Price beat at your local Officeworks. The Samsung EVO Plus 256GB is also available at The Good Guys for $35
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No. For Samsung equivalent it would be the Pro Endurance
Samsung Pro Endurance is more for CCTV/Dashcams and is much slower than the Sandisk Extreme with write speeds of up to 40MB/s vs 80-90 MB/s of the Samsung PRO Plus/Samsung EVO Plus/Sandisk Extreme.
After being burnt by Samsung Customer service after 6 months ownership of a 256gb microsd, I'll NEVER buy Samsung again.
If you run into issues and they treat you like me, you will never get support, it's non existent and they simply don't care.
SanDisk for the win and I just hope I don't have problems with their products or customer service - so far so good.
For me it's the opposite experience, I've had many Sandisk cards fail, but no Samsung card failures yet. I would consider Samsung SD cards more reliable.
I'm with you, I've only ever had one card fail and it was a confirmed genuine Samsung. My concern is not related to reliability at all, it's all about the lack of customer support that Samsung have shown. Worst experience ever is the best thing I can say about them right now.
Curiously, why would you be dealing with Samsung directly as an Australian? You have consumer protections and rights through the retailer who are legally obligated to deal with this stuff for you.
Ultimately what matters is a resolution, whether in the form of repair or replacement that’s something best suited to being settled by the retailer you bought it from.
This should leave you buying the best product from the best retailer, not the second best product (or a smaller storage manufacturer/company in this case) or second option
I agree ultimately, Samsung direct are garbage and have been for a long time, whether that’s because they’re not used to dealing with individual customers, they don’t know AU laws, they are wilfully careless, OR they intentionally expect most people to deal with where the purchase from, it shouldn’t matter because YOUR best option is always to deal with the retailer.
Unless you purchased directly from them…? Then you have bigger problems on hand…
In general I find Samsung cards to be more reliable, I record my drive failures and that includes flash storage. I’ve had around 4 microsd cards stop working unexpectedly (all beyond 5 years old) and all of them have been sandisk, all of this is anecdotal but for reference I have bought and used more than 60 MicroSD cards (More than half of those are Samsung) over 10 years and none have died or had issues.
amazing small price difference for double size
Speed difference?
Depends on your use case I guess. I'm not noticing any real difference in benchmarks with a Sandisk UHS-II reader (~100MB/s read and 80-90 MB/s write speeds) and for photo/video use in a Sony full frame camera between my 512GB PRO Plus microsd cards and cheaper 256GB EVO Plus/Select variants.
The PRO Plus needs a proprietary Samsung card reader to achieve the advertised 120MB/s write speed.
EVO then.
does it work for mobile?
Yes. Provided your phone has a microsd slot ofcourse.
This good for dashcams?
No. Use an endurance card for dashcams.
Cool, thank you
Yeah never a good idea to use non endurance microsd cards on dashcams as the contant writes and rewrites will destroy these microsd cards.
256GB available again at $34
Updated, thank you
Is this the same quality as SanDisk extreme?