TCELL Gaming 256GB Micro SD Card, Nintendo Switch Compatible, microSDXC A2 USH-I U3 V30 Read 100MB/s Write 80MB/s with Adapter, Designed for Gaming Console

This is the second time I owned a TCELL TF card, I had one that was working so well for my dashcam until I accidentally dropped it in my dashboard and it slided down into the engine nacelle, I never seen it again. These TF cards are t have a lot of storage so you can save a lot of pictures, videos, or files. It also has really fast speeds up to 100 MB/s read.

I received both the gaming and superior+ TCELL uSD cards to review and tested them both. Theyre practically identical. At the time of this review, the gaming one was $2 more than the regular one. The cards are priced well for the storage and speed, so the only advice I have is get whichever is on sale/cheaper.

I got this card to trade with another member of the family who games all the time (at least in my eyes). I got a similar one for my phone. It is a lower end one with only 32GB, which translates to about 20 for apps and storage. After deducting space for OS and factory/carrier installed stuff. A 128GB with fast speeds will make me sweat less about ‘no available space’. And I tested it for few days and it work perfectly. The gamer in our family gave me his microSD and jumped on the opportunity to use a gaming microSD. It got tested since the which on the Nintendo switch lite. He reported being super impressed> He was happy and I was happy, got my old microSD back. The report after few days was quite conclusive: No lag, no slowness when playing. Read performance is great – as advertised.

I am very pleased with this Tcell microSDXC UHS-I card! I’m comparing this card to a similar

Good card. I tested this in my Mavic Air 2 (which requires a U3 speed card). It recorded flawlessly! I tested both uploading to and downloading from this card with the same files to the same location...comparing it to a Samsung U1 card. The downloading from speed was almost identical for both cards but the uploading to was about 15-20% faster with this card. That’s about as scientific as I can get...good card. Performed well!

i got this to store my picture and music and works great.

TCELL Gaming 128GB microSDXC: $22.49 at the time of review I just recently got a new laptop with a built-in microSD slot. I like using external cards for non-critical or large file/program storage (e.g. trying out a new game that I may or may not want to keep) as it keeps my hard drive better organized. This TCELL card seemed like the perfect candidate to fit the bill. This card comes in a completely retail package. It’s actually a nice full color clamshell cardboard and plastic pack that you might expect to find hanging on the wall of your favorite electronics store. The included adapter is also a nice touch. In terms of usability, it works (almost) exactly as advertised. In my case, I’m using it for large file storage (I’m actually using it for games, just on a PC) so I don’t use up my internal SSD space. It works just like any other microSD card. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite live up to its advertised speeds. I’ve attached an image of the speed test tool I used. The write speed was almost spot-on at 79mb/second. But try as I might, I wasn’t able to get a read speed higher than 89mb/second, a full 10% slower than advertised. To make sure it wasn’t just my laptop microSD port, I tried the included adapter. I also tried it on a different computer (a Mac) and 89mb/second is still the best speed I could get. For the record, I also tested a Samsung EVO microSD card and it achieved 94mb/second (still not the advertised 100mb/second). I can’t speak to longevity, as I didn’t perform wear testing (I’m not interested in burning out my card before its time). One other consideration I’d like to make is regarding the cost. At $22.49, this 128GB card comes in at nearly $4 more than major competitors Samsung and Sandisk. It’s hard to justify a card that underperforms (even if only by 5% as compared to competitors) and costs *more* than other options. ------------ *The Good*: Nice package with included SD card adapter. *The Bad*: Underperforms promised speed. Costs about 20% more than equivalent options. *The Bottom Line:* This card will suit my needs just fine. The speed discrepancy from competitors is small (5%) and it is otherwise functional. That being said, I can’t recommend it at its current cost. Three stars out of five for general usability but slightly lagging performance and an increased cost hold back those last two stars. I would not order this again.

This card is fast but it falls short of 128 GB. All my other 128 GB cards have 4-5 GB more available space than this one. Not sure why. But the card is Class 10, U3 rated and it does perform well.

I usually stick with name-brand cards but gave this one a shot for a handheld game emulator I have. In my experience, there are two critical tests of SD/MicroSD cards. The first one is whether the work, right out of the package. Ive gotten more than one in the past that has failed immediately (both name-brand and generic), but this one hasnt. Its been working now for a few days, so I feel like Im well past the period of immediate failure. The second test is whether its working a year later. I cant report on that yet. If it does fail, I will try to update this review. The write and read speeds seem snappy, but Im not exactly using it in any way that demands high speed. I transferred a few gigs of data to the card when I set it up and that one-time transfer seemed speedy. The card came with a full-size SD card shell to insert the MicroSD card into if you have an older device that uses that. I havent tested that. It didnt come with a case, which is also sometimes included with SD cards, though I cant remember ever personally using one of those, so its omission isnt missed by me.

The price/capacity of this card is basically the same as trusted brands like SanDisk and Samsung. The performance is about on par with those brands as well. Theres not a lot to distinguish this card from the others in this price range so its hard to recommend buying it over an established brand. The main thing for me anymore is reliability and its hard to gauge before writing a timely review for it. Ive had plenty of off-brand cards work fine for the first couple of months but once you re-write them five or six times they break - ostensibly as this is being marketed as a card for Nintendo Switch, its durability is going to be on-par with SanDisk or Samsung, but only time will tell. I will update this review in the future if and when the card fails.