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27 Card Readers Roundup (page 17)

Category: Multimedia

by Aleksey Meyev

[ 03/23/2008 | 11:11 AM ]

FC-Test 1.0

Other read diagrams:

• 1x100MB (chart)
• 100x1MB (chart)

The slow controllers are slow in FC-Test, too. First place goes to the GL819 with firmware 93.21. It is followed by the AU6332 and AU6333 that have had good results in IOMeter.

Other write diagrams:

• 1x100MB (chart)
• 100x1MB (chart)

As opposed to reading, every fast drive copes with writing well enough. The “slow” chips are again very slow.

FC-Test 2.0

Other read diagrams:

• 1x100MB (chart)
• 100x1MB (chart)

Other write diagrams:

• 1x100MB (chart)
• 100x1MB (chart)

The second version of the test doesn’t have anything new to tell us except that the AU6333 has a surprisingly low result (in comparison with the leaders).

Performance with MMC Cards Summary

So, MMC provides almost the same speed as SD. But as opposed to SDHC, this format is supported by all card-readers. MMC is somewhat faster at reading but slower at writing. The leader of this section is the GL819 controller with firmware 93.21. The winners of the previous sections performed fast enough, too.

Finally, I’ll discuss the fastest variety of Memory Stick format – Memory Stick Pro Duo.