SanDisk High Endurance review: 20,000 hours of testing later, it's the microSD card to beat

• SanDisk's High Endurance Video microSDXC Cards are on sale for $53 for the 256GB version.
• They're the perfect cards for continuous recording, and are fast enough to handle 4K video recording.
• They are more expensive than regular microSD cards.

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On Valentine's Day, 2023, I got it into my head to test the long-term durability of microSD cards. This idea came to me after encountering failures in a few Raspberry Pi projects that involved writing large amounts of data to storage cards over extended periods. 

I had a handful of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC cards, specifically designed for heavy use in dash cams, body cams, and home security cameras, so I decided to put them to the test.

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