Other by stefan @ 2014-09-22
Having one of the latest 3D or 4K video recorders or want to shoot RAW much faster? No problem since Team Group has you covered with their latest microSDHC UHS-1 U3 cards which come in both 16GB and 32GB variants and have rated speeds of 45MB/s writes and 90MB/s reads.
At first we would like to thank Team Group for sending a sample of their Xtreem Micro SDHC UHC-1 U3 for testing and reviewing.
"Team Group, a strong and solid company growing rapidly in the global memory market, located global offices around the world to serve all major market and create outstanding services to all our customers. Offices include Hong Kong,Japan. From an office of only 4 employees to over 400 global employees, Team Group employee upholds the “Honesty, Professional, Efficiency, Discipline, Simplicity” operation philosophy to ensure total customer satisfaction. We have become one of the fastest growing 3C product manufacture.
Team Group maintains a corporate philosophy of “integrity, professionalism, efficiency, discipline, and simplicity.” Team Group possesses professional research and development capabilities, high-quality products, fast production efficiencies, a tightly-knit global sales network, and complete customer service. This has made Team Group the fastest growing 3C product manufacturer in recent years, and has allowed it to obtain a globally leading status. According to a survey conducted by a leading market research agency, Team Group is the 9th largest memory module manufacturer in the world (iSuppli 2012 Q3). In the area of flash memory products, Team Group’s USB drives rank 7th in the world (iSuppli 2012 Q3), and its Flash cards rank 8th in the world (iSuppli 2012 Q1). In addition, it ranks among Common Wealth Magazines top 1000 enterprises year after year. After years of hard work, Team Group was publicly listed in the GreTai Securities Market (stock ticker: 4967)."
Supports Ultra High Speed Class 3 (U3) specification Complies with Class 10 specification
Fully complies with the specification standards of the SD Association
Equipped with Error Correction Code (ECC) function, allowing it to automatically detect and fix errors Supports Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) technology
Supports power-cut command and sleep mode
Complies with RoHS specifications
Lifetime warranty
“Premier Gold” design
The surface of Team micro SDHC UHS-I U3 series are processed with “Premier Gold” painting to represent monarch flagship product and highlight personal professional taste.
The latest high-speed 32GB MicroSDHC cards from Team Group support the UHS-I U3 specification and can be paired successfully with ultra-fast Full-HD, 3D and 4K high-def video cameras, but also for RAW continuous photo taking. The card is also supplied with a microSDHC adapter inside a slim cardboard casing, which shows the usage scenarios along with the rated read/write transfer speeds:
On the back side of the packaging, we will get to see some of the technical specifications, but also an estimated number of photos, music files and videos which can fit on 16GB or 32GB cards:
The supplied adapter will enhance the product compatibility so it can be used in a multitude of devices:
The adapter is also fitted with a lock switch for write protect:
The card is built with two color accents and on the frontal side we have the total storage capacity noted, along with the supported standards:
On the back, the manufacturer has noted a serial number:
Team Group was nice and has also offered us an USB 3.0 card reader for testing with the product. It is offered in a similar type of packaging and was built to support both SD(HC) and microSD(HC) cards:
The card reader was built with a retractable body, so no plastic cover is necessary for the USB 3.0 port; its white top cover is coated with a rubberized paint which offers a good grip. Because the product is a bit wide, we may have some difficulties fitting other USB devices in the nearby spare ports:
Here is a view at the microSDHC and SDHC ports:
The USB 3.0 is easy accessible:
Our sample was easy to attach to the card reader, with or without the supplied adapter:
The testbench was composed from the following hardware:
CPU: Intel I7 Retail @ stock
Motherboard: Foxconn BloodRage with G42 BIOS
RAM: 3x2GB Patriot PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz
Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.
Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 & Patriot TorqX 64GB SSD
Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling
OS: Windows 8
ASUS U3S6
USB 3.0 Card Reader
The Team Group Micro SDHC UHS-1 U3 32GB Flash Card comes formatted FAT32:
To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:
To measure the real life performance, I have used the Total Commander application to copy to the flash drive and from the flash drive the same file and recorded the transfer speeds, when they have stabilized.
File Copy
File Read
The new microSDHC UHS-1 U3 cards from Team Group are offered in both 16GB and 32GB flavors and offer very good read/write performances which allow recording multimedia content at much higher quality than before like Full-HD recording, 3D and 4K high-def video-recording and photo shooting (including continuous RAW). In order to benefit of these speeds we must use the product along with devices which support the new standard, otherwise we will get noticeably slower performances.
This series is one of the flagships of Team Group and in order to represent this they have used a golden paint right onto the card; they like to call this “Premier Gold”.
Now, to something everyone is interested in, the pricing: the 32GB variant can be found online for about 47.63 Euros.
We would like to thank again to Team Group for making this review possible!