Flash storage media has taken a huge leap in size lately with the new addition of SDHC cards. With fully digital imaging and video coming out, the need for a better SD card was tantamount to the success of new technologies. Companies like Patriot and Verbatim have stepped up to the plate in hopes to dominate the SDHC market and satisfy an ever growing need for expansion media. Today we will be pitting the Verbatim Premium 32GB SDHC against the Patriot 8GB Duplicator SDHC in an effort to see how this new generation of SDHC cards perform. Let’s get a closer look at these cards.

Prices: Verbatim: $110.99 Patriot: $33.99

Closer Look:

Specifications and Features:

Patriot:

Verbatim:

Premium SDHC Card™ 32GB

Verbatim SDHC cards offer optimal performance for your SDHC digital camera or other SDHC slot equipped device. Featuring the industry's highest performance rating (Speed Class 6 rated), and minimum Write and Read speeds of (60X) 9MB and (133X) 20MB/sec respectively, Verbatim's SDHC card offers superior video capture/playback characteristics and fast photo upload/downloads to/from your PC as compared to lower performing Class 2 and Class 4 speed rated cards.

Features & Benefits

Testing Setup:

• Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9450 With Noctua Cooler
  
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
• Memory: Patriot Viper Series 1066 5-5-5-15 2 x 2GB
• Video Card: Asus EAH 4830
  
• Power Supply: In Win 850W Commander Series
  
• Hard Drive: Seagate 750GB SATA
• Optical Drive: LG DVD
• OS: Windows Vista Ultimate
• Thermaltake armor and AZZA Solano 1000

Testing:

For testing I will be running Flash Media Toolkit. I will be running the read test as well as the low level file benchmarking tool on both the Patriot and Verbatim cards. The two cards are different classes of SDHC type so we won’t technically be pitting them head to head against each other but we will display the results just so you can see what kind of speeds these card can achieve.

Low Level File Benchmark:

Patriot:

Verbatim:

Read Test:

Patriot:

Verbatim:

Conclusion:

Overall both card achieved very impressive speeds over SD cards of yesteryear. The addition of the duplicator software to the Patriot make it an incredible buy for under $0 and the sheer size of the Verbatim make for a great all around card for whatever you are doing including using it to run a secondary OS.

Would I recommend these products? Absolutely, although personally I would go for one of the other Patriot SDHC cards in the duplicator series because 8GB’s isn’t enough it was however a great card over all. The Verbatim’s throughput made it an incredible contender and I was very impressed with its over all performance over the Patriot

Pros:

• Prices for both
• Software (Patriot)
• Speed
• More Durable than an External HDD 

Cons:

• Speeds Weren`t up to par with the Verbatim (Patriot)

 

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