I’m getting somewhat similar numbers with my 64GB 95/90 card. I thought the first card I got was faulty so I went to Bestbuy to exchange it for another one and the second one has the same low write speeds when benching with CDM. I have 2 one year old 64GB Extreme Plus UHS-3 (80/50 rated) cards sold and shipped by amazon that reads at the same speed and writes FASTER than the new 95/90 card.
I tested with the following hardware/software:
-Kingston FCR-HS3 USB 3.0 card reader
-Asus Z77V-Pro motherboard (using Intel USB 3.0 controller)
-Windows 7 x64
-Crystal DiskMark 3.0.3 x64
-ATTO 2.46
1 year old SDSDQX-064G-AFFP-A bought from Amazon.com rated for 80 read/50 write.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 96.323 MB/s
Sequential Write : 65.149 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 64.469 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 43.180 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 9.700 MB/s [2368.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 3.098 MB/s [756.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 8.056 MB/s [1966.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.875 MB/s [701.9 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [N: 53.6% (31.8/59.5 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2015/11/30 20:54:11
OS : Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
SanDisk Extreme+ 64GB c10/U3 uSDXC 80/50MBps
2 brand new SDSQXSG-064G-CN6MA bought from Bestbuy.ca rated for 95 read/90 write
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 95.804 MB/s
Sequential Write : 60.911 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 64.608 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 30.765 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 9.609 MB/s [2345.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 2.805 MB/s [684.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 7.958 MB/s [1942.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.610 MB/s [637.3 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [N: 0.0% (0.0/59.4 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2015/11/30 19:39:22
OS : Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
SanDisk Extreme+ 64GB U3 uSDXC 95/90MB/s
ATTO doesn’t have a nice text dump like CDM, but the results are the same, it maxes out at 95 read and 60 write for the new card.
So yeah… my 1 year old 80/50 Extreme+ cards can read and write FASTER than the new 95/90 Extreme+ card.
I also tried changing the test size from 1,000MB to 100MB in CDM and the sequential read of the old card dropped from 96 to 86MB/s read but write speed remained at 65MB/s. The new card went from 96 to 95MB/s read (margin of error) and write speed remained at 60MB/s.
I don’t have another USB 3.0 card reader to test it with, but considering the old card could hit 65MB/s write consistently I don’t think the card reader is the bottleneck because if it was, then I should max out at the same 65MB/s write like the old card.
If it was just 1 new 95/90 card performing slow maybe it was just a fluke but I tested 2 brand new out of the package and since it was at Bestbuy, these aren’t fakes either. Either SanDisk made a bad batch and QA didn’t catch it or whoever was in charge of making the new packaging royally screwed up and copy/pasted the numbers from the Extreme PRO card because that is also rated at 95/90. This card should be performing very close to 1:1 ratio of read:write but it’s more like the 1.6:1 ratio of my old 80/50 cards.
I’m wondering if I should go back to Bestbuy AGAIN to return it for a refund. On the one hand, the black friday sale price made it cost the same as what I paid last year for the over achieving/under rated 80/50 card so I’m getting the similar performance for the same price. On the other hand, the product’s performance does NOT match what is on the packaging. I’m willing to give it a 5-10% margin of error, but it’s 33% slower WRITE than what is stated on the packaging. I buy these cards for the fast WRITE speed, not the read.
I found that amazon.com review mentioned earlier and that person does get 97/91 but that was a 32GB card, not the 64GB that we all have. I think I’ll try Sandisk’s online chat tomorrow and see what they have to say. I’d rather bring it back to Bestbuy.ca for a refund than pay to ship it cross-border to have it RMA’d in the USA.