toprammin said: gti said: Get Samsung micro SD card from Fry's. Class 6 cards usually on sale for about $20. Fastest small block random write speed I have seen; beats Sandisk card.
Are you advising people that require a class 10 card to buy a class 6 card instead? I will let my 50MB and 1000MB test result of my "Class 6" Samsung 32GB card speaks for itself. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2012 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 21.370 MB/s Sequential Write : 17.312 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 20.672 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 16.684 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 7.146 MB/s [ 1744.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 2.866 MB/s [ 699.6 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 9.732 MB/s [ 2376.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.944 MB/s [ 718.8 IOPS] Test : 50 MB [D: 0.0% (0.0/29.3 GB)] (x5) Date : 2013/02/25 22:15:09 OS : Windows 7 Enterprise Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2012 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 21.524 MB/s Sequential Write : 17.603 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 21.249 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 15.725 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 6.052 MB/s [ 1477.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.272 MB/s [ 310.6 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 6.635 MB/s [ 1619.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.362 MB/s [ 332.5 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [D: 0.0% (0.0/29.3 GB)] (x5) Date : 2013/02/25 21:50:18 OS : Windows 7 Enterprise Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64) (P.S. If you plan to use the card for phone/tablet's app use ... you want the fastest 4KB random write speed you can get. ) |