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BLACKVUE DR900S.. YES!! Please read............
Here is my experience with my purchase of the SanDisk 256GB High Endurance Video microSDXC Card.
I currently have a Blackvue DR900S 2CH dashcam system installed with a Samsung EVO 128GB SD Card. Nothing wrong with this card. The Samsung SD card has treated me well for over a year and has supplied me with quality footage with reliability. I wanted to upgrade to a higher capacity, high endurance SD card without paying an arm and a leg. Our Minnesota summers can get quite hot and humid. The cabin of my car gets pretty steamy hot and frigid in the winter. I wanted a High Endurance SD card that'll last with our Minnesota seasons.
I went through tons of reviews on many SD products and checked all of what Amazon had to offer before I made the decision on this SanDisk 256GB High Endurance Video microSDXC Card. I was pretty skeptical with the low reviews here. I took a chance because other vendor sites sold this specific 256GB card at around the same price. I like Amazon's return policy so I took the chance here.
On to the review. The thing to know off the bat is that this SD card is factory formatted as "exFAT." This factory format is not compatible with Blackvue dashcams. I spent countless hours trying to get this 256GB SD card + adapter to read in multiple Windows 10 laptops. Please remember "Windows 10." Out of curiosity, I then slotted the 256GB SD card into an android device just to make sure I wasn't going crazy. My android device was able to validate the storage and read the SD card... So now.. knowing that it works, I went on a limb and turned on an old laptop loaded with Windows 7. To my surprise, the SanDisk 256GB High Endurance Video microSDXC Card loaded up and I was able to see the drive!!!!!! I do not have Mac products so I cannot say for sure if this'll pop up for Mac. I can only imagine it would work with Mac.
While it was plugged into my Windows 7 laptop, as soon as I saw the drive, I opened up the FAT32FORMAT GUI from RidgeCorp to format it to FAT32. Note, you will have to make sure all windows showing the drive are closed. You should only be seeing your desktop and the FAT32FORMAT GUI from RidgeCorp. Otherwise you'll receive an error that the drive is still in use when you try to format it to FAT32. Did a quick format and within seconds, I was ready to rock. Placed the badboy into my Blackvue DR900S and it booted up! The camera formats the card as it does with any new SD card. After testing this out, I have not noticed any drop in quality from my Samsung EVO 128GB card to this. I did not experience any stuttering in 4K playback.
I really hope this helps avoid stress and hassle for the next person who purchases this or any SD card for their dashcam system. 250+ GB of available storage for my 2CH dashcam system is an amazing win.
July 2019 · Electronics · verified purchase