The testbench was composed from the following hardware:
CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 2 360mm AIO
Motherboard: EVGA Z690 CLASSIFIED 2.06 UEFI
RAM: Sabrent Rocket 32GB (2x16GB) 4800MHz DDR5
Video: PowerColor Radeon 5700 8GB
Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W
SSD: Sabrent Rocket Q4 NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 2TB
Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840
The EXCERIA HIGH ENDURANCE 512GB microSDXC Memory Card comes formatted exFAT; we have used a LEXAR UHS-II microSD/microSDXC Card Reader in order to perform the speed tests and formatted it NTFS:
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)
We have performed some other tests with tools we usually run during SSD reviews: