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MicroSD card torture test reveals SanDisk as outlier with high failure rate

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A three-year endurance test involving 351 microSD cards has revealed significant performance variations among brands. Tech enthusiast Matt Cole's extensive project, which subjected cards to extreme conditions and wrote 133 petabytes of data, found that consumer-grade cards from brands like PNY, Kingston, Delkin Devices, Lexar, and Samsung performed well. Notably, Amazon Basics cards have shown no failures to date, though they were not formally ranked due to their generic nature. SanDisk emerged as an outlier with a higher failure rate compared to other tested brands. AI

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MicroSD card torture test reveals SanDisk as outlier with high failure rate

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Jowi Morales ·

    MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested

    Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpected brands.

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