ALUNX is a brand that I came across while browsing through microSD cards on AliExpress. I purchased this one…frankly…because I liked the card art that they used. What can I say? (Squirrel!)
This particular purchase almost had me filing a dispute with the seller on AliExpress — when it arrived, it looked like the seller only sent one card. On closer inspect, however, I could tell that the plastic on the front of the package was bowing a little — and when I opened it, I discovered that the seller had actually stuffed three cards into one package. Clever.
As of the time of this writing, I’ve only started testing a single sample. I was delighted to see that it wasn’t fake flash, and that sequential read and sequential write scores were above average; however, I was disappointed to see that random read/write scores were below average.
This card bears no performance marks. (There is something on the card that looks vaguely like a Class 6 mark — but on closer inspection, I think that’s just part of the card artwork.) The Class 10 mark appears on the package, and all performance measurements were good enough to qualify for this mark.
On the endurance testing front:
- Sample #1’s first error was a write failure, affecting 64 contiguous sectors, during round 32. It has survived 299 read/write cycles in total so far.
- Samples #2 and #3 are still in the package, waiting to be tested.
June 21, 2025 (current number of read/write cycles updates automatically every hour)