When I read the customer reviews on Amazon it seems that high endurance cards sometimes fail sooner than "normal" cards. I have the original SD card in my Homepatrol-1 and have more or less 5 hours use every day with replay recording enabled for almost 10 years now. The dashcam in my car use the same standard 32GB SD card that gets full two times a week since 5 years back. The only SD card or USB memory that have failed for me where the one included in a Whistler scanner that where faulty from first time power up and cannot be reformatted.
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I drank the Kool Aid and bought a Samsung PRO Endurance 32gb Micro SD card for the 436HP. 32gb is
far bigger than you could ever possibly need, but that was the smallest they make. But I think some of us have been a little mislead as to what we gain buying the "Endurance" cards. The more I read it's not about how many reads and writes they can do. It's about how they stand up to abuse, temperature, shock, humidity, etc. I think all Micro SD cards are very robust in that regard, in fact almost indestructible! They also tend to be capable of faster reads/writes. I don't think that's a big factor either. Scanners do not read and write at fast speeds. Someone else mentioned recently that the larger cards tend to boot up slower in scanners.
The most important performance/reliability factor IMHO is the card's edge contacts. If you can even find them buy one that has real gold plated contacts. They would be optimium for being corosion resistant, preventing any electrical resistance or intermittent contact. The slightest interruption in the connection to the scanner would cause failure. It's probably a good idea to occasionally remove the card and buff the edge contacts with a cloth or a pencil eraser and give them a wipe of electrical contact cleaner. That and the act of removing and reinserting the card will also help the card to wipe the contacts in the socket and give them a better contact/conductance.
