MicroSD is the wild west of storage, so keep your wits about you.

The box above shows live card prices for your marketplace. Use it as your sanity check against the dodgy listings.

Why microSD costs a fortune per TB

Let me set expectations before you faint at the numbers.

MicroSD is the priciest storage you can buy per terabyte. Full stop.

You are paying for tiny size, ruggedness and convenience, not bulk value. That is fine when you need a card for a camera, a phone, a dash cam or a handheld. It is madness if you are trying to store a movie library.

Right tool, right job.

The fake card minefield

Here is the one that catches people out.

A 2TB card for the price of a sandwich is not a miracle. It is a scam.

Counterfeit high capacity cards are everywhere. They report a fake size to your device, then quietly eat your photos when they overflow. Buy from sellers with a real track record, and if the price looks impossible, it is.

The live data above helps you spot what a real card actually costs, so the fakes stick out like a sore thumb.

The card questions worth answering

This hub feeds a stack of Reddit style answer pages backed by the live prices you see above. Photographers, handheld gamers and dash cam owners keep asking the same things, so we answered them with real numbers insted of guesswork.

Scroll down for the popular questions, and set the marketplace selector up top to your country first.