So I took it upon myself to answer the question of “what are the best and cheapest microSD cards out there?” This includes evaluating whether they’re fake flash, how well they perform, and how many read/write cycles they can endure before they start failing. So far I’ve tested four to the point of failure, I have 37 being tested right now, and I have 21 more waiting to be tested.
Sorry for the horrendous cable management — I have cable ties on order.
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If dashcams are any indication, they are mostly shit. Even the endurance cards don’t last as long as you’d expect.
Can you post your results when you find the best?
Raid 0 that mess just for fun lad.
Have fun. Where I see this beating out other options for low access / possibly cold storage is you could make it incredibly dense in terms of tb/kg and tb/cm3. It would make a fun challenge and be damn near impossible to maintain 🤣
I use h2testw, did you find any outright fakes (died first pass?)
That’s awesome. I can’t wait to see the results. That’s quite a collection of card readers, also. It will be interesting to see if they all survive, too.
Do you have any temperature controls for this experiment? Seems that all that gear is heating the sdcards under test. It would be interesting to see their performance under temperature extremes, or at least under typical ambient operating temperatures.