Transcend 350V 64GB

  • Obtained from: Amazon
  • Price paid: $11.99
  • Advertised capacity: 64GB
  • Logical capacity: 62,545,461,248 bytes
  • Physical capacity: 62,545,461,248 bytes
  • Fake/skimpy flash: Skimpy (2.27% skimp)
  • Protected area: 134,217,728 bytes
  • Adjusted skimp: 2.06%
  • Speed class markings: Class 10, U1
  • CID data:
    • Manufacturer ID: 0x74*
    • OEM ID: 0x4a60 (ASCII: J`)*
    • Product name: 0x5553445531 (ASCII: USDU1)
    • Product revision: 0x20
Sample #123Average
Manufacture dateMar 2024Mar 2024Apr 2024N/A
Serial number0x310fac6f0x310fac8d0x30100919N/A
Sequential read speed (MB/sec)94.4592.4691.4292.78
Sequential write speed (MB/sec)44.0535.2438.4939.26
Random read speed (IOPS/sec)2,818.952,802.772,696.552,772.76
Random write speed (IOPS/sec)520.52324.89517.74454.38
Read/write cycles to first error1,446Not yet determined9621,204
Read/write cycles to 0.1% failure thresholdNot yet determinedNot yet determinedNot yet determinedNot yet determined
Read/write cycles to complete failureNot yet determinedNot yet determinedNot yet determinedNot yet determined
Total days to complete failureNot yet determinedNot yet determined Not yet determinedNot yet determined
Card reader usedJJC CR-UTC4ACJJC CR-UTC4ACJJC CR-UTC4ACN/A
Package frontN/A
Package backN/A
Card frontN/A
Card backN/A

* This manufacturer ID/OEM ID is pretty well known to be associated with Transcend.

Discussion

Transcend is a brand that I hadn’t really considered until I went out and searched for “microSD card reliability” (I keep hoping I’ll show up in the search results…you know, before page 100) and stumbled upon a survey asking people to rank what the most reliable SD card was.

Performance for all three samples was…decent. Sequential read speeds, sequential write speeds, and random write speeds were all less than one standard deviation above average (with the exception of sample #2, whose random write speeds were a bit below average). Random read speeds for all three were more than one standard deviation above average.

Endurance testing for all three samples is still ongoing:

  • Sample #1’s first error was a single bit flip, in a single sector, during round 1,447. It has survived 2,005 read/write cycles in total so far.
  • Sample #2 has survived 3,583 read/write cycles so far and has not yet experienced any errors.
  • Sample #3’s first error was a four-sector wide address decoding error during round 963. It has survived 1,827 read/write cycles in total so far.

November 4, 2024 (current number of read/write cycles updates automatically every hour)