# Recommend a microSD card? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-microsd-card/918405 "2020-08-18T13:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-microsd-card/918405/4 "2020-08-18T14:57:25Z")
Amazon is replete with fake Micro SD cards. If the name is weird and the price is low, it is probably fake. ([See this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-noname-weirdname-microsd-cards/832782).) Legitimate brands include: SanDisk Samsung Lexar SiliconPower Kingston Gigastone Micro Center Be careful if you buy a Lexar–the quality of the card is good, the packaging sucks. Last year I bought around five Micro SD cards at once from different brands. I unpacked them pretty casually (mostly they just dropped into my hand when I removed the plastic bubble from the cardboard) but when I went to remove the most expensive card in the lot (a high speed rating Lexar 256 GB) it snapped in three pieces as I tried to lift it from the bubble. They wedge their cards in tight, something problematic for something that I discovered to be very brittle with zero room for flexing. Here is a guide to the confusing mess of speed rating systems: > **[A buyer's guide to microSD cards: classes, speeds, recommendations, and more...](https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/09/buyers-guide-microsd-cards-classes-speeds-recommendations-spring-2017/)** --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-microsd-card/918405)._