So I took it upon myself to answer the question of “what are the best and cheapest microSD cards out there?” This includes evaluating whether they’re fake flash, how well they perform, and how many read/write cycles they can endure before they start failing. So far I’ve tested four to the point of failure, I have 37 being tested right now, and I have 21 more waiting to be tested.
Sorry for the horrendous cable management — I have cable ties on order.
I would put a fan on those card readers though to remove them as a point of failure👀… I’ve needed to backup 7 micro sd cards at a time for some shoots using a USB hub and damm do the readers get hot when copying a ton of stuff