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We needed two 32GB microSD cards to upgrade our S4 cell phones storage. We bought one of these and one of the main competing models, an EVO also 32GB, that was a couple of dollars more expensive than this SP model. I read reviews from buyers and experts alike but was still having trouble deciding which one to settle on so I just bought one of each so I could test them for myself. First I recorded a couple of 1080p videos that were saved directly to the SP microSD card, then watched them to see how well they recorded. All videos played back nice and smooth. Next I tested the speeds with the current version (as of this review) of CrystalDiskMark, first at the 100MiB file size, then at 1GB file size. The speeds for this SP Elite card were remarkably consistent in both test. I've added a pic of the results. The results are an average of 5 passes on each test, tested on a computer with a built-in card reader, on the Windows 10 64-bit OS. * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes 100MiB Test Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 75.586 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 20.894 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 4.996 MB/s [ 1219.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.102 MB/s [ 269.0 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 86.616 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 22.020 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 4.769 MB/s [ 1164.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.099 MB/s [ 268.3 IOPS] Test : 100 MiB [E: 0.0% (0.0/29.9 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2015/08/11 17:52:11 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 10240] (x64) 1GB Test Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 75.506 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 20.894 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5.037 MB/s [ 1229.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.090 MB/s [ 266.1 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 86.197 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 21.810 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 4.767 MB/s [ 1163.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.080 MB/s [ 263.7 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [E: 0.0% (0.0/29.9 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2015/08/11 17:52:37 OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 10240] (x64) I'm very happy with this card and would definitely buy it again.