microSD Cards

I burned through 12 microSD cards over six weeks testing them on my Steam Deck OLED before settling on this shortlist. The biggest lesson? The Steam Deck’s card reader is hard-capped at UHS-I speeds (about 104MB/s), so dropping $200 on a flagship card rarely gives you faster load times than a $60 mid-range option. What […]

I bought my first Nintendo Switch back in 2018, and within three months the 32GB of internal storage was completely full. That moment forced me down the rabbit hole of testing microSD cards for Switch compatibility, and I have been benchmarking them ever since. Our team has spent the last three months stress-testing 18 different

I’ve been running Raspberry Pi boards since the original Model B in 2012, and I can tell you from 14 years of frustration: your microSD card is the single biggest bottleneck in any Pi project. After spending 90 days testing 8 microSD cards for this guide across three Raspberry Pi 5 units, two Pi 4s,