Amazon Basics has produced some great computing devices in their history – one sale, worth remembering full size mechanical keyboard for £23 which I reviewed and found surprisingly good value for money. Today, however, it’s different: a 256GB Amazon Basics-branded Micro SD card sells for just £15.67 instead of the UK RRP of £26.99.
Here’s what I learned about the card, and why I think it’s worth picking up if you’re in need of a memory card for your Steam Deck, Switch, or whatever.
First and foremost, Amazon has partnered with a well-known manufacturer to produce its branded memory cards. Just as it tapped the prized Ergotron to produce its own branded display forks, it partnered with Lexar owner Longsys to produce the cards – so it’s no surprise that they are legal.
The card received an A2 rating for its speed, indicating that you can run games or apps directly from the card and get acceptable performance. The A2 rating specifically requires 4K IOPS random read, 2K IOPS random write, and 10MB/s sequential sequential write speed. As for top speed, the card is rated up to 100MB/s read and 90MB/s write, so it’s suitable for recording 4K 30fps video in case you’re using it in a mirrorless camera. flippers, action cams or drones.
In our investigations of Best Micro SD cards for Steam Deck, the Amazon Basics card didn’t appear in our testing, but we found a very narrow gap between memory cards of different specifications and manufacturers, indicating that the Steam Deck is not congested by storage capacity. The average Micro SD card storage is obviously – it’s probably more of a CPU limit than anything else. That means an Amazon Basics card will work perfectly here, and that goes double for the Switch, where even very slow Micro SD cards work just fine.
In any case, I have a match of Modern Warfare 2 (in 2022) waiting, so I’ll be back for it! Thank you for reading my deals this week, if you really did, and in general thank you for supporting RPS through clicking the links in these types of trading articles. . We appreciate it. I’ll see you next week for more deals, so have a good deal!
