Sandisk Ultra and Extreme lines of memory cards are two of the most common cards on the market. And although there are multiple differences, its read and write speed is what makes one better than the other. Depending on your device, the read/write rate majorly determines how a device performs.
Using a slower-performing memory card on a high-end device will worsen your experience due to lower read and write speed. Therefore, you need to know the difference between the two cards before you get a memory card.
But you cannot differentiate the specification of the two cards by just looking at them. Besides the word Ultra and Extreme on the front side, you will only see some differences in the writing.
This article aims to provide some knowledge about the two SanDisk memory card and some of their core differences.
SanDisk Ultra And SanDisk Extreme
Before we jump into the differences, let us first look at each of its characteristics, pros, and cons.
Both SanDisk Ultra and Extreme offer a great read and write speed. However, since Extreme provides a better read/write rate than Ultra, thesememory cardsare more suitable for devices that need faster speed, such as high-resolution cameras.
Now, let us further discuss the two types of SanDisk memory cards.
On the front-facing side of SanDisk Ultra, you may see several writings like SDXC, C10, and U1. Each writing has a dedicated meaning. SDXC determines the storage capacity, and C10 and U1 are measure of minimum read/write speed.
SanDisk offers minimum sequential writing speed of 10MB/s which is a great value. However, while recording video with resolution of 4K or higher, this write speed may not be enough. This may result in the recording device to lag.
Therefore, SanDisk is only suitable for devices that records video with resolution of 1080p or lower. Furthermore, Ultra uses bus type of UHS-I which has an overall transfer speed ranging from 50MB/s to 104MB/s.
The memory card also offers storage capacity up to 512GB, which is a lot more compared to SanDisk Ultra.
SanDisk Extreme is much more powerful compared to Ultra. Higher sequential read/write speed makes it more suitable for recording 4K videos. However, there are some similarities between the two cards as well.
Similar to SanDisk Ultra, SanDisk Extreme has identical characteristics. Both memory cards offer extended capacity. However, the maximum capacity for Extreme is only 256GB. Besides this, both memory cards have a bus type of UHS-1. Therefore, it offers transfer speed from 50MB/s to 104MB/s
SanDisk Extreme offers minimum sequential write speed of 30MB/s. Due to a higher write speed, SanDisk Extreme is a perfect choice especially if you use a device that needs faster data transfer rate.
