Toshiba EXCERIA M301-EA 128GB microSDXC Card Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2016-03-06

The M301-EA series is another mainstream storage solution for people which need to record precious moments with their smartphone or digital camera, but also for recording Full-HD content without the need of deleting previous content thanks to the 64GB and 128GB large capacities. The card performances are very similar to the N301 and the product is backed by a 5-year warranty.

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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 M301-EA 128GB microSDXC Card comes formatted exFAT:

 

 

As before with the N301, we have observed 16MB of unallocated space:

 

 

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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