Test: Sandisk Cruzer vs Patriot SuperSonic

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So, I've been using the Sandisk Cruzer 32GB for a while now.

Only recently did I found out that it outputs an unbelievably low 3MB/s Write.

For that reason, I decided to look for a USB 3.0 drive to replace it.

I found the Patriot Supersonic. Advertised Write of 70MB/s. Quite a leap.

So, here are the drives side by side:

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Looks good. Would you be willing to throw it into a USB 2 port and show us that result?
 
bleomycin said:
Excellent, thank you for the info. Much faster than my SuperTalent RC8 32GB, the first one died within the first month, rma took FOREVER and the current one is pretty damn slow :/

This is on USB3:
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On the other hand, those are some wicked 512k and 4k scores. I thought only SSDs with tremendous cache could have some bandwidth in those sectors.

But yeah, if you only need it for transferring files, like me, the Patriot is the best choice.
 
I now see that SanDisk has gone downhill in at least write speed performance over the past year and a half, at least with its lower-priced stuff:

The two SD cards (both the plain SanDisk and the SanDisk Ultra) that I purchased within the past year both deliver significantly slower write speeds than their immediate predecessors - the plain SanDisk SD card could not even reach 5 MB/s despite its Class (4) rating, while the SanDisk Ultra barely surpassed 7 MB/s even with its Class (6) rating. Their immediate predecessors, which were Class (2) and Class (4), respectively, wrote at 8 MB/s and 13 MB/s, respectively.

The same thing is occurring with the SanDisk Cruser flash drives: My 4GB "U3" model (which was nearly three years old) wrote at 8.4 MB/s while the current version (with the red switch) barely reached 5 MB/s.
 
I don't know.

I bought a 64GB Class 10 card about a year and a half ago, and it usually writes at the advertised 15MB/s.

I have an 8GB 30MB/s card.. I guess I could check to see whether it actually does write at 30MB/s..
 
Trackr said:
I have an 8GB 30MB/s card.. I guess I could check to see whether it actually does write at 30MB/s..
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If it's an SDHC card of that speed, if you don't have a special SanDisk ImageMate Multi-Card (the recently discontinued small black box-type device) for earlier pre-UHS versions or a reader that supports UHS for the current UHS version, you will not see transfer rates faster than 20 MB/s even for reads.
 
E4g1e said:
SDXC only applies to those cards with capacities greater than 32GB. Almost everything from 4GB to 32GB is considered SDHC.
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Well, at least my T2i can take full advantage of the 30MB/s.
 
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