Usage & Testing
I have been using the Patriot LX Series 256GB MicroSD Card with my GoPro Hero 5 and I haven’t encountered any issues. I have also used it with my Sony a6300 shooting 4K video and it was easily able to keep up.
Using the adapter I went ahead and plugged the SD card into the SD card slot in my laptop. It just popped right up and I was able to access my files. We will be running three different benchmarks as well as a real-time test to see just how fast the card is. We will be directly comparing against the Kingston Action Camera microSD Card. All numbers in these graphs are MB/s.
As you can see we have very good results here. Our final test is transferring four 4K movie files to and from the card.
To The Card (Write):
From the Card (Read):
https://thinkcomputers.org/kingston-action-camera-microsd-card-review/2/
referring to the previous test results. Slightly different than reported here. “CrystalDiskMark” was run default, 5x. Assuming that this was run the same way here?
Personally, running this same test on the same storage unit (DD, SSD flash memory), the results vary, every 5x test. Your own tests here, independent of the bench-tests, seems to indicate that only real-world usage is the true guide. Both brands are equal.
There are much faster flash storage options. Especially for USB 3.0 & USB 3.1. Those of us who run computer operating systems, totally from the USB flash drive – might prefer these faster options, if our USB port hardware could handle the higher speeds.