Samsung 128GB Pro Endurance microSD

Bought the 256GB one to use in my Viofo A229 dash camera. Worked well for a bit, but had to be retired after only a year as files either weren't saving or were becoming corrupted. Due to budget reasons at the time, I replaced it with a 256GB High Endurance microSD card from TeamGroup instead. I honestly expected the Samsung to beat the TeamGroup card, but it actually loses in every category except warranty (the 256GB Samsung card has a 5 year warranty, the TeamGroup 256GB card only has a 2 year warranty). According to Crystal Disk Mark, the Samsung card is slower than the TeamGroup card, despite being priced about 50% more than the TeamGroup card. I only tested write speed since that's what matters for a dashcam. Sequential writes were slightly slower on the Samsung, but random writes were much slower than the TeamGroup card. So who came out on top? --Write Speed (seq.): TeamGroup (4.5% faster) --Write Speed (random): TeamGroup (43.2% faster) --Value for Money: TeamGroup ($18 versus Samsung's $28) --Warranty: Samsung (5 years versus TeamGroup's 2 years) See included screenshot for test results. A Note About Warranties: Warranties on flash media like these microSD cards are largely irrelevant. If the card fails, your data is lost, and it's your data that matters, not the card. These microSD cards have gotten so cheap, that replacing a failed card costs about as much as a Big Mac (at McDonalds' current high-end sit-down restaurant pricing), also making the warranty much less useful. If these cards cost $50 or more like they used to, the warranty would be a bigger consideration, but as prices are at the time of this writing, they just aren't. So while the Samsung card may have suffered a failure of some kind that has reduced its performance instead of rendering it completely unusable, thereby making it possibly eligible for replacement under Samsung's warranty, the fact that it happened after only 1 year of use and a better-performing card is much cheaper, coupled with the headache of dealing with bad customer service, means the longer warranty is... irrelevant. * Test Details: Test PC Specs: Intel i7-14700K 64GB 6400MT DDR5 RAM Samsung 980 Pro 2TB m.2 NVMe System Drive UGreen USB 3.0 Card Reader connected to USB 3.0 port Crystal Disk Mark Configuration: version 9.0.1 Settings > Test Data > Default (Random) Settings > Flash Memory Profile > Default Profile > Write [+Mix] Test Count: 9 (Maximum) Test Size (Data): 1 GB** ** Technically, it's 1 GiB, but I'm writing for the average person for whom GB is more recognizable and easier to understand than GiB. Since my dashcam is currently configured to write files that are close to 900 MB in size, I chose the 1GB (1,000 MB) option for testing.