microSD Card Write speed goes down to 512 KB/s


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bits
       #1

    microSD Card Write speed goes down to 512 KB/s


    Hello,

    I have a problem when writing to a Sandisk Ultra 128 GB microSD card that I use in my music player (Ibasso DX50).
    When I copy music files to the card, for the first 4 or 5 files, the throughput is OK (between 4 and 10 MB/s), but systematically after a few files, the speed goes down to 512 KB/s.

    I have the same problem using this card on another PC, so I assume the problem is with the SD card.

    I formatted the card to FAT32, because I had problems with the native SD card format.
    I did not notice the problem at the beginning, when the card was almost empty, but now the card is almost full, and I think the problem occurs more and more easily.

    Thanks for helping.
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  2. Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
       #2

    Have seen many fake drives.
    Test your micro SD card with h2testw
    H2testw - Test for Fake USB Flash Drives | USB Pen Drive Apps
      My Computers


  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bits
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Hi,

    The test on 28 GBytes gave the following results:

    Average Write speed 5,6 MBytes/sec
    Average Read speed: 4,8 MBytes/sec

    These results are not very impressive, but at least they are in line with the best results I see when writing.
    There is however a difference: when I put files on the card, it is located in the Ibasso connected to the PC via USB, but for the test, the card was in a SD card adapter.

    Could it be that this is the reason for this speed problem ?
    I will try to put the files using the adapter, to see what it gives.
      My Computer


  4. Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
       #4

    Did it gave you that the SD is a 128G?
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bits
    Thread Starter
       #5

    With the card in an card adapter, here is the result I got on another PC, testing only 1000 MBytes:
    Warning: Only 1000 of 121925 MByte tested.
    Test finished without errors.
    You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
    Writing speed: 18.9 MByte/s
    Reading speed: 64.0 MByte/s
    H2testw v1.4


    These results looks quite good.

    Now, with the card in the music player, connected in USB, I get:
    Warning: Only 1000 of 121925 MByte tested.
    Test finished without errors.
    You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
    Writing speed: 6.55 MByte/s
    Reading speed: 15.6 MByte/s
    H2testw v1.4


    First conclusion: Card is really 128 GBytes.
    Second conclusion: far better results with the card in an adapter.
    Third conclusion: in both conditions, I do not see this speed decrease to 512 KBytes/sec... !

    The only explanation I see is that something is wrong in the way teracopy puts the files on the card, and using windows copy is not better.
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