Update 2024-11-29: The Bliksem Football (0:39 C4R4) lost its partition table while transfering. Might still work, but I don't trust it. Update: The Extrem PRO (0:39 C1R1) is no longer working. Broken completely.
I think Lexar are the best cuz i saw a lot of those mobile handled console that emulating like nes and gba using them, mean they are good, also they have an official store on AliExpress so there are legit. I have 64 gb Lexar for 1 year working great.
Yeah me as well. But it also makes sense since most of those fake 2TB Micro SDs are often enough 32GB, so it probably wouldn't be cheaper to lie about a 32GB card.
@@dyXurChannel Have you Tested 256GB Cards from Same manufactor are they thrue Capacity ? i ordered a 256gb from Temu No name they are Fake only 16GB .
Some time ago I bought two SD cards from AliExpress. One is a Sandisk, the other is a Microdrive, both 64 gigabytes. Capacity and speeds were as described and worked well from the start. I used them on phones to store photos. But after a month or two my photos started breaking. Some could not be read, others disappeared for no reason. The tests showed that the cards were fine (didn't give any errors), but after a while they lost data. Both cards have the same problem on two different phones. Now I have cards purchased from my country and no problems :)
I was surprised in general, that none of the working ones were much slower than the baseline. Hell, some like the Lexar were straight up more than double the speed.
Wow I've seen Lexar in alot of stuff like clone console from Aliexpress but did not know that it would be actually decently fast If I ever get a flash cart I'll think of getting lexar
I needed a new 64GB micro sd card and here in the Netherlands they are around € 10 - 15 a piece in the shop and I wondered if the AliExpress ones are any good. That's how I found this video. I used the same strategy as you: free shipping for at least 3 items, they were all € 2,53 each so I bought 4 ones of 64GB and different brands like the Lexar, Halloween and Christmas. It would be nice to get 4 for the price of one. Transfer speed is not that important to me but as long as they have the right capacity I am happy. But I will let you know the results when they arrive and I have the opportunity to test them. Great video, thanks. Liked and subscribed!
@@filippocara0510 For just storage they work great: 3 pieces of 64GB card including shipping for around € 5.50 (about US$6) but they come nowhere near the advertised read and write speed. Some perform slightly better than others, but for me they work great: I only need them for storage anyway. The same goes for USB drives, I bought several of them and the all have the right capacity but not the read-write speed. It seems the pictures are printed on later so the brands and images don't really indicated anything imo. P.S. Of course 2TB drives are not that cheap, if you buy SD cards or USB drives up to 128GB it's probably going to have the right capacity but read and write slower. GL!
I use a tool called F3 (Fight Flash Fraud) that writes data onto the SD and then checks their hash. From that I get the actual amount. F3 also gives me the speeds, but I follow this usually up with KDiskMark
most 32-64 are usually true capacity but above that like 128gb are risky and I highly doubt there is a 1tb one that is legit. I have a dragon 128gb Mico Sd for my switch and it does the job pretty well. You can't trust a review unless it's tested with H2testw or a similar program, the first Sd I bought was a 32 disguised as 128 :/
Yeah so far 32-64 GB have gave good results. But yeah, when you get into the 3-digits it is risky. There are 1TB ones, but not on AliExpress and they cost 100$ to 200$ and certainly not 2$ like some ads that are out there. F3 (which is used in the video) is like H2test, but for Linux, Mac & Win.
Every one I've ever purchased all different sizes and brands approx 10, not one worked without crashing and losing all data. DON'T BUY FROM ANY SELLER BOASTING CHEAP PRICES.
Yeah thats the biggest danger. If you need the data on the SD card or have a certain amount of reliability theres no way around getting a good branded one. These cheap ones make more sense in cases where you kinda just need one for something quick and you want to have a bunch E.g. SBCs, for ROMs, etc.
Great content you should just do more testing. You should show us in the video what are the downsides and upsides of such a cheap device. That to the side you did a great job on shorts and on main chanell
Thanks for the critic! This is indeed a valid point and I will try my best to incorporate this in the future. One of the downsides (which I forgot to mention) is the longevety of these SSDs, which could in the worst case take years to test, but I would've loved to include a failure rate or smth. That aside. I would love to hear if there is a specific aspect you would've wanted me to cover or go deeper into.
I think I mentioned it on another video (or community post), but the long term testing is currently on hold. The method, I used took way to long and was inconsistent.
@@dyXurChannel no you didnt, its time consuming nice to hear youre working on it though, reliability and durability are the main issues with these cheaper media since theyre usually main brand rejects and it proves, the results are the same within a normal margin of error
Now this is very useful video, thank you so much :). On the other side of the spectrum, being good micro sd cards, what other specific budget and non budget card options do you suggest, if any?
@@yareyaredaze9450 To be completely honest I don't have a seperate category for budget and non-budget I can recommend. Prices have come down by a lot, even for brand ones. Both SanDisk (e.g extreme pro & plus) and Kingston (e.g. CANVAS) haven't let me down so far.
I basically used f3 to test reads, writes and size and used badblocks to check their integrity. Cheap flash (and sd cards in general iirc) sadly don't implement SMART. Otherwise I would've used that as well. Also, thanks for the sub!
In regards to long-term testing. I started testing some of the drives / cards, but would like your input on this issue. Check out this community post for more info: ua-cam.com/users/postUgkx-QyWJm01kRqExuClV2dTtY_9YXvas27w
I looked at sd card prices on Aliexpress and the Lexar ones now cost almost as much as they would in the shop. I bought a cheap "Xiaomi" 256GB, F3 reports the capacity as 128GB and flags it as a fake. Furthermore my dashcam can't even write to the card. Well, well. For larger capacity cards it's a waste of time buying the cheap ones.
When you say the capacity is correct, you mean that you tried to actually put at least 25/30gb of data in them? Or did you just read the capacity by a software? Because they could have a fake firmware in them, declaring a bigger capacity.
I used a software that fills the SD card up with files and then checks if all of these files are still correct or not. It's called F3. Most people are more familiar with H2Test
@@Riz_Aviation_722 I wouldn't be so sure about that. The trick with fake SD cards, is that they appear to be working, so that someone who doesn't runs out of time for a complaint. It might be leftover stock, that they are selling.
Well if the price is roughly 3 to 4 times of the 128 one I would say so. But as it has been mentioned by other commenters. There is a good chance that these are B-Ware. 512 might be too risky if you ask me.
I was shopping on Amazon for a 1TB micro sd for my Nintendo switch and I was surprised they were $88 average. I bought one on AliExpress for $8 and it’s worked fine for over a year. I can’t complain. 😂
@@lifeofmike556 Usually the way these really large ones work is that they are in truth like 128GB (or less) and once you reach that limit it either starts overwriting old data or refuse to write new one. Hell even $88 seems "low" since even HDDs still cost like $30 per TB. If I were you I'd take that Micro SD card and use F3 or H2Testw on it. Just back up your data before you do it.
In that case it should be obvious though. But I still had to make sure (you never know if they didn't just print 32GB on a SDHC card which can be max 4GB), otherwise there would be no use in testing any further.
try something bigger I tried with 3 512GB cards - all fake, 8gb (one of them 16/9 real, the rest only reported and even the 8gb were not reliable enough to make some use of the experimental spending.
As some others and me have pointed out, past 128GB you'll rarely (if at all) get anything legit (especially if the price is too low), since it hasn't even been that long since 512GB cards came onto the market.
Update 2024-11-29: The Bliksem Football (0:39 C4R4) lost its partition table while transfering. Might still work, but I don't trust it.
Update: The Extrem PRO (0:39 C1R1) is no longer working. Broken completely.
I think Lexar are the best cuz i saw a lot of those mobile handled console that emulating like nes and gba using them, mean they are good, also they have an official store on AliExpress so there are legit.
I have 64 gb Lexar for 1 year working great.
you rock for still giving us updates, thank you!
Thx dude 👍
Im honestly surprised that they all have true capacities (besides the ones that are just plain broken).
Yeah me as well. But it also makes sense since most of those fake 2TB Micro SDs are often enough 32GB, so it probably wouldn't be cheaper to lie about a 32GB card.
@@dyXurChannel Have you Tested 256GB Cards from Same manufactor are they thrue Capacity ? i ordered a 256gb from Temu No name they are Fake only 16GB .
Some time ago I bought two SD cards from AliExpress. One is a Sandisk, the other is a Microdrive, both 64 gigabytes. Capacity and speeds were as described and worked well from the start. I used them on phones to store photos. But after a month or two my photos started breaking. Some could not be read, others disappeared for no reason. The tests showed that the cards were fine (didn't give any errors), but after a while they lost data. Both cards have the same problem on two different phones. Now I have cards purchased from my country and no problems :)
ty so much for this comparison. this is a really useful resource for people looking for a deal on micro sd. ty, seriously.
Thanks! I'm glad it helps.
Nice video showing what Aliexpress SD cards really are sometimes
Definitely Didn't expect the Halloween card to stand a chance tho lol
I was surprised in general, that none of the working ones were much slower than the baseline. Hell, some like the Lexar were straight up more than double the speed.
Wow I've seen Lexar in alot of stuff like clone console from Aliexpress but did not know that it would be actually decently fast
If I ever get a flash cart I'll think of getting lexar
Dont buy lenovo those will crash everytime when transferring
Thanks for reviewing these!
I needed a new 64GB micro sd card and here in the Netherlands they are around € 10 - 15 a piece in the shop and I wondered if the AliExpress ones are any good. That's how I found this video. I used the same strategy as you: free shipping for at least 3 items, they were all € 2,53 each so I bought 4 ones of 64GB and different brands like the Lexar, Halloween and Christmas. It would be nice to get 4 for the price of one. Transfer speed is not that important to me but as long as they have the right capacity I am happy. But I will let you know the results when they arrive and I have the opportunity to test them. Great video, thanks. Liked and subscribed!
Any news?
@@filippocara0510 For just storage they work great: 3 pieces of 64GB card including shipping for around € 5.50 (about US$6) but they come nowhere near the advertised read and write speed. Some perform slightly better than others, but for me they work great: I only need them for storage anyway. The same goes for USB drives, I bought several of them and the all have the right capacity but not the read-write speed. It seems the pictures are printed on later so the brands and images don't really indicated anything imo. P.S. Of course 2TB drives are not that cheap, if you buy SD cards or USB drives up to 128GB it's probably going to have the right capacity but read and write slower. GL!
@@filippocara0510 The tf cards took over their life!
I have three lexar. I used it on two of my dash cams and one on a video camera. None broke. All run well for over 4 months so far.
Slight question how do you know the true Wright’s and reads 😅
I buy cheap SD card sadly because I’m poor
I use a tool called F3 (Fight Flash Fraud) that writes data onto the SD and then checks their hash. From that I get the actual amount.
F3 also gives me the speeds, but I follow this usually up with KDiskMark
most 32-64 are usually true capacity but above that like 128gb are risky and I highly doubt there is a 1tb one that is legit. I have a dragon 128gb Mico Sd for my switch and it does the job pretty well. You can't trust a review unless it's tested with H2testw or a similar program, the first Sd I bought was a 32 disguised as 128 :/
Yeah so far 32-64 GB have gave good results. But yeah, when you get into the 3-digits it is risky.
There are 1TB ones, but not on AliExpress and they cost 100$ to 200$ and certainly not 2$ like some ads that are out there.
F3 (which is used in the video) is like H2test, but for Linux, Mac & Win.
😅 nah bro got Hella scammed
Every one I've ever purchased all different sizes and brands approx 10, not one worked without crashing and losing all data. DON'T BUY FROM ANY SELLER BOASTING CHEAP PRICES.
i rather buy a reputable sd card because i already had one unbranded sd card corrupt on me
Yeah thats the biggest danger. If you need the data on the SD card or have a certain amount of reliability theres no way around getting a good branded one.
These cheap ones make more sense in cases where you kinda just need one for something quick and you want to have a bunch E.g. SBCs, for ROMs, etc.
I thinking about getting Lexar 128gb for my rg35xx i hope I won't be disappointed
Green Football good for me that far, haloween is not that good slow loading on my 3ds ! Best ones i tried are the kodak sd card !
Great content you should just do more testing. You should show us in the video what are the downsides and upsides of such a cheap device. That to the side you did a great job on shorts and on main chanell
Thanks for the critic! This is indeed a valid point and I will try my best to incorporate this in the future.
One of the downsides (which I forgot to mention) is the longevety of these SSDs, which could in the worst case take years to test, but I would've loved to include a failure rate or smth.
That aside. I would love to hear if there is a specific aspect you would've wanted me to cover or go deeper into.
Very helpful input, thank you. I'll definitely check out the long-term testing as well.
I think I mentioned it on another video (or community post), but the long term testing is currently on hold. The method, I used took way to long and was inconsistent.
i really miss a reliability test
they seem to be all the same, looks like rebadged rejects
even the extreme pro seems like a rejected kingston card
Yeah I goofed on that one, but it is in the works! Both for these and the SDDs.
@@dyXurChannel no you didnt, its time consuming
nice to hear youre working on it though, reliability and durability are the main issues with these cheaper media since theyre usually main brand rejects
and it proves, the results are the same within a normal margin of error
Now this is very useful video, thank you so much :). On the other side of the spectrum, being good micro sd cards, what other specific budget and non budget card options do you suggest, if any?
@@yareyaredaze9450 To be completely honest I don't have a seperate category for budget and non-budget I can recommend. Prices have come down by a lot, even for brand ones.
Both SanDisk (e.g extreme pro & plus) and Kingston (e.g. CANVAS) haven't let me down so far.
An awesome video, didn't know about f3.
How did you test them, did you use probe?
You have my subscription. 👍
I basically used f3 to test reads, writes and size and used badblocks to check their integrity.
Cheap flash (and sd cards in general iirc) sadly don't implement SMART. Otherwise I would've used that as well.
Also, thanks for the sub!
In regards to long-term testing. I started testing some of the drives / cards, but would like your input on this issue. Check out this community post for more info: ua-cam.com/users/postUgkx-QyWJm01kRqExuClV2dTtY_9YXvas27w
In order to work perfectly what they need to do i bought one 256 gb and it crash a lot but still it say 256gb it doesn't transfer data
@@lionm8699 If it crashes it could ve the capacity is fake. You can heck with H2W or F3
@dyXurChannel I know is fake is from China bought it on ebay but is there a solution
I looked at sd card prices on Aliexpress and the Lexar ones now cost almost as much as they would in the shop. I bought a cheap "Xiaomi" 256GB, F3 reports the capacity as 128GB and flags it as a fake. Furthermore my dashcam can't even write to the card. Well, well. For larger capacity cards it's a waste of time buying the cheap ones.
Yeah past 64GB I generally would recommend to just go with a reliable brand bough in a trustworthy store.
When you say the capacity is correct, you mean that you tried to actually put at least 25/30gb of data in them? Or did you just read the capacity by a software? Because they could have a fake firmware in them, declaring a bigger capacity.
I used a software that fills the SD card up with files and then checks if all of these files are still correct or not. It's called F3. Most people are more familiar with H2Test
Great video , very useful
Thanks, this was really helpful
do you still want data sent to you??
If you have some, sure! I try to keep the pinned commented for updates and further information, so anything would be always appreciated!
Thanks for that extremely useful video man 👍🙏
Hi great video, but I have a question, I want to use them on my psp but I don't know if they will break soon. Do they still work?
I haven't tested all of them, but the ones I have in use still work. But as always: If you want to be on the safe side, use only trusted brands.
@@dyXurChanneldo you recommend higher storage? or only 64gb?
@@SrEnrikitooo Since you want them for a PSP I'd recommend 64 or less. The higher the storage the longer the PSP takes to load initially.
@@dyXurChannelok thanks!!
i found a 2TB SanDIAN card on aliexpress for 20 cents💀
I wonder if that even covers the price of making it even if this is as fake as can be.
@@dyXurChannel if im being honest, its probably just a small piece of plastic that does nothing.
@@Riz_Aviation_722 I wouldn't be so sure about that. The trick with fake SD cards, is that they appear to be working, so that someone who doesn't runs out of time for a complaint.
It might be leftover stock, that they are selling.
I noticed microdata has 512gb card, do you think it has real capacity?
Well if the price is roughly 3 to 4 times of the 128 one I would say so.
But as it has been mentioned by other commenters. There is a good chance that these are B-Ware. 512 might be too risky if you ask me.
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Football blew my mind
I was shopping on Amazon for a 1TB micro sd for my Nintendo switch and I was surprised they were $88 average. I bought one on AliExpress for $8 and it’s worked fine for over a year. I can’t complain. 😂
@@lifeofmike556 Usually the way these really large ones work is that they are in truth like 128GB (or less) and once you reach that limit it either starts overwriting old data or refuse to write new one.
Hell even $88 seems "low" since even HDDs still cost like $30 per TB. If I were you I'd take that Micro SD card and use F3 or H2Testw on it. Just back up your data before you do it.
They dont BS 32gb cards. You have to buy the ridiculous 2tb for $4 to find fake storage capacity
In that case it should be obvious though. But I still had to make sure (you never know if they didn't just print 32GB on a SDHC card which can be max 4GB), otherwise there would be no use in testing any further.
You say out loud the speeds are in megabits per second, yet you write MB/s.
That's pretty contradictory there!
Yeah I've messed up. The speeds are meassured in bytes not bits.
thank you so much
this was helpfull ❤❤
try something bigger I tried with 3 512GB cards - all fake, 8gb (one of them 16/9 real, the rest only reported and even the 8gb were not reliable enough to make some use of the experimental spending.
As some others and me have pointed out, past 128GB you'll rarely (if at all) get anything legit (especially if the price is too low), since it hasn't even been that long since 512GB cards came onto the market.
Lexar well know now.
before watchin all of them are probably fake
@@KeinNiemand Do you mean as in wrong capacity? You might be surprised
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