Cellphone - Micro SD Card Read/Write Speeds

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GDI_Lord
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Cellphone - Micro SD Card Read/Write Speeds

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What read/write speeds are you getting on your Micro SD cards please? I want to purchase a large Micro SD card and I don't want to waste my money buying a card that is rated faster than what the phone can handle.

Thank you
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Hey guys and girls

I am upgrading from an Xperia T to an Xperia Z3 soon. I'm very excited, but I'm slightly disappointed at the internal storage only being 16GB on the Z3, which is the same as on the Xperia T.

I'm looking at getting a rather expensive (to me) SanDisk 64GB Micro SD card with a claimed speed of 48MB/s. What reading and writing speeds are you getting on your Micro SD cards? I don't want to waste my money buying this if the phone itself can't achieve high speeds, so I'd like to check what speed your phones get.

I tested my Xperia T using SD Card Tester and here are my results, rounded for readability:
Sony Xperia T
Internal Storage:
File size used for testing: 1024MB
Read: 16MB/s
Write: 14MB/s

Micro SD Card:
File size used for testing: 512MB
Type: SanDisk
Size: 2GB
Read: 9MB/s
Write: 3MB/s

Please could you test your phone and post your speeds for comparison and what Micro SD card you are using?

Thanks
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