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Review on πŸš€ High Speed Silicon Power 64GB 3D NAND MicroSD Card with Adapter - Boost Your Storage! by Narendra Thapa

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Inexpensive "Legacy " MicroSD Memory Card Set

Bought 2 packs of Silicon Power 32GB "High Speed" MicroSD cards with adapters for a little less than $10. Basically I wanted to replace my old board that I've been using in my Raspberry Pi for a number of years with something "newer" but didn't want to spend a lot on it. I saw a set of two 32GB cards for less than $10 and thought it was the right price. I was a little apprehensive about the card as it was marked as 'old' and the packaging looked like it was the most modern design I've seen in stores, but those concerns turned out to be unfounded. I used to flash my Pi with the latest Raspian and the Pi3 worked fine. No crashes or complaints from the operating system on first boot. I haven't stopped processing data for the past few days and the card seems to be holding up well. As for saying "Read up to 85MB/s" in the package, I'm not sure what they were talking about. On the back, it says in small print that the speed is "based on a USB 3.0 UHS-1 card reader," but speeds may vary based on hardware. I put my card directly into my PC's Rosewill Multicard reader (Revain product number B007YDJJFS) which is connected to my PC via a USB 3 port and I've only seen 18MB/s using the AJA System Test app . Settings adjusted to reasonable level, 512MB 1080p HDV mock file. I tried a 256MB 720p 16bit dummy file and got similar results, 18MB/s. I'm not worried about the read/write speeds as the card isn't being used for anything too latency sensitive, but I found it worth mentioning. Overall, I'm happy with two 32GB cards for less than $10, which I think is a reasonable price for a decent set of cards.

Pros
  • Compatible with Nintendo Switch, giving you an affordable solution to expand your storage space.
Cons
  • I'll write later