Strontium Nitro 566X SDXC UHS-1 Card and Nitro 466X Micro SDHC UHS-1 Card Review

SPECIFICATIONS

Currently, Strontium only has one product line of SD Card flash storage. If you’re looking for the SDXC technology, then the 64GB model will be your product of choice, but Strontium also offers 16 and 32GB SDHC cards to round off their product line. The Strontium Nitro 566X SDXC card has a Class 10 rating, and the 566X speed rating translates into 85MB/s read speed. It is also rated for speed at UHS-1 and has the capability of fast continuous shooting and recording of 1080p HD video for long durations. Strontium notes that with 64GB of storage capacity, the card can hold 16,000 MP3 songs, 26,208 5MP images, 352 hours of MPEG-4 video, or 960 minutes of full HD video.

Strontium has a three tier product line for their Micro SD flash storage: Class 4 rating (8GB capacity), Class 6 rating (16 and 32GB capacities) and Class 10 rating with UHS-1 speeds (16, 32 and 64GB capacities). Again, if you are looking for Micro SDXC, then the 64GB Micro SD card will be your only option. Strontium has guaranteed that the read speeds of the Micro SDHC UHS-1 32GB card will reach 70MB/s, which is an acceptable target with a Class 10 rating and UHS-1 technology.

TECHNOLOGY X TESTING PROTOCOL

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SYSTEM COMPONENTS

KINGSTON MOBILELITE G3 CARD READER

We recruited the help of the Kingston Mobilelite G3 card reader, I encourage you to check out our review of the card reader here. The Kingston Mobilelite is a versatile card reader as it supports SD/SDHC/SDXC, Micro SD/SDHC/SDXC and MSPD. It also features USB 3.0 connectivity, and is backwards compatible to USB 2.0.

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.47

ATTO Disk Benchmark is a relatively easy-to-use benchmark tool, which happens to be the benchmark of choice for many manufacturers. ATTO uses compressible data rather than random data, which results in higher performance and thus, higher benchmark scores. In our testing, we have selected the transfer size to range from 0.5KB to 8192KB, and have set the total length of the test to be 256MB.

First up, the Strontium Nitro 566X SDXC 64GB card. As we can see below, the SD card returns read speeds of 94.8 MB/s, which is almost 10 MB/s faster than the speeds listed, and also has write speeds of an impressive 63 MB/s.

Next is the Strontium Nitro 466X Micro SDHC 32GB card. As we can see below, the Micro SD card returns read speeds of 90 MB/s which is 20 MB/s faster than the speeds listed, and also has write speeds of an impressive 23.5 MB/s.