Silicon Power Superior Pro microSDXC UHS-I Colorful U3 256GB Card Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2020-07-23

The Superior Pro microSDXC UHS-I Colorful card performs well and exceeds the rated write speed in some cases; this is good news regarding 4K recording at high bitrates, but also when using the card for program installs or other types of backups. The card can be bought with capacities of up to 512GB, so we should not worry about recording very long footage with our action cameras while on vacation or during workouts.

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Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel i7 9700K Retail

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

RAM: Patriot Memory Viper RGB Series DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3200MHz

Video: XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 RAW II Ultra

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master HAF 922


The Silicon Power Superior Pro UHS-I Colorful card comes formatted exFAT; we have used a Lexar UHS-II USB 3.0 card reader in order to perform the speed tests:

 

 

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:

 

 

 

Summary Graph (Read Performance)

 

To measure the real life performance, we have used the Total Commander application to copy to the card and from the card 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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