Testing

Having recently purchased a new Canon PowerShot A630, I was quite eager to see just how well the microSD Trio would work.  So, during a planned trip through the Appalachian Mountains to attend a family reunion, I was able to give it a really good work out.  The Canon is able to handle both still shots and movies.  The 2 GBs of memory storage would really come in handy.  Twelve hundred miles later, it was time to download the contents for review on my PC.

After the weekend trip, there were 154 still shots taken and two .AVI movies.  The combined total amounts to 533 MB of memory used…still plenty of space for many more .AVI movies and dozens and dozens of still shots.  Keep in mind that the Canon is an 8 MP camera.  The still images are captured at 3264x2448 resolution and the movies are captured at 30 FPS and a resolution of 640x480.

We’re going to use two methods of downloading the contents to the PC. The first method will be using the Camera’s USB cable to transfer; the second will be using the microSD Trio’s ability to plug directly into a USB Port.

The results were confirmed across 5 runs, and it is clear that plugging the microSD Trio directly into a USB port will provide a faster transfer of files than via the Canon’s USB Cable connection.  Having only the Canon camera to test, I can’t vouch for transfer rates of other cameras, but, I think it would be hard to beat the direct connection configuration.