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Best Memory Cards for Sony A6300

The Sony A6300 has 1 x SD memory card slot that supports UHS-I speed. You’ll want a fast memory card if you often record 4K videos or shoot at 11 frames per second, otherwise you’ll wait too long for the buffer to clear. Your videos could also pause randomly if the writing speed is too slow.

Our favorite memory card is the SanDisk Extreme PRO 64GB. It’s super fast (95MB/s) and affordable, plus SanDisk is the most reliable memory card company out there.

After looking through many memory cards available, these are the top 3 (best price/speed ratio).

Best memory cards for Sony A6300

SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB

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Our top pick: Your best choice is the SanDisk PRO 64GB (95MB/s). It’s cheap, fast enough for 4K and 11fps burst shooting.

The Sony A6300 has a pretty small maximum writing speed (under 40MB/s) and this Sandisk card could easily do more if the camera wasn’t ‘limited’.

You can buy it at Amazon or see more reviews here.

Lexar Professional 1000x

lexar-professional-64gb-1000x-u3If you transfer hundreds or thousands of images almost weekly and need the fastest transferring speeds, get the Lexar Professional 1000x 64GB as it goes up to 150MB/s. It’s UHS-II which is better than UHS-I, but the Sony will be limited to UHS-I speeds. However, for transferring files to your computer, this memory card will do the job much faster but you’ll also need to get an USB 3.0 memory card reader.

You can buy it at Amazon or see more reviews here.

Transcend U3 64GB

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Same size, same speed, but $10 cheaper; the Transcend 64GB 95MB/s. Transcend is another really popular memory card brand, and while they haven’t been making cards for as long as SanDisk, their quality is excellent and their products are great for both amateur and professional cameras.

You can buy it at Amazon or see more reviews here.

Stick to Lexar, SanDisk, Transcend and Sony cards and you’ll be fine. Don’t ever buy a cheap, random card as you’ll probably lose your photographs soon.

Don’t buy memory cards from unknown brands or something that looks too good to be true. More often than not, those cards will fail right when you’ll need them the most.

A memory card is where all of your work is stored until you transfer that on the computer.

Make sure to get a card from any of the following brands: SanDisk, Lexar, Transcend and Kingston. There are a few good out there, but the 5 we mentioned are more than enough.

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