Top Dog SD Card?

[Greatest Cupcake]

Alrighty Then.

 

With the advent of the Nintendo Switch^TM, SD cards with high, constant Write speeds are crucial, if you plan on going mostly digital with your new console.

Problem is, there seems to be very little choice, and not much new in this arena. I've only found three that were suitable in my eyes, but two out of the three

I have were released in 2014, the last being released in late 2016. I was wondering if speeds could have been improved since then, and if not speed,

at least price or size. Just to keep things simple, UHS-II U3 class SDXC cards will probably be the only ones mentioned. 

 

Here's the three I've Found:

Lexar 64GB

Sandisk 64GB

Delkin 64GB

 

I was searching for 64GB in particular, but these three have 128GB variants as well. This might just be a me problem, as all three of these boast write speeds of over 200mb/s.

I guess what I wanted to see, is if there are any SD cards that I'm not aware of that are faster, cheaper with the same speed, or something else. What also worries me is these

speeds they tell you are often not constant read/writes, but bursts. Am I being too picky on the three choices I've found, or is there more out there I'm unaware of?

 

Edit: For blind peeps, text size was upped.

[ProjectBox153]

I've never heard of Delkin before, but what's up with the weird formatting? Your text looks like this.

[manikyath]

well, it's gonna sound a bit fanboy-y, but sandisk has yet to let me down, and i unfortunately cant say the same about kingston, adata seems to be on par with sandisk (but i'm talking about literally one device worth of experience), and samsung SD cards are quite literally hilareously expensive compared to the rest.

 

which... kinda covers all brands of SD cards i can get my hand on. i have *one* lexar usb stick, and it's quite literally my "only used for the rare occasion i need a lot of data" drive, because it's the biggest one i have, and even counting my pair of 256MB drives, the slowest one in the bunch. i dont know what they did wrong with that thing, but it's painfully slow.

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I've never heard of Delkin before

looks like the same type of brand that came with my 3D printer for storing gcode files, which has only corrupted on me twice so far.

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

looks like the same type of brand that came with my 3D printer for storing gcode files, which has only corrupted on me twice so far.

That's useful. "Hey drive, go and corrupt all my data for me." "Oh crap."

[Greatest Cupcake]

So Delkin might not be the best choice, at least in terms of reliability. But both Lexar and Sandisk have been proven to be incredibly reliable. Any from Samsung with 200+ write speeds?

[Wrb]

Sandisk is the only one I've used, (a 4gb USB stick),  and it's worked flawlessly for ages. So sandisk gets my vote.

 

[flibberdipper]

On 2/21/2017 at 11:27 AM, Greatest Cupcake said:

So Delkin might not be the best choice, at least in terms of reliability. But both Lexar and Sandisk have been proven to be incredibly reliable. Any from Samsung with 200+ write speeds?

(super late on this but this tab has been open since like an hour after you made this thread)

 

I've had an 8GB SanDisk card since around 2010 and it has worked bombass flawlessly other than the casing starting to open up at the connector end. SanDisk gets all my votes.