At first we would like to thank Toshiba Corporation for offering a sample of their EXCERIA PRO M402 MicroSDXC Card for testing and reviewing.

 

 

About Toshiba:

 

“Toshiba is a world leader and innovator in pioneering high technology, a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products spanning information & communications systems; digital consumer products; electronic devices and components; power systems, including nuclear energy; industrial and social infrastructure systems; and home appliances. Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 740 companies, with 204,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing 6.3 trillion yen (US$68 billion).”

 

Product Features:

 

High Data Speeds

 

The Toshiba EXCERIA™ PRO M402 microSD series is perfect for 4K video recording in the fastest and toughest situations as well as for capacity expansion for your smartphone. The new Application Performance Class A1*1 gives you high speed performance and reliability when storing and running Android applications on microSD cards*2.

 

Various Capacities for Your Needs

 

You can choose from different capacities starting from 16GB to 128GB to expand the storage capacity of your mobile device.

 

Ultra-Small in Size

 

The Toshiba microSDHC/microSDXC cards comes with an adapter and can therefore be used in a variety of devices without any problems, such as cameras, camcorders, tablets, and also laptops or PCs.

 

Mobile Shooting under Tough Conditions

 

The EXCERIA™ PRO M402 series are specifically engineered for High-Action sports and adventure enthusiasts. It is water, shock and x-ray proof. You can even use it in the snow or in the desert as they work across an operating temperature range of -25°C to +85°C.

 

Security Software to Protect Your Data

 

Also included is a license for a data recovery software package that enables users to recover content deleted from the card.

 

5 Year Warranty

 

Engineered to Toshiba’s famously high quality standards, the Toshiba SD Memory Cards are backed by a solid five-year limited standard warranty.

 

 

Product Specifications:

 

 

 

Toshiba has recently launched a new line of microSDHC/microSDXC cards with the EXCERIA PRO M402 code name and these are aimed for 4K video recording but also for storage expansion in our favorite smartphone. M402 is rated with the new Application Performance Class A1, which specifies at least 1500 random read IOPS, 500 random write IOPS, while sustaining a sequential performance of 10MB/s. The sample we have received did not come in a retail packaging, but here is an example of it from the manufacturer’s website:

 

 

 

The product arrived inside a transparent plastic enclosure, which did also contain the microSD to SD ADP-HS02 adapter:

 

 

 

By supplying the adapter, Toshiba makes sure that the card can be used on a wide range of devices:

 

 

 

On the back side of the adapter, we will be able to spot the regular nine gold-plated contacts:

 

 

 

As regular SD cards, the adapter does also come with a write protect switch:

 

 

 

The EXCERIA PRO M402 does come with a white background frontal layer, but also here we will be able to spot the total storage space of the current model, along with the supported standards:

 

 

 

On the back side of the card, we do have the usual microSDHC/XC gold-plated contacts:

 

 

 

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I5 4690K Retail @ stock

Motherboard: BIOSTAR GAMING Z97X

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 4x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: OCZ Vertex 4 240GB SSD

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64

The Toshiba EXCERIA PRO M402 MicroSDXC Card comes formatted exFAT:

 

 

 

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:

 

 

HD Tune File Benchmark

 

 

Summary Graph (Read Performance)

 

To measure the real life performance, we have used the Total Commander application to copy to the card and from the card the same file and recorded the transfer speeds, when they have stabilized.

 

File Copy

File Read

Summary Graph (Real-life performance)

 

 

The new EXCERIAL PRO M402 series offers enough performance for 4K video shooting when installed in devices such as action cameras, drones, camcorders, but can also supply extra storage for tablets, laptops or even productivity PCs. In order to offer optimal data integrity, the M402 series was engineered to be water, shock and x-ray proof; thanks to the large temperature interval of -25 to 85 degrees Celsius, the product can be used in the snow or even desert.

 

As we have seen with professional Toshiba cards in the past, the EXCERIA PRO M402 is offered with a 5-year warranty! The retail packaging is also coming with a license for data recovery that enables the users to recover content deleted from the card (LC Tech).

 

The M402 is available in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB variants. We will disclose the prices for each as soon as we receive them from the manufacturer!

Toshiba EXCERIA PRO M402 MicroSDXC Card is Recommended for:

 

 

We would like to thank again to Toshiba Corporation for making this review possible!