count me in!!

theshadow62 Mar 3, 2011 at 1:47 pm

i will store my vast collection of hard rock and heavy metal music. also movies to watch while i travel.

jjspigland Mar 3, 2011 at 1:51 pm

Music, photos and videos!

tomo333 Mar 3, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Photos of my family and AC/DC music!

niceday2 Mar 3, 2011 at 2:58 pm

I'm using an 8GB card at the moment, and it's completely full up. Mostly with music, so I'm having to rotate what I put on there.

My new Turisas CD just arrived so that would go on there straight away, as well as the entire Black Sabbath discography and loads of other (mostly) metal albums.

Perhaps I could see if I can get Star Wars (originals) to fit on it.

fotyc Mar 3, 2011 at 3:39 pm

Being kind of an old f**t, I'd put all my 70s rock on there, and also U2 which to me has the same spirit. Also a whole bunch of Irish and Quebec fiddle music.

JayRib Mar 3, 2011 at 5:38 pm

i would put a mixture of music for when I am working out , videos of my son and episodes of Family Guy so I can have something to watch when I am traveling.

gshms4 Mar 3, 2011 at 6:39 pm

I'd fill the card with lots of CLASSIC ROCK!!!!!!

stieroid Mar 3, 2011 at 9:04 pm

all the GirlTalk i got, and maybe Inception. I got a digital copy that's burning a whole in my movie case. left over room goes to my boys, rolling stones.

yea i'm all over, deal with it.

mjackson4986 Mar 3, 2011 at 9:59 pm

I have not just one genre of music I'd put on 16gb of space

snowfort Mar 4, 2011 at 12:39 am

I would put pictures of my wife and kids on it.

fyreball Mar 4, 2011 at 1:00 am

I'll squeeze as many simpson episodes as I can onto this memory card.

Good luck everyone!!!

japhule Mar 4, 2011 at 1:12 am

I like to save music videos I've downloaded off of youtube to play on my BB. They're formatted perfectly to play on BBs.

adudutz Mar 4, 2011 at 1:45 am

I'll put more musics from the 80's and 90's (Phil Collins, Aha, Switchfoot, Genesis, etc.) and of course more hilarious videos from YouTube (Axis of Awesome will be included) plus the videos with my buddies and family around Indonesia (yes, I live in there)

bgurpal Mar 4, 2011 at 4:29 am

Going to be an uncle again, so pics and vids of a new baby

Bjblondie58 Mar 4, 2011 at 4:42 am

I'd put pics, videos, & my eclectic mix of music on it! I could really use it as I only have a 2G @ this time

adragotoniu Mar 4, 2011 at 8:18 am

* some snowboardinf videos (it´s the session)
* new the office, entourage and south park ep.
* some punk rock for road tripping

cheers!!!

mangy Mar 4, 2011 at 8:26 am

Led Zeppelin

thewalmartguy Mar 4, 2011 at 8:46 am

Pics and Vids of my children (of course), lots of music (dream theater, killswitch engage, mudvayne, the human abstract, the agonist, avenged sevenfold, bullet for my valentine, slipknot, mushroomhead, shadows fall, sevendust, otep, hellyeah, and too many others). I also keep many personal, work, and legal documents and PDFs on my memory. This would be a nice addition to the phone.

paksolo Mar 4, 2011 at 9:28 am

I never thought I was gonne get a 4gb full but now I need the 16gb

philephool Mar 4, 2011 at 10:08 am

I completely feel the pain of only 8GB. With another 8, I'd cache a lot more Slacker Radio, load up a few more E-books for my long commute. (I'd listen to Atlas Shrugged (in the morning!) )

I'd also take a few new videos of my new puppy to make my co-workers jealous of the semi-load of space I now have!

dgburns Mar 4, 2011 at 10:29 am

I will load it up with video clips for my 3 year old boy.

jenniferrr Mar 4, 2011 at 10:46 am

Wow, 16GB! That's bigger than my mp3 player! I'd put all my music on there, give myself more background images (right now I'm on the BB default ones), and then save some room for more music and, of course, pictures and videos of anything exciting since I always have my Blackberry with me.

caley8011 Mar 4, 2011 at 11:56 am

I would store my favorite play lists which range from Conway Twitty to Alice in Chains and everything in between and I'd have room to take videos of my nephew playing baseball and testing for his black belts !! It would be so much easier to travel.

berd#cb Mar 4, 2011 at 11:59 am

Finaly, a place to put my entire Bee Gees anthology!

MrMarvelMarv Mar 4, 2011 at 12:02 pm

all my music and podcast!!!

Honey Bee 3 Mar 4, 2011 at 12:54 pm

I would use it to store more picks of my grandkids.

djghettoredneck Mar 4, 2011 at 1:32 pm

This would be great

ZeleiAdi Mar 4, 2011 at 1:49 pm

I would put all my Beatles on it!

golfboss Mar 4, 2011 at 1:51 pm

I'd move my entire list from my iPod and have everything I need in one place - My BB!!!
Thanks CB.

anthonybaker Mar 4, 2011 at 2:31 pm

i need this for my simpsons episodes! and futurama

brazilianlek Mar 4, 2011 at 6:04 pm

I'd put all my obscure but totally rad indie music on it. Everything from Sufjan Stevens to Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps. Please let me have it!

muggym Mar 4, 2011 at 7:25 pm

I would put all my episodes of glee on it so that I can watch them on my 15 hour flights to and from Australia!

brodcaster Mar 4, 2011 at 7:45 pm

Dave Matthews Videos and Music
U2

Video Airchecks of my Radio Gods Bruce Vidal, Big Ron O'Brien, Tim Kelly.

Clips of WKRP with Johnny Fever :)

Dan o'Day Youtube videos/clips

The Boat that Rocked
The Lord of the Rings
Something's Gotta Give
Don Juan De Marco
Breakfast Club

EBooks!
The Purpose Driven Life
The Alchemist
Tuesdays with Morrie
Band of Brothers
Black Hawk Down

BlackBerry Commercials Old and New

Some classic videos of Disco hits from 70's.

The good ones from the 80's

Lots more videos from the time when there was a lot of music from MTV

My loads of mp3 downloads :)

Gamesdmc3 Mar 4, 2011 at 11:49 pm

crackberry is legendary

scotsman88 Mar 5, 2011 at 8:51 am

I would use this to store all my daughters barbies movies...she's on the crackbarbie!

jaime207 Mar 5, 2011 at 9:54 am

16gb? really? thats insane!! i can haz it?

JAYKIDD Mar 5, 2011 at 10:56 am

Please!

SDWolf Mar 5, 2011 at 2:37 pm

I would add more music and a couple of movies. Pick me

newbenin Mar 5, 2011 at 3:26 pm

most of my episodes of sopranos will fit this as, i always record and watch later when on the go.

kuduRocks Mar 5, 2011 at 4:22 pm

yeahh...more high-quality images and videos for me at last...gonna download till it blows!!

elavum Mar 5, 2011 at 4:51 pm

I can now store my little ones movies to blackberry. Oh how it could save me as I am on the road with him

chadrow6549 Mar 5, 2011 at 6:56 pm

id put videos on my 19 month old son walking and running around getting into everything! lol:)

velocityrob Mar 5, 2011 at 8:17 pm

16gigs would ROCK- I could put my entrire MP3 collection on one card.

valavank Mar 5, 2011 at 11:28 pm

I WOULD LOVE THIS!!!!

yaguang Mar 6, 2011 at 12:10 am

I would put every movie directed by Steven Spielberg. That guy is a genuine genius.

mark-h Mar 6, 2011 at 3:02 am

It would be music for me. Whatever took my fancy at the time

bibeberry Mar 6, 2011 at 9:00 am

thank you for this

somainer Mar 6, 2011 at 9:35 am

Family pictures, more podcasts, jazz music - and of course, episodes of Sports Science for the kids! More memory, please!

DooDeeDoo Mar 6, 2011 at 10:42 am

I love to put all my World Rally Championship action on my Torch to watch while commuting on the train.

fibi59 Mar 6, 2011 at 1:42 pm

I love birthday week

trentoncampbell Mar 6, 2011 at 2:03 pm

This would be great for my audio bools

olisassy Mar 6, 2011 at 6:08 pm

I would store all my pics and music, I keep running out of room

il309 Mar 6, 2011 at 11:44 pm

Duh, the CrackBerry.com podcasts!

dingleberrysandcrapcakes Mar 7, 2011 at 1:30 pm

an i too late

svjones Mar 8, 2011 at 12:48 am

I work at a music store so I have a nice collection of Music I can put on a 16GB card. Hundreds of albums to choose from so the possibilities are endless and would take up a lot of space and time on this comment.

I'll go with Genres instead. Metal, Punk, Hard Rock. A lot of new age stuff but can't forget the classics!

yeedub Mar 9, 2011 at 2:14 am

Load up on kungfu movies

hsharief Mar 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm

I'd dedicate it for my pictures.

jarretj Mar 15, 2011 at 7:47 pm

Of course I would put Music and Ringtones but one new thing i would do is I would use my Blackberry take more crazy videos of my family and friends with that kind of space. I think that would be the greatest use is for memories.

Virtual Treader Mar 16, 2011 at 3:59 am

It will definitely help to load more apps & cut out all speed issues currently being experienced!!! What will it price at should one have to purchase it?

DAEBJ Apr 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm

tO STORE FAMILY PHOTOS ALSO CHRISTIAN MUSIC TKS

njfirebuff Nov 5, 2011 at 12:56 pm

I use my bb for a lot of fire and ems photos so an expanded card would be great to free up space !

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