Toshiba Exceria Pro N502 64GB SDXC Memory Card Review

Introduction

Toshiba is a pioneer and leader in Secure Digital memory cards. The Exceria Pro N502 is the flagship SD card offering up to 270MB/s read and 260MB/s write speeds, along with a Video Speed Class 90 (V90) rating to deliver at least 90MB/s continuous write speed. This makes the card suitable for 8K video recording. The card is also backwards compatible with UHS-I devices and operates in SDR104 mode to provide up to 95MB/s read and 95MB/s write speeds. The Exceria Pro N502 card is produced in 32, 64, 128 and 256 GB capacities. The Exceria Pro N502 64GB SDXC card model THN-N502G0640A6 with UPC 4547808810111 is covered in this review. The card is made in Japan is covered by a 5-year warranty.

Performance

The Exceria Pro N502 64GB SDXC card was tested in several UHS-I and UHS-II card readers. The benchmark results show the card measured up to 278.4 MB/s maximum sequential read speed. This is slightly better than the 170 MB/s read speed rating. The card attained a sequential write speed of 252.6 MB/s in the benchmark tests. This is slightly below the 260 MB/s maximum write speed quoted by Toshiba.

In UHS-I mode the card measured up to 95.5 MB/s sequential read and 93.7 MB/s sequential write speeds.

In these tests the N502 card had read speed issues in two USB-C SanDisk card readers.

Card: Toshiba Exceria Pro N502 64GB
Benchmark: CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64
Program settings: 1000 MB, 5 passes, random test data
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.40GHz
RAM: 32GB DDR3 1600

The Exceria Pro N502 64GB card will be included in upcoming camera tests. The results will be added to the table below.

Cameras tested with this card: Nikon Coolpix P1000

The following table contains information encoded in the SD card.

The internal card register shows this card was produced in March 2018. The Manufacturer ID (MID) 0x000002 and OEM ID (OID) "TM" are consistent with SD cards produced by Toshiba.