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MicroSD Benchmark

I've been poking around with carrying LivePCs on my cellphone now that I got a new Blackjack smartphone. I wanted to get the fastest possible flash card to make sure the performance was ideal. Unfortunately, I discovered that my phone only really supports USB 1.1 data rates when it acts as a mass storage device. Nonetheless, I bought 7 different microSD flash cards from different manufacturers and tested their performance using the ATTO disk benchmark. The peak transfer rate results are in.

Benchmark Results

The specific results graphs for the individual cards are also available:

Note: I used a Sandisk USB 2.0 microSD card reader to make these measurements.