Looking for the best micro sd cards for the v4 camera. I’d prefer larger Space versus less. Thanks for your help.
Best Card? Probably any High Endurance card is good enough.
These or higher as minimum:
- U3
- V30
- C10
- A2 preferred
But best would probably trust Samsung high endurance (lasts longer) or Pro endurance (more extreme conditions) or max endurance (balance between high and pro) depending on the harsh conditions.
Roughly, assume 11GB will record close to 24hrs continuous recordings at max settings, though things vary a lot depending on your settings and environment.
Note that lower and cheaper cards work fine for lots of people. I have a TON of non-endurance 128GB cards in lots of my Wyze cams and have been recording continuously for YEARS with no problems. I’m just telling you what is the safest/best buy.
If you plan to use 24x7 recording, Samsung Pro Endurance have worked well for me, the Sandisk High Endurance should work well too but haven’t personally used those.
Agreed.
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Agreed too but only if they are older cards that were made with higher quality memory and sold for more money. The cheap cards sold now are not in the same league as the standard cards sold years ago.
You can find people who have tested some of the cheaper cards and found ones that have good endurance, but honestly when I looked, they were $1 or $2 cheaper than the endurance rated ones that have a 5 year warranty (and are actually rated for 15+ years of constant recording at the rate the wyze cams write at). I wasn’t going to nickel and dime over something like that.
The Wyze cards they try to convince you to buy are just rebadged middle of the road cards, I believe someone mentioned potentially the same cards that Lexar rebrands for themselves, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find they were PNY or even something like Adata.
I guess cheap is not a finite value.
I usually get a cheap Samsung, but with decent ratings.
Yeah I mean avoid cheap as in quality, not as in price. The Pro Endurance Samsung cards are usually $12 to $13 for 128GB. I consider that cheap, but high quality, especially given the 5 year “constant write” warranty.
I will say the Samsung Evo did not fare well for constant writes, I used one in a dash cam and it did not last long, where a standard (decent) Sandisk Pro, not rated for constant writes, has lasted many years, in two different cams. But those Sandisk Pro are probably 10 years old and were made with much better cells than modern cards too.
Since there is really no way to know what cells are in there or how good they are, I just look at the warranty. How many years and how many terabytes (when used in a constant write situation). That generally tells you how confident they are in the card.
I did the calculation for the 128GB pro endurance cards and it comes out to about 16 years of constant writes at the ~10MB/min that the 1080P cams write at. Warranty is for 5 years of constant writing at the full speed the card can handle (which is a lot higher than 10MB/min).
I had a 64GB Evo in a phone that stopped accepting writes, they very quickly sent a 128GB Pro replacement, so I’m also pretty confident in their support too.
I generally steer away from the Evo SD cards now (since I’ve had 2 fail). But the SSDs have been great, have used many of those with 0 issues, some well beyond their rated number of writes.
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That’s what I’m currently using, though not the 512 GB capacity; I have 256 GB microSD cards in all my Wyze cameras. Some still have SanDisk Extreme cards, but after doing some reading (including here in the Forum) I’ve been getting the SanDisk High Endurance cards for all of my most recently purchased cameras. I haven’t had either model of card fail, but my oldest Wyze camera is <2 years in continuous recording use at this time.
Most of my cameras use Sandisk Ultra cards (non-endurance) and are all going strong.
I just started getting endurance cards for all the new 2K cameras though because they often go on sale for about the same price as non-endurance cards anyway, so I just stock up when they are on sale. I’ll probably get more on Black Friday.
If the price is close to the same, might as well get endurance. 
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I think the extremes are what I have in my 10 year old dash cams, I don’t do a ton of driving but they’re going strong. I had a samsung evo in one and it did not last long at all.
So far the Samsung Pro Endurance are doing great in my Wyze cams. I don’t think you can go wrong either way.
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I’ve used those, too, but not in these cameras. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t use them in Wyze Cams, just that I haven’t. I recall reading about another Forum user trying a 512 GB SanDisk Ultra in a Cam OG to make sure that it would work but not leaving it in for an extended use trial.
I feel like the High Endurance cards are a better match for my application, and the price difference between those and the Ultra cards has been negligible (and what I’m seeing on Amazon right now shows them even less than the Extreme cards). The little extra peace of mind about the expected performance is worth it to me.
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Time for a maven throw down 
In reality, some swear by using Lexar cards, some say Adata work fine, but as you say, considering the price is the same if not less (you trade off some transfer rate, but you don’t need high transfer rate for these cams) why not get the ones they’ve put the better “binned” cells into and are backing with 5+ year warranties (which aren’t voided by constant writing).
The other challenge is the “extreme” from 10 years ago and the “extreme” from today aren’t the same quality necessarily. I don’t want to risk “YMMV”.
That being said I have two cams that just watch the inside of my doors and are motion trigger only, those just have 8GB generic cards in them (came with something else and weren’t of use for much else). It would be impossible to walk by those cams without having been caught on other cams (with endurance cards) on the way, they’re essentially just motion sensors when I’m away, and a motion activated light for when I forget to leave one on. And hey, if they happen to catch another angle of a burglar, great.
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