SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC storage card ZDNET's key takeaways SanDisk's High Endurance Video microSDXC Cards are on sale for $53 for the 256GB version.
They're the perfect cards for continuous recording, and are fast enough to handle 4K video recording.
They are more expensive than regular microSD cards. $50.56 at Amazon $120.55 at Best Buy more buying choices
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On Valentine's Day, 2023, I got it into my head to test the long-term durability of microSD cards. This idea came to me after encountering failures in a few Raspberry Pi projects that involved writing large amounts of data to storage cards over extended periods.
I had a handful of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC cards, specifically designed for heavy use in dash cams, body cams, and home security cameras, so I decided to put them to the test.
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I grabbed three dash cams I had lying around (yeah, that's the sort of stuff I have lying around my place), set them up to point out a window into my garden, connected them to battery backups, and let them roll.
And roll they did. Day and night… spring, summer, autumn, winter… for three years.
SanDisk manufactures two lines of microSD cards specifically designed for intensive usage in devices like dash cams and security cameras: the High Endurance and Max Endurance cards. As the name suggests, the Max Endurance cards are the ultimate choice, promising a staggering 120,000 hours -- approximately 13 years! -- of continuous recording.
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