Toshiba EXCERIA N301 64GB SDXC Card Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2016-02-23

With a read speed over 45MB/s and writes well over the Class 10 standard, we can say that the EXCERIA N301 is a good choice when used along a wide range of photo cameras but also Full-HD video cameras. It is protected against X-rays which can be found at airport security checks for frequent travelers but is also backed by a 5-year warranty from Toshiba.

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Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I5 4690K Retail @ stock

Motherboard: BIOSTAR GAMING Z97X

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 4x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: OCZ Vertex 4 240GB SSD

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64


The Toshiba Exceria N301 64GB SDXC Card comes formatted exFAT:

 

With this particular model we have spotted a strange partitioning model:

 

 

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)

 

 

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