Toshiba EXCERIA PRO M401 64GB microSDXC Card Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2016-03-07

The EXCERIA PRO M401 from Toshiba has left us with a very good impression regarding its performance, not only matching the rated speeds (and even exceeding the read one) but also succeeding to beat our previous Silicon Power 32GB SDXC card. While the speedy PRO M401 does not have a 128GB variant we can find it with 64GB, 32GB and 16GB capacities, all bundled with the data recovery solution from LC Technology.

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Packaging, A Closer Look

The latest card we are going to look at from Toshiba is also a microSDXC model but this time a high-performance one supporting UHS speed class 3 instead of 1. It is no surprise that the packaging model is similar to the last two products, showing us the rated read (and now also write) speeds; Toshiba also steps up and recommends this card for 4K video recording too:

 

 

 

On the back side we will get to see that this product is backed by a 5-year warranty from the manufacturer, the approximate usable capacity in multiple languages, but also a SDHC & SDXC compatibility notice:

 

 

 

Besides the actual product along with the SD adapter which are held in a separate compartment, we will also receive one small leaflet with a code which activates the LC Technology Data Recovery Software; the down side is the fact that the software will be valid for only one year from the day we activate the key and download the data recovery software:

 

 

 

 

Let’s remove the products from the plastic enclosure and take a closer look:

 

 

 

If we do a quick check, we will get to see that the SD adapter does sport the same code name as the one we have received along with the M301-EA product:

 

 

 

 

A locking mechanism is available for setting the data in read-only mode:

 

 

 

Unlike the N301 and M301-EA, the M401 does feature an all-white background on the frontal side, while the product logo, supported standards and storage capacity are written with grey accents; the product logo is, though, black:

 

 

 

On the back side we will spot again the eight gold-plated contacts along with a small sticker with product serial numbers:

 

 

 

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