The camels told me this is cheap. Looks like a lightning deal with 0% claimed
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Shit, bought 128gb for 50 bucks last week from JB
Handover your ozbargain account.
Serves me right. I'm not fussed.
who buys 128gb for $50 in 2023 !!!!!
And also doesn't deem this a good deal
Me.
Doesn't matter, got the latest Viofo and Vantrue dashcams for free so whatevs
Oldies, richies, and people who are anti everything good
The 512MB Evo Plus (the model below this) was only $40 from TGG last week!
Not gonna get far with 512MB in this day and age
hahah! Doh. Yeah, caught me. 512GB :)
JBs the new Harvey Norman.
What's the difference between Pro plus and EVO plus? I don't think there is much difference in the 512gb versions is there? Good Guys had the EVO Plus for $49 last week so I grabbed one.
Faster read and write speeds on the Pro plus.
Read: 180 (Pro), 130 (Evo)
Write: 130 (Pro), Not advertised (Evo)
I've got a 2021 256GB White EVO Plus microSD and it can write at up to 130 as well. The PRO will probably achieve that speed more consistently though.
Note that the UHS-I limit is 104MB/s so you'll be fine if you are using it with the bundled or a supported card reader on your PC but if you are using it on a phone, camera, Nintendo switch, Steam Deck etc. chances are you will be capped at 104MB/s. Even if the device (e.g. camera) or card reader supports UHS-II it doesn't mean it supports the proprietary speed protocols on these cards e.g. SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS II Reader SDDR-409-G46 caps at UHS-I speeds when reading the Sandisk Extreme PRO or Samsung EVO/PRO Plus microSD cards and Sony cameras with UHS-II card slots won't reach the advertised speeds either.
Yeah it actually will cos it's using DDR which is in between UHS-I and UHS-II.
Note that of course you with reach the max advertised reads and writes unless you use the Samsung readers.
cos it's using DDR which is in between UHS-I and UHS-II.
I think you're thinking of DDR208, not DDR. DDR was introduced in SD Card specification 3.01, the same specification that introduced UHS-I. All UHS-I SD cards are capable of DDR.
Quote:
Double data rate operation at 50 MHz (DDR50) is also specified in Version 3.01, and is mandatory for microSDHC and microSDXC cards labeled as UHS-I.
The Pro is a noticeable bit faster at transferring lots of data onto and off of it. If, on the other hand, if you are planning on using it as app storage on something like a phone or a Switch then the EVO is fine since the write speed will not be relevant often.
Yeah, it was for a switch.
For sure then, the EVO cards are faster than the official Nintendo Switch SD card, and the Switch can't read faster than 100MB/s anyway
i think it was $39 not $49, for that price it was good, missed out.
If you don't own their proprietary reader then both cards perform nearly the same from my testing (read and write both around 80MB/s).
Would this be good for cameras?
Samsung thinks all their SD cards are fine for cameras, but they also think their full sized SD adapter will fail after a year of continuous use and therefore recommend against using their microSD cards in devices that that take full sized cards.
Lots of people do it anyway, and you can carry a spare adapter.
they also think their full sized SD adapter will fail after a year of continuous use
That's an interesting claim, as there are no electronics in an SD adaptor. For connection to the micro-SD it's just a row of contacts, and the full-size SD connector is just pads on a PCB. There's a photo on this page: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ixc9cx/t…
So if it's going to fail, that would have to be due to the contacts (either set) failing due to corrosion, and if that's the case, it makes no difference whether it's in continuous use or powered off.
I call BS on Samsung's claim. I've had the same SD card adaptor in my Pentax K-M camera since I bought it in 2010, and it's still working fine.
And yet, all the product pages for their microSD cards have small text in a few places saying that the adapter isn't guaranteed to work longer than a year. (literally it's not warrantied to work)
Do they often fail? Probably not.
Also Sony, Canon, and other manufacturers also broadly advise against using microSD cards with adapters for their cameras, so it's not just a spurious claim by Samsung. (on FAQ pages: "you may use a microSD card and adapter if it's within specs, but we don't guarantee it will work")
Camera forums talking about SD cards always say to avoid using microSD cards with adapters for anything important, with lots of anecdotes of the adapter eventually causing a failure in some way. "it adds another point of failure to your camera system", they say
Does any of this make sense considering that the adapter is literally just shaped metal in some plastic? Not at all.
I completely agree with you, I've never had an adapter fail on me
For digicams for photography, yes it would be great for that.
For dashcams and security cams, you're much better off getting a card which is designed for that purpose (sustained writes), such as the Samsung PRO Endurance series. These types of cards are slower but will last a lot longer without failing in sustained-write scenarios.
Awesome thanks. Buying one for my fujifilm and maybe one for pocket 3
How do you like the pocket 3? Any issues with it?
@Digitalsin: sorry about to buy haha..been watching a lot of stuff on YouTube, both sponsored vs. non-sponsored, I think it's a buy!
This. Also Samsung and SanDisk expressly won't cover your use of this card if you use it in a dashcam but the Endurance line they wills
From what I've seen the PRO Plus behaves about the same as the cheaper EVO in camera so you're paying extra money for no appreciable performance difference in camera. You will be able to potentially be able to offload photos from the card to the PC slightly faster assuming you are using a supported card reader though.
Not a big difference in current pricing so wouldn't really worry about it if you were going to buy something now but if you were going to keep an eye out for sales the EVO was selling for ~$40 recently.
Oh ok thx for the heads up!
For hi res video, like 200mbps, the difference in write speed could potentially make a difference, both are V30 rated though and you would be looking at much more expensive V60 cards for proper high bitrate video.
Is this good for CCTV sd card endurance wise?
Samsung makes "Pro Endurance" cards for CCTV use. The 10 year warranty on the Pro Plus here explicitly says it doesn't apply if you use it in a CCTV. The Pro Endurance cards have a 5 year warranty but claim the cards have the endurance to last 16 years at 1080p.
thanks
The warranty specifically excludes use in cctv, dashcams and any continuous write scenario.
So Samsung aren't confident in it surviving at the least. (That said, the card would have to be working enough for them to check the cumulative writes when you send it back…)
my cctv only writes on motion so probably wouldn't be as nearly as bad as a continuous write of a dash cam
Be careful with that assumption. Many CCTV/dashcam scenarios have the recording happening continuously, it is just what it decides to keep, going forward. This is especially true for say car impact sensors triggering a recording, it will include 5 seconds (or more) of the footage leading up to the incident. The only way it can do that is if it is continuously writing to a buffer. Usually that is discarded and overwritten if there is no incident, but it is flushed out and saved as the start of the file, followed by your incident recording. Self-contained CCTV cameras may or may not behave the same way, you wouldn't expect it from a cheaper system.
@endotherm: ok thanks, my system is a unifi protect dream router, it does have an SSD so I don't know if maybe they were smart about it and do the majority of writes to that and only write backups to the sd card.
@Budju: Unifi Protect cameras seem to have this capability (from their website), it depends if it is turned on or not in the configuration:
Advanced Configuration
For even more granular control, you can modify the following Motion Detection sliders for individual cameras. These controls are found in your Protect application > Devices > select a camera > Recording Mode > Detection Record Settings:Seconds of motion needed to trigger detection.
Seconds to record before motion detection.
Seconds to record after motion detection.
If there is an SD card in the camera, it will be using this for the buffer, and continuously writing.
@Budju: From what I stumbled across on Reddit, they seem to think the SD card in the router is still used to record the Protect function features.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/qm7cyw/dream_rout…
It all depends on whether you set it up to record footage before motion detection.
Two writes don't make a wrong.
Looks like a lightning deal with 0% claimed
After over 1000 clicks, still says 0% claimed. Odd
@rosebank - Nice find. I also had it in my Camelsx3 alerts. Snapped one up for redundancy backup.
They are great for playback of large 4K videos and movies. I bought one of the same units 12 months ago for a then ridiculously low price of A$132.30. It has been rock-solid reliable with no issues whatsoever.
Don't buy this for a VIOFO dashcam. Had one, lasted a few weeks then it was dead. Got a refund though.
will this work in steam deck?
Did anyone else notice the Pro Ultimate for $99 (shipped etc).
($77 AUD + shipping)
200mb/sec… Not sure its worth it?!?!?
Thoughts?
So tempting