Kingston Canvas Plus 128GB SD Cards Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston Canvas 128GB SD Cards3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark4. Throughput 5. Android Performance6. Real Life File Transfers7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

Kingston's Canvas range of SD cards consists of five product lines and in order performance, fastest first, these are; React Plus (standard SD and microSD), Go! Plus (standard SD and microSD), Select Plus (standard SD and microSD) React (microSD) and Select (standard SD). Kingston kindly provided us with samples of the React Plus (standard SD), Go! Plus (microSD) and Select Plus (microSD) cards to look at.

The flagship of the range, the React Plus is rated up to 300MB/s and 260MB/s for read and writes respectively for the standard SD card. We confirmed those speed ratings with the ATTO and CrystalDiskMark benchmarks with the 128GB card producing read/write scores of 295MB/s and 283MB/s respectively in ATTO and 308MB/s reads and 299MB/s writes in CrystalDiskMark.

The Canvas Go! Plus microSD is rated up to 170MB/s for reads and up to 90MB/s for writes. Under testing, we managed to get a bit more out of the 128GB drive. When tested with the ATTO benchmark we saw 177MB/s for reads and 123MB/s for writes and saw further gains in CrystalDiskMark with reads of 185MB/s and writes of 130MB/s.

With the Canvas Select Plus microSD card, although we got close to the maximum read speed of 100MB/s (92MB/s ATTO, 98MB/s CrystalDiskMark) we were a little way off when it came to matching the official write figure of 85MB/s, with ATTO producing a figure of 60MB/s and CrystalDiskMark, 61MB/s.

All the cards are backed by a lifetime warranty and there is a 2-year warranty on the bundled card readers for the Canvas React Plus series.

We found the three cards reviewed on Insight UK. The Canvas React Plus 128GB SD card is £112.79 (inc VAT) HERE,  Canvas Go! Plus microSD is £23.99 (inc VAT) HERE and the Canvas Select Plus microSD is £17.99 (inc VAT) HERE.

Pros

• Plenty of speed and capacity options.
• Canvas React Plus cards come with a fast reader.

Cons

• Canvas React Plus pricey.

KitGuru says: Kingston's Canvas SD range covers everything from professional 4K/8K cinema cameras down to point and shoot cameras, and pretty much everything in between.

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