Best Memory Cards for Amazon Fire Tablet

The Amazon Fire Tablet is a great investment, but it can run out of storage space pretty fast. That means it's time for a microSD card. Here are some you should definitely check out. Whether you have a Fire Tablet for yourself or your kids, you've probably noticed that the internal storage doesn't go very far. You can easily fill it up with some games, a few apps, and media, which is a bit disappointing. Instead of trying to figure out what to delete, and how to better manage the storage, why not make things easier and add a microSD card so it can hold more? There are tons of great microSD cards out there, and not all of them are expensive. Depending on your needs, you can get cards with as little as 8GB or as much as 400GB. Spend whatever you're comfortable spending. Figure a 32GB card will be the bare minimum you'll want, and frankly getting anything less is just a waste of a shipping fee. But if I were you, I'd get whatever's on sale in the highest capacity you can afford. (Because this is the sort of thing you can use anywhere, not just in an Amazon tablet.) Whether you are waiting for your brand new Amazon Fire tablet to arrive, or are using the previous generation, here are some great options you will want to consider. SanDisk 64GB microSD Samsung 32GB microSD Silicon Power 64GB microSD PNY Elite 128GB microSD SanDisk 200GB microSD SanDisk Ultra 400GB microSD SanDisk 64GB microSD SanDisk is a well-known brand when it comes to portable storage, and its cards are almost always highly recommended. The company offers a bunch of different cards in different storage capacities, and this one is specifically made for the Fire Tablets and Fire TV. For most of what you will do with your Fire Tablet, the microSDXC UHS-I will be fast enough to meet your needs. It may take a few seconds longer for the initial transfer of information to the card, but after that, you won't notice much of a difference. With 64GB of extra storage, you'll easily be able to install a ton of new apps, save music and movies locally to access whenever you want, and much more. Priced at around $22, it's hard to find a much better value than this microSD card. See at Amazon{.end} Samsung 32GB microSD Samsung has been making storage products for quite some time and has been offering extremely affordable microSD cards as well. You won't find the smaller sizes, like 8GB or 16GB from Samsung, but from 32GB all the way up to 256GB, you'll find great deals. This high-performance card offers transfer speeds of up to 80MB/s, and they're built to last. These cards are water-, temperature-, magnetic-, and even X-ray-proof. All of these good things must mean that it is on the pricey side, right? Wrong. A 32GB card will only set you back around $14, which is less than many people pay to go see a movie. See at Amazon{.end} Silicon Power 64GB microSD Silicon Power's 64GB microSD offers speeds you'd expect out of a memory card for this price, with nothing crazy that makes it stand out. It can work in a variety of devices and comes with a lifetime warranty, so you shouldn't have to worry much about it. Another great feature of the cards is the included SD adapter which allows you to put the microSD card in your computer, camera or anything else that takes a full-sized SD card. Coming in at around $17, you can't go wrong with adding one of these to prevent the inevitable running out of storage. See at Amazon{.end} PNY Elite 128GB microSD If you are looking for more storage, PNY may make the card for you. The company makes a variety of different sizes at different price points, and the 128GB sits at a pretty sweet spot. It may be more than you need initially, but having extra space is never really a bad thing. With it you can load tons of movies, endless amounts of apps and pictures, and have to worry very little about filling it up. Of course, the more storage you get the more it will cost. PNY is quite reasonable with pricing, having this card listed at around $45 right now. See at Amazon{.end} SanDisk Ultra 200GB microSD 200GB is the largest capacity that the Fire Tablet is meant to use, and you may just want to purchase a microSD of that size to put in and forget that it is there. Sure, 200GB is a lot of space to have, but do you want to have to worry about storage ever again? A few years ago it would have cost a fortune to put that much storage inside your tablet, but now it is totally affordable. You can usually find a pretty good deal on this card, making it run anywhere from $55 to $60, which is a great price for how much it can hold. If you don't want to worry about what you have on the tablet or deleting one thing to install another, you'll want to get one of these right now! See at Amazon{.end} SanDisk Ultra 400GB Sure, 200GB is cool. But you know what's really cool? Twice that much storage. Nearly half a terabyte of storage. So much storage that your storage has storage. Because, yo dawg. Seriously, this is a ridiculous amount of removable storage. It's a Class 10 card, with transfer speeds up to 100MB a second. And that's good, because there are a LOT of MBs on this thing. It's also not inexpensive, at upwards of $185. See at Amazon{.end} Your favorite? Do you have a favorite microSD card that isn't listed here? If so, be sure to drop a link and brief description of why you like that one so others can check it out as well! Updated, July 2018: Updated pricing. These are still the best microSD cards for your Fire tablet!