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by selcuka 1332 days ago
Not to defend counterfeits products, but I wouldn't trust even the best SD card on earth to store something I care about.
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For an SD card, “store something you care about” will very often mean photos or video. You have no choice but to trust the SD card for the time it takes you to get to your computer where you can dump the contents into something more reliable.

High end cameras usually have dual card slots to help deal with this, but even that won’t help when the failure mode is trying to write past the cards’ actual physical capacity, because the counterfeit advertise more storage than what’s actually there.

“Care about” could even just mean wanting the thing to provide at least, say, two nines of reliability. If my Raspberry Pi stops working after 2 years because the SD card failed, fine. If it stops working after 1 day because the SD card falsifies its capacity, I have zero nines and I’m not happy.