ORICO is a Chinese company founded in 2009 that specializes in storage and memory products. My first experience with them was in Amazon searches, where I primarily encountered their various hard drive enclosures.
These cards failed the criteria that I set out for determining what’s considered a name-brand card for one reason: the CID information. The manufacturer ID is set to fe, the OEM ID is set to 3432, and the product name is set to just SD. However, they don’t meet any of the criteria to be considered a knockoff, so they’ll be lumped in with the off-brand cards in my result set.
As of this writing, I’ve only tested a single card — so the discussion below will be based on the results of that one card.
This card came in better than average for price, but just barely: it came in at $0.224 per gigabyte, and the average (as of the time of this writing) is $0.245 per gigabyte. However, it came in worse than average in skimp: it came in at 2.29%, versus the average of 1.80% (for authentic cards).
Performance was not that great: measured performance was below average in 3 of the 4 categories. Sequential write speeds being the exception, and even those speeds were only a little above average. The package advertised read speeds of up to 100 MB/sec and write speeds of up to 50 MB/sec; it definitely didn’t get anywhere close to that.
These cards bear the Class 10, U3, V30, and A1 performance marks; measured performance was good enough for it to qualify for the Class 10, U3, and V30 marks, but not the A1 mark. However, I’ll give my standard disclaimer: my performance testing methods do not align with those prescribed by the SD Physical Layer Specification; it’s possible that this card would have done better had it been tested under proper conditions.
On the endurance testing front:
- Sample #1 has not yet hit the 2,000 read/write cycle mark. It is currently expected to get there sometime in December 2025.
- Samples #2 and #3 are still in the package, waiting to be tested.
December 5, 2025