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I’ve done previous articles. A decent amount of the cards here will be the same. The goal was to round up as many cards as I had on-hand to do benchmark testing on. I also did a bracketed camera test with the Nikon D600. Here is the companion video on Youtube . I used a Transcend USB 3.0 card reader for this test. Here are the steps I took to setup the benchmark: Make a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu Desktop on it. In my case I used version 17.04. Download an ISO . Download the USB bootable drive tool . Run Rufus and have it create the bootable drive with the downloaded ISO image . At that point you can reboot your computer with the USB drive attached and get into Ubuntu. Once loaded, you have to find the Disk Utility. It wasn’t quite as easy for me as in past articles. Partly because I haven’t used Ubuntu for a long time and they also hid the utility for whatever reason. I was able to search the available programs and bring it up. They also hide the benchmark functionality inside a “b...

I have a more recent speed testing article in articles posted October 2017. Most of my largest articles happen on a whim. I think of an idea and then keep scaling it up as I think of ways to make the article even more interesting and useful. My initial though here was to see how my collection of SD memory cards faired write-speed wise. I found out that Ubuntu Linux has a disk benchmarking application built-in, which is prefect for a basic test. That idea eventually scaled into making a full length video showing each card in my newest camera and measuring the time it takes to save a number of RAW files to the card. I’m focusing on write speeds for this article because that is what makes the difference when using the card in the camera. Below is the process used to get the computer based benchmark results: I have a USB2.0 Internal memory card reader in my computer that I performed the test with. The application I used was Ubuntu’s built-in disk utility. The benchmark program required tha...