Details From the link :
Sandisk High Endurance microSDXC Card, SQQNR 128G, UHS-I, C10, U3, V30, 100MB/s R, 40MB/s W, SD adaptor, 2Y, White (SDSQQNR-128G-G)
Perfect for Your Dash Cam or Home Monitoring System
High Endurance Lets You Record and Re-record
Handles Harsh Conditions
Record in Full HD or 4K
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What Viofo do you use and what card were you using previously? I am trying to work out which model to go with
A129 Duo. It currently has 64GB Samsung Pro Endurance which I will move to another car.
Cool thank you!
@Buyer0fBargains: For the main car which travels quite a bit and gets parked in multiple places a day, I installed the A229 Plus Duo. It is the cheapest model with the Starvis 2 sensor. I installed a 512GB Sandisk Extreme Pro and enabled parking mode using the HK4 hardwire kit. Not really a dashcam memory card but it was cheap. Hoping to get a few years out of it.
Just bought the VIOFO A329 and using the 256gb max endurance without issue so far. I wanted to go 512gb high endurance but didn't want to risk it.
Yes, I have been running the same 256GB Max Endurance card in my VIOFO A229 Plus for a year.
Can JB Hi-Fi match the price? Can they price match any or all Amazon products?
No
JB Hi-Fi doesn’t price match all Amazon products. What about The Good Guys and Officeworks?
they can pricematch but only if the item is sold and shipped by Amazon Au.
but this item is sold by Sunwood-Au so it's a no go for JB & Officeworks.
High endurance is recording for up to 20k hrs. Max endurance is 120k hrs. Samsung pro endurance is 140k hrs. Might be more worth it for Max endurance or samsung if they last longer.
Say recording one hour to and one hour back, two hours a day, on occasional days four hours, rounding to 3 hours a day, I think it would take 20 years to kill a 20k hour? Unless my math is wrong.
In theory, but probably not in real world.
The Samsung endurance microSD (can’t remember exactly which one) lasted about 3 years in my Garmin Mini. Started having corrupted data, then the Garmin app was telling the performance of the card is degraded (and to try formatting to lengthen the life). Formatting worked a couple of times, but it was basically dead a month later (and still corrupting data).
I’ll just be going the cheaper cards like the one in this post now and replacing them every few years as they die.
I’ll be waiting for an offical Amazon-AU stock though. Most third party sellers are likely to be counterfeit IMO. (Your risk tolerance maybe higher than mine)
Is it possible to determine whether it’s counterfeit upon receipt? If so, can’t you just return it? If not, how do they differ from the genuine article? I wonder whether they would get ‘Amazon Choice’ status if they were a counterfeit seller.
I’m genuinely curious btw, not criticising.
@alcadive: See below for a fairly good looking counterfeit I bought from eBay. Not the exact same product but gives you an idea.
These guys probably sell 10x the volume Amazon do, yet they've never had a bad word said. Random failures happen. Max Endurance has fancy stats but 3yr warranty. Alll sellers are 3rd party sellers. By definition manufacturers aren't retailers.
As for your formatting attempt. Right click format in Windows? AKA rewriting the partition table = Doing nothing. Next time use manufacturers tools
Max endurance 128gb is $33 ish atm in amazon.
Yeah prefer to spend a bit more on the Max Endurance range.
Bought thanks
Good luck with this being genuine. The counterfeits look very good these days to the untrained eye. They'll counterfeits, not fakes. So they'll work but they're not geuine Sandisk and reliablity will be questionable.
As an example of a pretty good counterfeit from ebay sold as "genuine" in the title. I returned it unopened and got my money back. I was the only one to give a bad review and they pestered me multiple times to change my review. I also reported as counterfeit to ebay with the proof and they blew it off and said it was fine.
Looks alright but:
Hanger tab punch should be removed on genuine (apparently, but I wouldn't use this as a sole reason.
A bit hard to see but there's no embossing on the back in the Sandisk logo in the top left.
No space between "UHS-I" and "Card" - yes a minor typo but wouldn't happen on a real product
The "speed up to" icon on the front wasn't correct from some website I found.
The big ones though are:
The barcode number is not valid - it fails the checksum
The actual barcode does not match the number
The actual barcode is for the 32GB version of the same card
So 100% counterfeit. Seller tried to claim that the barcode doesn't prove it's a coutnerfeit. Well it doesn't prove it's authentic if it's right but if it's wrong then yeah no chance it's genuine.
Thanks so much for that detailed description!
No idea why anyone would have down-voted your comments. I've evened it out.
My order arrived for the 256GB High Endurance. At the back is a label with a barcode stuck over the original barcode.
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/59521/119401/pxl_20250…
I peeled off the label and used a barcode scanner to scan it. The number matches the barcode. Below is the screenshot from the barcode scanner app.
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/59521/119392/screensho…
Googling the number (619659173227) yields listings for the Sandisk 256GB High Endurance cards.
There are no typos and the packaging looks good.
I'm not an expert so would like to know what else to look for.
That's because they sell the genuine products
You're looking for errors rather than it being correct. If the barcode is correct it doesn't prove it's genuine as I said.
But if you find simple mistakes on the packaging that's when you have consider it's not the real deal.
You're looking for errors rather than it being correct.
I'd love to hear what why and how this is at all relevant to the outcome.
@Shonky: Want to know what to look for in a legitimate reseller?
7yrs of OzBargain history of flash sales on Amazon. Or maybe Amazon's own feedback system of 100% 5-star feedback in the last 12mths and 4.9/5.0 lifetime stat's?
But no, of course that tells us nothing about YOUR card, so it must be a fake!
I'm most curious to know what the packaging tells you about it's contents? If I wanted to look for my own determination, not the thousands before me, if consider evaluating the product, not its packaging. Never seen an erroneously packaged product before? Or one from tens of millions of produced sports cards who's alignment or pigment is not correct?
With flash at this point in its life cycle probably costs more to design print and package the product than produce it, all for cents on the dollar profits - I'd package into the 10,000 incorrect labels that have been printed than ditch them and go again.
Which brings me to the point that you're hyper evaluating a $20 product. Get over it or get on with it
Better to pay the extra $4 for the ships and sold by Amazon option.
This is why i’d rather buy microSDs from brick&mortar stores as there’ll be way less risk (if any at all) for counterfeit/fakes and easier returns.
Plus, with JB, if low enough and you got a spare $10 voucher, makes it even more sweeter deal, maybe close to free even.
They've been selling these for months, possibly years without a single complsint. Stop splashing you and your personal opinion everywhere. You made the mistake of buying flash off ebay… Cheapest available noo doubt? Name the seller to save others? Its a nice story though
Are your feelings hurt? I just posted a real life example of a counterfeit sold as genuine. No opinion necessary as the photos clearly show a counterfeit product.
Is it genuine or FAKE?
I just run a test on the one I got on this deal and the result is below:
Warning: Only 121909 of 121910 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 70.9 MByte/s
Reading speed: 71.7 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
It seems to have decent r/w speeds, it does get quite hot during the test.
It seems fine to me, will see how it goes long term.
Are these still available? I get redirected every time :(
I’ve ordered the 256GB I hope it’s not a fake one.
Did you find out if it was fake?
Isn't there a SanDisk store on amazon? is that legit?
These are perfectly fine. Sandisk are a manufacturer, not a retailer, so no SanDisk store
This is where I buy my Sandisk from. Is it not legit?
https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/SanDisk/page/44178E25-E2B4-…
Certainly seems like it is. I was making a general assumption, which appears to have been wrong. If that wasn't SanDisk owned and operated, there would be a hefty Intellectual Property lawsuit with all that branding.
I bought the 256gb version for $34.99 as that's the max my Viofo can take. Better value per gb and hopefully lasts longer. Also extra capacity to potentially implement parking mode.