#microsd reader

This Little Lexar Goes a Long Way

Lexar microSD reader

Seems like every iteration of Apple products comes with fewer connections, not more.  Some see it as progress, others, problematic.

When Apple adopted the lightning connector, all my 30-pin plugs were immediately obsolete for iPhone, iPad, and iPod.  A few critics say that same adoption of new technology to wireless headphones (abandoning the headphone jack) just insures…

Easy process to transfer content to or from the card reader

Provides memory expansion to your devices

Perfect for those that use sports camcorders or aerial cameras

Compact and portable

Design and Build

The Lexar M1 microSD card reader is very small and portable, with a surface area smaller than a 20c coin. The build material is plastic and has a microSD slot on one end and a micro-USB interface on the other.

  Lexar M1 microSD socket

Lexar M1 micro-USB plug

Usage

Simply attach to your compatible device, in our case an Android 6.0 tablet and start using.

  Lexar M1 attached to an Android tablet

Our tablet detected the USB reader immediately and offered the option to either use as secondary storage or as a USB mass storage drive. The later allows you to have more portability if you want to read the card of another machine without causing too many issues on the current device.

Conclusion

The Lexar M1 worked as expected. It’s small size and plastic build makes it extremely light, portable and convenient for offloading content from mobile devices on the go. Those same features make the M1 a great travelling companion enabling travellers to keep a backup of the photos and videos taken on their mobile devices. The Lexar M1 is ideal for people that consume a lot of local data on their devices.

We live in a fairly mobile world with ever increasing storage demands as camcorders, smartphones, tablets and dashcams etc… become a part of our everyday life. Lexar acknowledged this with the release of their new high performance 200GB microSDXC card and USB reader.

To provide us with the fastest possible experience, the 200GB microSDXC card boasts transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s with the reader also being USB 3.0 compatible. 200GB is enough to store more than 17 hours of High Definition videos, 33,000 photos, or 28,000 songs.

Performance

The performance of memory cards can be variable as it is generally limited by the quality of the integrated card reader of the device. Having the Lexar supplied USB 3.0 reader helps but not always accessible when using smaller devices such as a mobile phone. For this reason, we ran our benchmarks using the in-built microSD card reader in a Microsoft Surface Pro 2.

Surface Pro 2’s internal card reader used for testing

The speed tests were performed using 2 popular freeware tools: ATTO and SpeedOut.

Lexmark 200GB HP MicroSDXC Atto Disk Benchmark

Lexmark 200GB HP MicroSDXC SpeedOut Disk Benchmark

Whilst not achieving read speeds of 95MB/s, we managed to hit over 80MB/s a couple of times using ATTO which is still a great result considering we used an internal card reader and no one usually hits the marketed speeds during normal use.

Similarly, from the results, we can see that the performance improved as the file size increased. This makes it perfect for portable and/or smaller video recording devices.

Final Thoughts

Lexar have seen the gap that exists with high speed, high capacity storage and have come to the party with their 200GB microSDXC offering. This little gem not only performed well but exceeded our initial expectations.

For anyone in the market for a fast microSDXC card, the Lexar 200GB is one card that shouldn’t be passed up. It offers great performance in a tiny package and perfect for those with devices with high capacity demands such as GoPros, smartphones and security surveillance cameras.

We rate this as highly recommended.

Transfer files rapidly to iPhone using New Lexar microSD reader