Kingston introduced its 128GB Class 10 UHS-I Speed Class 1 (U1) microSD for smartphones and
tablets last year. Since this is a class 10 Card, it promises a minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/s.
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The company doesn’t reveal maximum read and write speed, but we will test out both the read
and write speed of the card. How good is the card? Let us find out in the complete review.
Several top-end and mid-range smartphones now support 128GB microSD cards. Even low-end
Lumia devices support 128GB cards, according to Microsoft. We tested this card from the top-end
Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge, HTC One M8 to mid-range Samsung Galaxy A5, Galaxy A3 and several
other smartphones, which worked fine without any issues. We also tried it on the Moto G (2nd
Gen), but it did not work since it supports microSD card only up to 32GB.
Here are some benchmarks to show how this card performs.
Read/Write speed test using.
CrystalDiskMark x64 – USB 3.0
Read/Write speed test using CrystalDiskMark x64 – USB 2.0
Sequential read speed was around 87 MB/s and write speed was around 30 MB/s in the
CrystalDiskMark benchmark using USB 3.0. Using 2.0 you get sequential read speed of 35 MB/s
and write speed of about 23 MB/s. As you can see, you get 118GB of usable space in the 128GB
card.
Read Speed measured using HD Tach – USB 3.0
Read Speed measured using HD Tach – USB 2.0
Read speed was steady at 80 MB/s using USB 3.0 in HD Tach. Using USB 2.0 connection, it was
steady at 35 MB/s. Both these tests make it clear that using a card reader with USB 3.0 support
lets you transfer data faster between your PC and the card. Data transfer speed will be different
when you are using it in a smartphone. Let us check the transfer speed of the card in a phone.
Read and Write speed using A1 SD Bench for Android
The read speed was around 53.9 MB/s and the write speed was around 10 MB/s with the A1 SD
Bench app for Android. Some testing apps like SD tools and SD Card Tester did not work and
showed errors, hence we could not test the speed using those apps.
Conclusion
The Kingston 128GB Class 10 microSD XC card offered impressive and steady write speed and
read speed for a UHS-I U1. We have come a long way in expansion memory. Few years back
512MB and 1GB cards were the top-en, now we have 128GB cards. Since we now have
smartphones that is capable of recording 4K videos, which takes of several GBs of space for a
few minute video, having a 128GB card handy lets you store several hours of 4K videos. Having a
memory card slot in your smartphone is always useful if you play more games in your smartphone
or store a lot of media content, and if it supports 128GB microSD cards, it would be even better.
Main thing you should notice about the 128GB cards is the compatibility. Check the official
smartphone or tablet maker’s website to find out if your device supports 128GB cards. Even
though most latest mid to high-end devices do, some smartphones only supports maximum 32GB
or 64GB cards. The Kingston 128GB SD card is available for $99.99 in the U.S. Kingston also introduced high capacity UHS-I
U3 microSDXC cards few months back. We will be reviewing the Kingston 64GB UHS-I U3
microSDXC card soon, which offers 90MB/s read and 80MB/s write speed.
Wow. So fast. My 32gb EVO Samsung microsd is already OLD
Nice
Hahah
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Nice review ! ??
Thank you for reading!
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Currently have a Class 4 card, would a Class 8 card give any speed increase? Does it really pay off to upgrade to a higher class card?
my english that bad or does nobody have a answer?
would a upgrade to class 6 make any difference? (8gb sdhc class 4 to 8gb sdhc class 8)
eppoeh said:
my english that bad or does nobody have a answer?
would a upgrade to class 6 make any difference? (8gb sdhc class 4 to 8gb sdhc class 8)
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Normaly it would be faster a class 8 but the artemis will not be any faster. It will not get the max speed of the card.
exactly speed might be a point for digital camera or sdhc card reader, not for PDA. Same for example as with mine 4GB SD 150x in Universal - no diff. in transfer rates between 66x SDcard and 150x. There is max. transfer rate of the mboard - i doubt it can be oveclocked. So if U dont need to transfer helluva lot of datas on daily basis thru SDHC card reader.....better to save some money for beer
krijger said:
Normaly it would be faster a class 8 but the artemis will not be any faster. It will not get the max speed of the card.
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That was almost the answer i'm looking for
krijger said:
in transfer rates between 66x SDcard and 150x
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Now i'm confused... max throughput of pda = 150x? then i should get a card that can handle that speed, right?
IOW: What is the max throughput of the phone?
I was speaking about classic SD cards (transfer rates are as multiple of ??default speed??) But there is no change in data throughput in device (and same with SDHC) simply transfer speeds are exactly same w/o connection to class or speed of the card in PDA-other thing is card reader. As i wrote above - if u dont need to transfer large amounts of data from PC... no need to have class8
the 8G sandisk card apparently dosnt read as fast as lower class devices. but as someone said the phone isnt at top speed like its wifi being 11mb b not G.
I have a Sandisk 8Gb microSDHC Class 4 in my Artemis ( WM6 touchflo 4 cube ROM) I store all my non ROM programs & files from the card & all video etc is of course stored on the card.
Cant say I noticed any lag vs smaller 2Gb Sandisk microSD card. I tried loading video on Device Memory to see if it played better & it didnt .
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Kingston micro SD HC 4 GB
I've purchased a Kingston micro SD HC 4 GB, but it doesn´t work in my HTC P3300 Artemis.
I would be grateful if you want to help me.
XLOOX said:
I have a Sandisk 8Gb microSDHC Class 4 in my Artemis ( WM6 touchflo 4 cube ROM) I store all my non ROM programs & files from the card & all video etc is of course stored on the card.
Cant say I noticed any lag vs smaller 2Gb Sandisk microSD card. I tried loading video on Device Memory to see if it played better & it didnt .
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Hi, I have a HTC P3300 with Windows Mobile 5 installed. I bought a Trascend microSDHC 8 Gb Card but the system doesn't recognize it. Do you know how could it work?
Thanks in advance.
Artemis,
My Sandisk MicroSDHC 4GB class 8 slower than normal 2GB MicroSD card.
kakà_ricardo said:
Hi, I have a HTC P3300 with Windows Mobile 5 installed. I bought a Trascend microSDHC 8 Gb Card but the system doesn't recognize it. Do you know how could it work?
Thanks in advance.
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the original p330 don't read the micro SDHD only the SD type. You have to install a cab that enable the p3300 to read the SDHD, then soft reset. I do in mine and all works fine
Use a tool to format your storage card properly, that increases the speed a lot more. 66x card should be fast enough.
Change the cluster size from 512 Bytes to 4 KB or higher. Note that you will lose free space because every file is at least 4 KB big, even if it's just 1 byte in size.
If you don't have lots of small files this is a good option. My card is now three times faster but I lost about 1 GB of free space.
I recently bought a genuine class 10 Kingston 16GB microSDHC card to replace my class 4 Kingston 16GB microSDHC for my HTC Desire GSM. I have a freshly installed LeeDroid v2.4.1 ROM with S-Off. I did a full wipe/factory reset/format before installing LeeDroid. I created a 15GB FAT32 partition and a 1GB EXT3 partition on both cards for using A2SD+. After comparing both cards (while in my HTC Desire) with 2 benchmark apps from the Market, AnTutu System Benchmark and SD Tools, I'm having some problems.
The problem is that the write performance is almost the same on both the microSDHC cards, around +/- 5 MB/sec. Installing the SD Speed Boost app didn't help in improving the write performance. According to the microSDHC specification I should have at least around +/- 10MB/sec write performance with a class 10 microSDHC card.
I searched a bit here on XDA, and I'm reading some conflicting things. Some say that the HTC Desire supports only up to class 6 microSDHC cards, while others say that the brand new class 10 card they bought on eBay gave them a massive performance boost with max write performance. Also I'm reading that having multiple partitions on a microSDHC card has a negative impact on write performance. Is this true?
Anybody have any suggestions or ideas?
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I have no idea and no suggestions sorry , and I agree with you, everything is strange with writing speed. I think that the "class" is bull**** from my point of view.
Just see my "class 4" card tested with SD tools:
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I have a S-ON Desire with Oxygen 2.0.3, and "class 4" 8Go card with a first Fat32 partition (=6.5GGo) and a second partition Ext4 (1Go) ...
I have a class 10 too... but I think Desire's SD handler is the real bottleneck. Did you try and test your SDs on a USB2.0 card reader attached to your computer? You should see the difference among the two.
I just testes my SD performance with SD Tools and I got 8MBs write and 23.5MBs read with a class 2 card. People tend to say that class 6 is better than class 10, in most cases anyway.
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wierd isnt it?
16mb writing speed and 8mb reading speed ... thats class 4 kingston card.
not rooted,
Writing speed > reading speed ????
Kingston 4gb class 4 gives me over 8mbps write. ;-) better than Samsung plus class 6.
Also, after some testing I came to conclusion that smaller the size, the faster it is.
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probably, my card is 4gb btw if you were wondering why i had such high writing and reading speed
I recently bought an USB 2.0 card reader from Sitecom, but that one broke down on me before I could test the microSDHC cards. The first few days it worked fine, but now it won't recognize any cards anymore...
The results you guys posted really surprised me, such wide variation in performance. Yesterday I called HTC Netherlands and asked them if there are any limitations or restrictions on the HTC Desire regarding the max supported class cards. They couldn't give me an answer straight away (they said I was the first person to ask this question... ), but they are going to do some research regarding this and report back to me. As soon as I get an answer I will post it here.
For now I'm at a loss. The smaller the card the faster it's speed under the same class sounds logical. Also I'm thinking that certain brands might be more compatible or incompatible with the HTC Desire. After researching it some more, I came across some information about people saying that Kingston isn't the best brand to choose for the HTC Desire.
For those who are curious..... HTC Netherlands called me back, after some research at there end they could tell me that the HTC Desire supports up to class 6 microSDHC cards. They also mentioned that some brands are better then other brands when used in there smartphones, although they didn't provide any specific brands.
I'm wanting to get a new memory card, preferably 32gb but I'm unsure which company to go for.
So it'll be helpful if you could benchmark your own memory cards with SDTools and also include class and manufacturer ( I find that different benchmark apps produce different results)
Without SD-Booster (Which btw is very effective)
Currently mine is a Samsung 16GB Micro SDHC Card - Class 10
Write : 12.3MB/s
Read : 21.5MB/s
Was messing around with the SD-Booster, and my read speed now is 28.5MB/s at 4096kb cache
SevenD2 said:
Even though in the OP I state don't use SD-Booster I've found out that different ROMS use different default Caches
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Use Cache 1024mb for fair testing
SevenD2 said:
I'm wanting to get a new memory card, preferably 32gb but I'm unsure which company to go for.
So it'll be helpful if you could benchmark your own memory cards with SDTools and also include class and manufacturer ( I find that different benchmark apps produce different results)
Without SD-Booster (Which btw is very effective)
Currently mine is a Samsung 16GB Micro SDHC Card - Class 10
Write : 12.3MB/s
Read : 21.5MB/s
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I am running with a Samsung 32GB Micro SCHC Card - Class 10
the benchmark would be like the 16GB you have. with SD-Speed Increase it is even a little better (I think, haven't tested it). I can recommend the 32GB Class 10, so far great speed and no complaints =)
Patriot 32GB Class 10:
Write: 8-10MB/s according to the app, when I copy stuff from my pc to the phone it goes to 13.7MB/s or even more with big files
Read: 16-28MB/s according to thr app
But there are ~27.5GB data on it which might slow things down a bit
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Here are the results of my 2-year-old SD Card, a Transcend 8GB Class 6:
Write: 8.2 MB/s
Read: 17 MB/s
I am very pleased with it. My next one though will be this one, the 32GB one:
http://www.sandisk.com/products/mob...crosdhc-and-microsdxc-uhs-i-cards-for-android
Transcend 16GB class 4 (2011)
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mustang 32 gb clas 10
write: 13MB/S
read:17.4 MB/S
Kingston 16gb class 10
7,8mb/s write
21,9mb/s read
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Trandscend 32GB class 10
W = around 10, sometimes 9, sometimes 11
R = minimal 20, sometimes can 28
Samsung Plus Extreme 8GB Class 10
Write 11.2MB/s
Read 18.8MB/s
Samsung Mobile Ultra 16GB
Write: 13.7
Read: 27.5
3072 cache size
Verbatim 16GB Class10. SD-Booster cache set to 8192
Samsung 32 GB Class 10
Write 9,2MB/s
Read 27,5 MB/s
SD-Booster at 2048
Samsung class 2 16GB
Read: 8 MB/s
Write: 20 MB/s
PS: Without SD Booster
Sandisk Ultra Mobile class 10 32gb
SD-Booster at 4096
Even though in the OP I state don't use SD-Booster I've found out that different ROMS use different default Caches
Se arc s stock 4.0.4
Transcend Class 4 32GB
Arc with stock sd card 8 GB class 4
writing
8.6 MB/s
Reading
13.7 MB/s
on cache of 256 kb ..
any body help me where to buy class 10 sd card in india?
SanDisk Ultra microSDHC/microSDXC UHS-I Class 10
Write = 14,3 Mb/s
Read = 21,1 Mb/s
Hmm Quite Good
Strontium 16GB Class 10
I have there class 10 32 GB SDHC cards - one from my old t-bolt the one in my gfs SG II and the one in my note.
I ran a bench on my PNY and sure enough it did not come near class 10.
So I got all three togehter - backed them up - did a full fat 32 format (not quick) on win 7 and tested all three. On the pc and in the note -
PC Via ATTO
Note via antutu
Of the three brands I had Lexar, PNY and Sandisk - all three supposed to be class 10.
Only the lexar - which was sitting in my unused t-bolt - actually ran class 10 posting 13.6 MB/s writes and 22 MB/s reads..
The others not so much - both the Sandisk and PNY barely managed class 6 writes....
makes me happy for having a 32gb lexar class 10 card then
Just got a sandisk uhs-1 32GB not any faster than my class 10. dissapointed again.
glenroebuck said:
Just got a sandisk uhs-1 32GB not any faster than my class 10. dissapointed again.
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UHS-1 = Class 10
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UHS-1 = Class 10
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that is not true at all - uhs-1 is 50-70 mb/s in uhs-1 supported devices which Samsung has said the note does support.
testing some more - added in samsung class 6 16 gb I got cheap at microcenter on sale.
Ummm. wow. The class 6 samsung runs as fast as any class 10 or uhs-1 I have tested. Faster in fact than everything but the lexar. Just shy of 11 mb/sec writes in my note and 27.1 mb reads - fast enough for hd video recording. I may order a class 10 sammy to see what it can do!
just ran it through Crystal Disk Mark - here is the results - again this is a cheaper class 6 card
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in comparison 32gb UHS-1
Can anyone recommend a similar program for Linux, or even an Android app?
I've tried using dd, with various sync options, but get inconsistent results.
thanks much indeed...
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Can anyone recommend a similar program for Linux, or even an Android app?
I've tried using dd, with various sync options, but get inconsistent results.
thanks much indeed...
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Antutu benchmark has a built in file read/write test.
On antutu my n7000 gets I think 10Mb/sec write and 22MB/sec reads
My 2.5 year old class 6 16GB uSD card gets 4.5MB writes and 14MB reads in the note.
sd tools from the market as well will test your sd card. I do a full format before I test though. Framentation and data can affect your results.
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UHS-1 = Class 10
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Why make it so confusing
why not just write class 10 on card ???
ilordvader said:
Why make it so confusing
why not just write class 10 on card ???
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Because it's not true: UHS-1 does not equate to Class 10.
On a device that supports UHS-1, it will be very much faster than Class 10.
On a device that does not support UHS, it won't.
Well when it first came out (the tab s 8.4) only 128gb micro SD cards were the largest available.
So my question, can we assume that any micro SD XC 1 card will work fine in this tablet?
I ask because I stumbled upon this 200GB card now available.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-micro..._UL160_SR160,160_&refRID=00EQDPJ5PMBTHB0A266Q
Or is this tabs card slot locked some how to only except up to 128GB max?
If the Tabs S works with XC 1 cards have an 128gb one and it works fine, I suppose an 200gb that is XC 1 should work as well as an guess.
John.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
If the Tabs S works with XC 1 cards have an 128gb one and it works fine, I suppose an 200gb that is XC 1 should work as well as an guess.
John.
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Can anyone recommend a card with decent speed?
I'm using Sandisk 32 GB and the transfer speed sucks... avg around 10mb/s when transfering files from my tablet to PC via USB cable.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-MicroSDHC-Memory-Card-Frustration-Free/dp/B00422GXXA
Get the biggest card you can afford, a 64gb or 128gb, I only ever buy Samsung flash cards for years for my camera`s phones and tablets, I all do a exhaustive error test when i get them and i have never found an error or had one fail, So i don't have any experience of other brands but Sandisk is a good brand.
I just bought an Samsung 128GB Evo+ the other day for £36 and i am just about finishing the error testing, It is showing a write speed of 20.46mb/s and a read speed of 63.56mb/s these are just basic number using an USB 3.0 card reader on my notebook, I have an crystal disk mark test results if you want to see them.
My T800 10.5" has formated my Samsung 128GB EVO+ as ExFat file system, benchmarks should really be run with the card in your Tab S for real world results.
John.
Thanks! Time to test out Samsung sd cards then.
Highly recommended Samsung evo cards. Its all I use now. Good value for money.
A few speed test reviews on Amazon say the Samsung 128GB EVO+ is not very good as the 4K file write speed is very low, But i dont write anything that small, even ebook files or mp3 files are hundreds of mb/s
Below are benchmark run on my Notebook using an USB 3.0 card reader.
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I will post a couple of benchmarks with the Samsung 128GB EVO+ in my T800 EDIT: Write speed seems to be limited to 34mb/s i wonder if this af fast as the card reader can go, as other tests have show tha same slow read speed
John.
I personally never had any issues with Sandisk. I have really old Sandisk cards laying around (64mb) and they still work fine.
I'm actually scared to try a different brand with the good luck I have had with Sandisk.
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Can anyone recommend a card with decent speed?
I'm using Sandisk 32 GB and the transfer speed sucks... avg around 10mb/s when transfering files from my tablet to PC via USB cable.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-MicroSDHC-Memory-Card-Frustration-Free/dp/B00422GXXA
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I am in the US but this is what I am using now. The 32gig one. Go with the biggest you can afford to be honest. Make sure its class 10. Always buy from an official Sandisk seller on Amazon to avoid fakes.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-And...e=UTF8&qid=1450909963&sr=1-2&keywords=sandisk