This is a brand that I found while browsing through the microSD cards on AliExpress. The colorful design caught my attention. What can I say? (Squirrel!)
This card fails the criteria that I set out for determining what is considered a name-brand card for a couple of reasons:
- As far as I can tell, the vendor doesn’t sell more than just microSD cards.
- As far as I can tell, the vendor doesn’t have a website.
- The information in the card’s CID register bears signs that the vendor was attempting to mask the card’s true origin — specifically, the manufacturer ID was set to hex
fe, and the OEM ID was set to hex3432.
It also fails the criteria for being a knockoff card — which means that this card is going to be considered an off-brand card.
This card’s sequential read speeds were slightly above average, but all other performance metrics were below average. It bears the Class 6 and U1 marks (despite the fact that the SSR indicates that it’s actually Class 10), and performance from the two operational samples (the third was dead-on-arrival) was good enough to qualify for these marks.
On the endurance testing front:
- Sample #1’s first error was a data mismatch error during round 1,573. It only went about 10 more read/write cycles until — during round 1,583 — the CSD became corrupted and the card began to report itself as 127MB in size. At this point, I decided to declare the card “dead”.
- Sample #2 reported its capacity as 127MB right out of the package. Because of this — and because of the fact that it wouldn’t initialize when I plugged it into my Realtek reader — I decided to declare it “dead on arrival”.
- Sample #3, on the other hand, did quite well: its first error was a corrupted data error during round 13,759. It survived 18,913 read/write cycles before it got to the point where it would throw an error on every write attempt. It was the second card in my collection to hit 10,000 read/write cycles completed without errors (after sample #1 of the Hiksemi NEO 8GB). So I guess 1 out of 3 is…better than nothing?
Overall? While they did get decent sequential read speeds, and one sample did well on endurance tests, this is about where the advantages end. The poor overall performance and poor overall endurance were enough to turn me off of these cards.
My recommendation? Don’t buy these. There are better options out there.
September 25, 2025