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Amazon has infiltrated the tablets market globally through its Kindle Fire tablets that are a low-price line of tablet PCs that everyone can buy. One of the most significant areas where Amazon has been able to cut the prices of the Kindle Fire tablets is the storage. However, with tablet PCs coming with an internal storage of as little as 8 GB, you are bound to use that Micro SD card slot that is featured in almost every generation of the Kindle Fire.

Kindle Fire supports expandable storage of up to 256GB and any Class 10 or UHS (Ultra High Speed) micro SD card will do the job. This pretty much means that storage is not an issue for you if you are willing to spend some money to expand it based on your need. What most reviews won't tell you is that the Kindle Fire also features a great storage managing system that delegates a lot of control to the users for managing the storage on the micro SD card.

On any other Android device, the applications are stored in the internal storage while the external storage can only be used to store data. Kindle Fire's best feature in this area is that it has no bounds on what goes where. You can store apps in the internal storage as well as the external storage, and vice versa. While any other device will let you move your data between the internal and the external storage, Kindle Fire goes to the next step and even lets you move applications from the internal storage to the external storage and vice versa.

In this article, we will discuss how you can access the memory card on a Kindle Fire HD 8 tablet (8^th generation). Keep in mind that even though the HD 7 and the HD 8 tablets have a somewhat different method of accessing the memory card, the steps are more or less the same. The next most important thing to note is that the micro SD card you wish to use in your Kindle Fire tablet must be formatted with either the FAT32 or the exFAT filing system. You can easily do that by inserting the memory card in a computer and quick-formatting it from there before inserting it to your tablet.

Using MicroSD card on Kindle Fire

The easiest way to get started is to format your memory card, but music, videos and/or photos in the memory card using another computer and inserting the memory card to your Kindle Fire. The tablet will automatically read all the media files present in your micro SD card and load them up in their respective applications like Music and Videos that are present on the desktop screen of the tablet.

Music

Keep in mind that your Music app will show you all the music present on your Amazon Prime library (online cloud) and all the music you have stored offline in the internal storage and the memory card. Follow these steps to only see the locally stored collection:

Open "Music"
Tap on "My Music"
Tap the "Settings" icon
Tap on the toggle labeled "Offline Music Mode"

If you had already downloaded some music on your Kindle Fire's internal storage, you can easily transfer it to your memory card by following these steps:

Tap on "My Music"
Tap on the "Settings" icon
Tap on the option labeled "Transfer all offline music"
A new window will popup, this window will let you choose if you want to transfer all the music to the memory card or the internal storage

Videos

Accessing videos is a lot easier than locally stored music. All you have to do is open the Videos tab, select the Library tab, tap on the Settings icon, and select Personal Videos option.

You can also access videos on your memory card by using a third-party file manager application like Fire Commander or Total Commander, both of which are present in the Amazon App Store.

Choosing Which Data should be downloaded to the SD Card

Kindle Fire allows you to choose which types of media files should be download to the internal storage and which of them need to go to the SD card. After inserting the memory card, follow these steps to set your preference:

Open "Fire OS Settings" Menu
Select "Storage" option
Scroll down to the SD card section. There is a list of toggles present
1. Download Movies and TV Shows to Your SD Card
2. Download Music to Your SD Card
3. Store Personal Photos and Personal Videos on You SD Card
4. Download Audiobooks to your SD Card
5. Download Books and Periodicals to Your SD Card
Set your preference and close the Settings app.

Conclusion

Kindle Fire has a very user-friendly system to access and control the expandable storage and you can perform a lot of operations very easily. We highly recommend Kindle Fire owners to expand their storage using a micro SD card.