TEAMGROUP A2 Pro Plus Card 512GB Micro SDXC UHS-I U3 A2 V30, Read/Write up to 160/110 MB/s for Nintendo-Switch, Steam Deck, Tablets, Smartphones with Adapter TPPMSDX512GIA2V3003

Great micro SDX drive. Fast. Inexpensive. Actually works over full 1 TB, unlike some other large capacity Micro SDX cards. Highly recommended. Works with all OSs. Just plug in and it works. Tried with (with appropriate adapter) Mac, IPad, windows10 (thinkPad), and Android. I formatted it ExFat for compatibility with Apple devices and Windows devices.

Team group has been around for some time now. They have proven themselves to be reliable.Great compatability. Easy to install. Format is fast.Great value for the money.I have had these cards for years and the 1st ones I got are still working.The speed is amazing. I just started backing these cards up from my security cameras on my pc. Now you don't really need these speeds for security cameras, but its about how fast they back up to other media. Sitting there for 6 hours or less than a hour. That is why you want these cards.If you are going to use them for video or even high mp cameras for stills these are a must have. That is if you have a camera that uses microsd.

I had bought real inexpensive 1 TB micro SD cards and Got What I Paid For!. Did not lose a whole lot of money on them; they were worthless pieces of junk and inuseable. So be warned!Saw this card and diligently went through all the reviews and then others I came across on the web. I cannot comment on the phtographic aspect since my purposes were for Documents only. Whereas the inexpensive card would not complete the f ile/document transfer of 54GB; this TeamGroup SD card finished quickly within 45minutes!Checking over the transfered files/documents, there were no errors. I highly recommend this card for your file/document transfers; though, again, I cannot comment on the photographic usage of this card. More times than not, U truly get what U pay for; and in this case the higher - though affordable- price was worth the effort and time.

Tried 2/5 and looks like it works great. Though not sure if it’s how all the companies operates or so? The size is only 222Gb after format and NOT 256Gb as advertised. How these companies lies to consumers that the real value of the size is 256,000,000,000 bytes and not 256Gb. Then don’t beeping advertised as Gb! We got cut off and robbed of 34Gb short. That’s allot of memory there, as you can buy a memory card for 34Gb value between how much again? And 5 cards x34 = 170 Gb short! They kept lying to us and sold short for the money. Will update in future if any broke down like a few other brands I run into in the past, if amazon allows edit update. Will let you know.

The media could not be loaded. TL:DR - a quality microSD card with great flash at a great price, the software is easy to use and install, it provides a very important useful stat but doesn’t offer much else. Like other Teamgroup microSD cards, doesn’t always play well with UHS-ii readers (at least Kingston ones anyway). A lifetime warranty is always a bonus!Video connected to this review highlights a write test for video .mp4 (2.5GB) and ~800 test photos 300KB-1MB in size and about 500KB average size.I want to preface this by saying I am very happy to see *someone* try and take S.M.A.R.T. reading seriously in the SD/MicroSD card space, a space previously reserved solely for ridiculously priced Industrial SD/MicroSD cards. I hope to see both more cards supporting S.M.A.R.T. and more customers supporting it. It can mark the difference in whether you can save your files or not and seeing how much wear is on your flash is important to knowing its longevity!Teamgroup has definitely achieved something great with their T-Create line. These cards are fast, and the NAND Flash appears to be of a consistent and high quality (see pictures for reference). The construction of the card is good, and I’m even impressed with the microSD to SD Adapter, with a nice quality to the adapter and high resolution printed on label, not just a cheap sticker.PROS:*Affordable*Fast*Quality NAND Flash*S.M.A.R.T. feature*Lifetime Warranty*Quality Construction*Nice packaging and not too hard to openCONS:*Very basic S.M.A.R.T. reporting, but way better than nothing.*microSD card’s controller doesn’t always play well with UHS-ii readers.Formatted size approximately 115GB.SPEEDS: CrystalDiskMark (4GB test size)Transcend 3.0 Reader —READ: 96.33 MB/sWRITE: 83.78 MB/sSamsung uSD 3.0 Reader —READ: 95.60 MB/sWRITE: 82.27 MB/sKingston UHS-ii Reader* —READ: 31.45-173.71 MB/s*WRITE: 93.33MB/sAll next tests are done with Transcend 3.0 USB Reader.DiskGenius Bad Sector Verification:This tests the latency of blocks and checks for damaged blocks.RESULTS: 15041 good blocks, no bad blocks. Average access speed: ~94ms (comparable to Samsung Evo Plus/SanDisk Extreme microSD card).HD Tach:Read speeds 94.1 MB/s, consistency is good across the card.ATTO Benchmark:Low 90s read, high 80s writeTeamgroup’s S.M.A.R.T. Software:Can be downloaded from Teamgroup’s website. Easy to install. Just hit refresh and it will tell you how much life your card has. I assume it reads the amount of times the card’s NAND flash has been written to and extrapolates the expected lifespan of the card from this data.*sometimes the UHS-ii reader will read slowly, sometimes it reads at maximum speed. I’ve found this to also occur in Teamgroup’s PRO+ line. This really isn’t important for the average person however, very few readers are UHS-ii, and with the adoption of SD Express, it won’t be the future either. It could also be a problem with the Kingston UHS-ii specifically interacting with teamgroup’s lineup as well, other UHS-ii readers might work fine.

This SD card seems plenty fast for my Steam Deck needs. Added storage at a great price. It was recognized and formatted and I had a game ready to go within a matter of 30 min. Write speeds seem just as fast as the internal SSD, as well as in-game load times not suffering at all. It just does what it should. I’ll probably be ordering another one once this one fills up!