Matt Cole

I’ve been doing endurance testing on microSD cards for 2 1/2 years now.

When it comes to my ongoing project, The Great MicroSD Card Survey, I’ve been categorizing my cards into one of three groups: Name brand cards Off-brand cards Knockoff cards The intent was that name-brand cards would be those cards that came from well-kno…

On July 27, 2023, I ordered my first batch of microSD cards from AliExpress: three Kioxia Exceria G2 32GB’s, a Kodak Ultra Performance 32GB (the gold version), three Hiksemi NEO 8GB’s, two Hiksemi NEO 32GB’s, three Microdrive 16GB’s (yes, the ones with the

It’s been exactly one year since I started this project.

If you’ve been following my microSD Card Survey, you might have noticed that I publish manufacturer IDs for (almost) all of the cards that I’ve tested (save a few where they came DOA or where I tested them before I thought to dump the registers off the ca…

Today, I’m posting the preliminary results of a project I’ve been working on for the last six months now.

Last updated: 3/28/2025 I get questions a lot about what PayPal users in any given country can do.

Note: tl;dr at the end.

Update 4/9/2021: Now includes a Python example!

I originally posted this article to x.com on August 3, 2010.