![]() It also booted in a speedy 24.7 seconds, only 0.7 seconds slower than the Kingston Canvas React. In our tests on the Raspberry Pi 4, the Samsung Evo Plus offered consistently strong application opens, coming within 0.2 to 0.3 seconds of the leader. Most of us probably aren’t worried about submerging a card in water, but it’s nice to know that if you waterproof your Raspberry Pi, the card will be fine too. Samsung backs the Evo Plus with a 10 year warranty and claims that the card can survive X-rays, magnetic radiation and even 72 hours in seawater. Selling for a modest $8.51 (£7.29) at publication time, the Samsung Evo Plus offers solid performance from a highly-trusted brand at a very reasonable price. That helps immensely when you have multiple cards in a drawer and don’t know which is which. Because the surface is partially white, you can scribble on it with a Sharpie marker. The Silicon Power NAND 3D card also performed well on Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and Pi Zero W, though it didn’t lead in as many categories.ĭuring our testing we noticed that this card has one huge advantage over most of its competitors: the ability to physically write on it. It also, by a hair, loaded all of our apps fastest on the Pi 4, though its boot time was second slowest. In fact, we were so surprised at this card's performance that we tested a second unit to make sure the first one wasn’t a fluke.įor a price of just $6.99 (£5.99) at publishing time, the Silicon Power 3D NAND achieved the highest speeds on the Raspberry Pi 4 in almost all the IOzone tests, especially with 4K random writes. It’s also rated UHS Speed 1 rather than 3, although these ratings are largely meaningless (at least for Pi owners). We’re honestly shocked that the best performing Raspberry Pi microSD card in our roundup is also the cheapest one and comes from a lesser-known brand. ![]() In our tests we found that when using compatible SDR104 cards, the SD card speeds rival the USB 3 SSD speeds of the Raspberry Pi 4! With the recent announcement of the Raspberry Pi 5 and its SDR104 compliant micro SD card reader we can expect even better performance and we will be testing this and providing you with the best SDR104 compatible micro SD cards for your Raspberry Pi 5. ![]() If emulation is your goal then 32GB should be the bare minimum as PlayStation 1 CDROM images weigh in at around 700MB, so ten games can easily eat up around 25% of your micro SD storage. With every update and release gradually using more and more of your card, 8GB will soon become too small for a typical setup. You can claw back some space on your SD card, but with micro SD card prices being so low, even for high performance cards, now is the time to expand your storage. But for the full Raspberry Pi experience you will need the full install and that leaves you very little, if any, extra space on an 8GB card. Raspberry Pi OS can run on a card that’s as small as 8GB (see how to set up a Raspberry Pi) if used with the Lite version of the OS. ![]() We chose the 32GB capacity because it offers more than enough room for most use cases while not being appreciably more expensive than 8 or 16GB cards. ![]() At the time of writing, high performance 32GB micro SD cards can be picked up for $10! But which microSD card should you buy for your Raspberry Pi? To help find the answer, we tested ten different 32GB cards on a Raspberry Pi 4, a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and a Raspberry Pi Zero W to see which offers the best performance for the money. MicroSD cards are a cost effective storage means. ![]()
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