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A few weeks back I bought this 1TB microSD card during an Amazon flash-sale for about £330 to use in my Android smartphone, a 2018 HTC U12+. I liked the idea of having all my CD/Hi-res (FLAC) format music in my pocket on the move. I was also bored of having to convert down new music to MP3 format in order to accommodate my previous SanDisk 256GB microSD, which had put in a very respectable 5 year service by this point.
The 1TB microSD was simple and efficient to use from the moment I inserted it into my phone. Android encryption enabled from the word go and it took about 15 hours to copy 800GB via the phone over a USB 3.0 connection. I simply left it going overnight and now have my lossless music collection in my pocket as intended, with bags of room to spare for future albums.
Admittedly, £300+ is a lot of money and I ummed and ahhed about purchasing it for a good couple of weeks before taking the plunge. Value for money? Questionable. But the product itself is certainly of high quality and performed exactly to expectations so I can't fault those aspects.
A Note on Counterfeit SanDisk microSDs: Thanks to an unscrupulous eBay seller I had been stung by purchasing a very convincing fake version of this card a few weeks before this Amazon genuine purchase.
What did I learn? Stick to reputable sellers and if the price is too good to be true then it usually is. The counterfeit card became useless as once I began filling it with data, the "earlier" files I had copied vanished. There were other tell-tale signs including subtle differences in the packaging vs genuine (Made in Taiwan vs China) and there was no microchip "bump" on the back of the fake. A final thing to look out for is a genuine SanDisk microSDs should show up as "SanDisk SD card" in your device. If you've got a fake it will simply show up as "SD card", which is what I had.
Thankfully I got my money back through the eBay/PayPal framework but it is wise to triple check images and listings when buying SanDisk microSDs.
| Colour | Red/Gold |
|---|---|
| Special feature | X Ray Proof, Water Proof, Temperature Proof, Drop Proof |
| Read speed | 160 Megabytes Per Second |
| Item weight | 5 g |
| Warranty type | Limited |
| Write speed | 90.0 |
| Hardware interface | microSDXC |
| Secure digital association speed class | Class 10 |
| Product dimensions | 1L x 15W millimetres |
| Product dimensions | 15D x 10W x 1H centimetres |
| Manufacturer | SanDisk |
| UPC | 619659169688 |
| Item model number | SDSQXA1-128G-GN6MA |
| RAM Size | 128 GB |
| Memory Clock Speed | 160 Megabytes Per Second |
| Hard Disk Description | Memory Card |
| Voltage | 1 Volts |
| Wattage | 5 |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Item Weight | 4.54 g |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
