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PNY Pro Elite 1TB microSD card

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Two minute review PNY is a known quantity. It may not be as popular as better known brands such as Sandisk but it does have a long association with technology. It produces HP-branded storage products, sells Nvidia graphics cards, system memory as well as data science workstations and enterprise-grade GPUs. So getting the PNY Pro Elite 1TB microSD card came with a number of expectations and while the card did deliver, there’s a sense of disappointment. Where the PNY card falls behind the competition is pricing. Other than the usual microSD cards with fake capacities (you can easily spot them because of their too-good-to-be-true price tags), the most affordable microSD cards of this capacity are the 1TB Sandisk Ultra and the Silicon Power (both $137.99 at Amazon). The PNY Pro Elite retails for $179.99, a $40 premium that can be explained by the higher overall performance (at least on paper and for random reads/write speeds).  Note that Amazon delivers to a number of countries a...