The testbench was composed from the following hardware:
CPU: Intel I7 Retail @ stock
Motherboard: Foxconn BloodRage with G42 BIOS
RAM: 3x2GB Patriot PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz
Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.
Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 & Patriot TorqX 64GB SSD
Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling
OS: Windows 8
ASUS U3S6
USB 3.0 Card Reader
The Silicon Power 32GB microSDHC UHS-1 Flash Card comes formatted FAT32:
To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:
HD Tune File Benchmark
Summary Graph (Read Performance)
To measure the real life performance, I have used the Total Commander application to copy to the flash drive and from the flash drive the same file and recorded the transfer speeds, when they have stabilized.
File Copy
File Read
Summary Graph (Real-life performance)