I'm leaving this page online in case someone find old data like this interesting.
These benchmark values have been generated with VFSBench, VFS volume benchmark for PalmOS devices.
The results themselves have been reported by several people. Due to the inaccuracy of any benchmarking process, these values should only be taken as a guideline. It's still surprising that different cards are orders of magnitude faster than others.
The benchmark itself generates one 1MB file, and writes data to it in 4KB blocks, timing the result. As a benchmark, actual usage of a card (or any other media) may yield different results.
Please note, that if you run the benchmark (which you'll be doing at your own risk), the benchmark will take some time to run. Especially with the cards that have a write speed of less than 1MBps the benchmark may take surprisingly long time to finish.
It used to be possible to add to this list, by reporting your scores by emailing me. Any results, even slower than ones on the list, were accepted. I was especially interested in results generated with other PalmOS devices than the Zodiac.
Card type | Device | Slot | Read speed KBps | Write speed KBps |
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Internal | Zodiac2 | Internal | 158,649 | 181,375 |
Transcend 45x SD 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 52,758 | 25,850 |
Transcend 45x SD 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 36,099 | 17,829 |
Kingston Elite Pro 512MB (Toshiba) | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 50,156 | 16,178 |
SanDisk Ultra II 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 44,472 | 14,623 |
SanDisk Ultra II 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 33,390 | 13,927 |
Kingston Elite Pro 512MB (Toshiba) | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 36,235 | 13,005 |
SanDisk Ultra II 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 34,158 | 12,110 |
SanDisk Ultra II 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 32,007 | 11,054 |
ATP 64MB | Palm Zire 72 | 9,742 | 10,761 | |
SanDisk SD 2GB | Palm Zire 72 | 17,706 | 9,731 | |
SanDisk SD 2GB | Palm Zire 72 | 17,716 | 9,737 | |
Kingston Elite Pro 512MB | Tungsten T3 | 27,685 | 7,275 | |
SanDisk 512MB | Palm Zire 72 | 18,147 | 6,842 | |
Kingston 512MB SD (Toshiba) | Tungsten T2 | 8,995 | 4,304 | |
Lexar High-Speed 32x (Rebranded Panasonic) 256mb | Zodiac1 | Slot 1 | 44,267 | 3,994 |
PANASONIC 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 33,487 | 3,799 |
Lexar High-Speed 32x (Rebranded Panasonic) 256mb | Zodiac1 | Slot 2 | 33,420 | 3,761 |
Lexar MMC 16MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 16,024 | 1,727 |
SANDISK 512MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 39,475 | 1,544 |
Lexar MMC 16MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 10,299 | 1,282 |
ridata pro 1GB 66x SD | Sprint treo 650 | 22,951 | 1,155 | |
LEXAR 256MB (Not Lexar High Speed) | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 43,129 | 1,016 |
SANDISK 512MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 38,326 | 840 |
Fujifilm SD 64MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 24,385 | 508 |
Fujifilm SD 64MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 22,998 | 504 |
Dane-Elec 512MB SD (Toshiba) | Tungsten E2(OC'd 333MHz) | 9,441 | 444 | |
Dane-Elec 512MB SD (Toshiba) | Tungsten E2 | 6,009 | 430 | |
Kingston 512MB | Palm Zire 72 | 8,355 | 344 | |
Kingston 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 50,231 | 114 |
Smart 128MB (Toshiba) | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 50,610 | 105 |
Smart 128MB (Toshiba) | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 37,850 | 105 |
Viking 256MB | Zodiac2 | Slot 2 | 37,957 | 99 |
Dane-Elec 256MB SD (Toshiba) | Zodiac2 | Slot 1 | 52,103 | 91 |