Hardware Are ONN SD cards any good?

rufuszombot · Oct 19, 2019

Saw a 256gb at Walmart for a pretty gpod price, but I dont know if they are worth it or not? I only have 128gb now, and am constantly running of of space and having to delete things.

Hayato213 · Oct 19, 2019

Probably fake.

masagrator · Oct 19, 2019

onn is a walmart cheap electronic manufacturer. It's official, so if they are using V30 sign, then it's real. But we don't know how long it will live before it get first corruptions.

rufuszombot · Oct 19, 2019

masagrator said:
onn is a walmart cheap electronic manufacturer. It's official, so if they are using V30 sign, then it's real. But we don't know how long it will live before it get first corruptions.

Thats what im worried about. I know their electronics arent really top of the line, but I dont know how badly they could screw up an SD card.

Clydefrosch · Oct 19, 2019

how much more expensive could a sandisk really be?

rufuszombot · Oct 19, 2019

Clydefrosch said:
how much more expensive could a sandisk really be?

~$10 difference, so probably not worth the risk.

Shadow#1 · Oct 19, 2019

rufuszombot said:
Saw a 256gb at Walmart for a pretty gpod price, but I dont know if they are worth it or not? I only have 128gb now, and am constantly running of of space and having to delete things.

Yes they r rebranded PNY

IncredulousP · Oct 19, 2019

Personally, I only trust Sandisk, Samsung, and Kingston. Never had a problem with any of their flash storage devices. I do have to admit, I've been using a crucial ssd as an OS drive that I got, used, 6 years ago, and S.M.A.R.T. reports nothing wrong with it yet.

tigersaman · Oct 19, 2019

at this point i can swear on Adata sd cards. the have never failed on me on about 8-10 year of use. ( i bought the first one because of good warranty in my country - iran - but never had to use the service despite having multiple ones. )

tech3475 · Oct 19, 2019

rufuszombot said:
~$10 difference, so probably not worth the risk.

From my experience, the only real benefit I've seen to Sandisk is that they're more likely to enter Read Only mode compared to rivals when they fail.

Of course it depends on how important the data is to you vs the money vs any warranty.

rufuszombot · Oct 19, 2019

tech3475 said:
From my experience, the only real benefit I've seen to Sandisk is that they're more likely to enter Read Only mode compared to rivals when they fail.

Of course it depends on how important the data is to you vs the money vs any warranty.

Read only mode saved me when my girlfriends SD failed in her 3DS. It would be for my switch running Emunand, but also OFW with all my saves, so I dont know if it would be worth it in case I lost it all.

tech3475 · Oct 19, 2019

rufuszombot said:
Read only mode saved me when my girlfriends SD failed in her 3DS. It would be for my switch running Emunand, but also OFW with all my saves, so I dont know if it would be worth it in case I lost it all.

On OFW AFAIK saves are stored on the internal NAND, without something redirecting it.

rufuszombot · Oct 19, 2019

tech3475 said:
On OFW AFAIK saves are stored on the internal NAND, without something redirecting it.

You are right. I forgot about that; I rarely switch over.

MichaelShawJr · Oct 20, 2019

This is the SD card I recommend. Its sandisk (name brand), has 400GB, and very reasonably priced. https://amzn.to/35RwEeb

barronwaffles · Oct 20, 2019

There's a fairly recent thread where someone seems to have had one internally short and burn out inside their switch - https://gbatemp.net/threads/sd-card-melted-my-switch.550495/

MrCokeacola · Oct 21, 2019

barronwaffles said:
There's a fairly recent thread where someone seems to have had one internally short and burn out inside their switch - https://gbatemp.net/threads/sd-card-melted-my-switch.550495/

working as intended.

Burntzebra23 · Oct 23, 2019

rufuszombot said:
You are right. I forgot about that; I rarely switch over.

I’m ysing one and it works pretty good! It’s got a cheap adapter tho used it a couple times and after a couple days of some good use it will randomly disconnect for computer

PlatinumSif · Oct 24, 2019

barronwaffles said:
There's a fairly recent thread where someone seems to have had one internally short and burn out inside their switch

Funnily enough he said he went and exchanged it for the same brand and it's working fine. :Thinking:

Burntzebra23 · Oct 24, 2019

PlatinumSif said:
Funnily enough he said he went and exchanged it for the same brand and it's working fine. :Thinking:

That’s because when I put the backplate back on my switch after having SD reader problems I forgot to take the SD card out and it cracked because I pushed it on and thought the snap was just the plate snapping into place, the cracked SD Card went Nuclear which I’m pretty sure all SDcards will do when cracked

Raylight · Jan 1, 2020

slower then a Vita SD thats for sure takes longer for games to load

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