What brand of Sd Card has the better reputation?
This would be for the V4 so going with 512GB.
I have Samsung Pro Endurance 256GB cards in my V4 cams and 128GB in my V3 cams and they have been working great for continuous recording for a long time. Samsung does not make a 512GB Pro endurance card. They do make 512GB cards but the are not designed for continuous recording like the Pro Endurance. Maybe SanDisk has something. The Samsung 256GB has life up to 140,000 hours.
I think you will be fine with any name brand High Endurance cards. I like SanDisk. My oldest card has been recording Continuously for over 3 years. I bought 32GB cards because I also use them to manually flash Wyze camera firmware.
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Picked up a couple 512GB and one 256GB
of the SanDisk 512GB High Endurance microSDXC Card
Incidentally, Alexa told me a few days ago about a special on SanDisk 512 GB High Endurance cards. As of the time of this writing, Amazon still shows it as a “Limited time deal” with a price of $37.89. I have no idea when the time expires on that.
I’ve been using 256 GB SanDisk High Endurance cards in my cameras, including the Cam v4s, for whatever that’s worth.
I mostly use SanDisk because it’s the best for the price, but Samsung is definitely the quality king.
Also, you should generally get those rated as high endurance since they are made for smart cameras to record constantly and other cards aren’t.
Already been answered but I’ve used both the Samsung and Sandisk and both are good, can’t really go wrong either way. The Sandisk are currently cheaper, but they trade places from time to time.
Just always make sure you buy from a reputable source. If using Amazon, make sure it says “sold by amazon” and when you get it, it doesn’t have the white sticker with barcode that denotes it came from a 3rd party, as sometimes even when sold by amazon they send a 3rd party supplied one (they mix their inventory sometimes).
Samsung has a utility to validate the card is genuine. With Sandisk, you can either do a full overwrite format or write a lot to the card to confirm it is actually the capacity it says it is. But as long as it comes from a reputable seller, you should be 99% sure that it is legit.
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Good point. For those who don’t know, there are a lot of fakes/scams out there for SD cards. For example, some of the “SanDisk” items on Groupon for really cheap are scams as are lots of other places. Some scammers will even take the cover off the original disk, and replace a fake or cheaper one inside of it then put it back in the same packaging, so everything looks like the real product, but it will fail on you quickly or not hold the correct amount of storage even though it seems to say it holds that much. From all appearances it seems to be the real thing, because everything but the insides ARE the real thing. This is why you cannot order SD cards from a 3rd party. You make it highly likely you’ll get scammed.
So…nobody’s recommending the SANSUMG cards? That’s a shame. 
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I mean, maybe they at least get props for being a semi-honest scam by changing the letters and technically being a different company. 
They’re trying to make money by tricking people, which is dishonest, but they technically didn’t claim to be Samsung or replace real cases and packaging with fake internals…so… From a certain legal point of view they might not be doing anything technically illegal like the others. Hard to say for certain though.
I think I once had a pair of folding Ferarri (not Ferrari) sunglasses. Similar thing. 
I purposely bought some “F-Oakley” (Fake Oakley or Faux-kley) sunglasses because they look just as awesome for a way cheaper price. They were a bigger thing when I was growing up, and I loved them then, but the ones I bought more recently still LOOKED awesome, but hurt my head because the size was a little too small and the [non-US] company didn’t have any size options, so I gave up. I don’t like most sunglasses and I will never pay Oakley prices, so I just don’t wear any despite liking them.
I might get some at some point when there are more AR options that aren’t Facebook oriented. That could convince me to pay [above] Oakley prices.
Sometimes I like fake brands. I don’t have much brand loyalty, so if another company can make something that looks nice, functions nice but is cheaper, then they have my attention. Part of the reason I like Wyze so much. Low profit margins at a great price for a lot of features. Works great for me too. That doesn’t mean I don’t always want MORE improvements from them, but I am usually pretty satisfied with what I get even if they never do any improvements from how it was when I bought it and knew what I was getting when I made my original purchase. Then any future things added are just bonsues.
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I had Foakleys too many years ago. In that case, they work fine, are semi-close to the originals, and much cheaper. But if they were 1/10 the size they were supposed to be, that would be an issue.
Knockoffs are fine for some things, but not for SD cards, especially when many of the knockoffs are all out fake scams.
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Thanks for tip.
Have a vacation coming up and debating about a GoPro or Action 5 camera. 
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In-laws bought some AA batteries in a general store on a road trip. The batteries were DURASELL.
Same length but smaller diameter.
Got a bunch of free battery coupons from Duracell after I sent the counterfeit batteries, in-laws couldn’t remember where they bought them.