The Verbatim brand was founded in 1969 in Mountain View, California. In the 1970s and 80s the company was well known for its floppy disks. In the 1990s it partnered with Mitsubishi Kasei and was later acquired by Mitsubishi. Today the company is still in the data storage business under the umbrella of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. Verbatim products include memory cards, USB drives and optical media. It offers several lines of Secure Digital cards, with the Pro Plus being the fastest UHS-I card.
The Pro Plus UHS-I card claims read speeds of 90MB/s and write speeds of 80MB/s. The card has a Video Speed Class 30 (V30) rating and will provide at least 30MB/s continuous write speed for video recording. Verbatim Pro Plus cards are offered in 32, 64, 128 and 256 GB capacities. The 64GB Pro Plus product number 49196 with UPC 023942491972 is covered in this review. The card is produced in Taiwan and covered by a lifetime warranty.
The Verbatim Pro Plus was benchmarked in several USB 3.1 and 3.0 card readers. In testing the card had a highest sequential read speed of 98.5 MB/s, comfortably above its 90MB/s claimed read speed. The sequential write speed peaked at 88.4 MB/s, also making good on its 80MB/s write speed promise.
Card: Verbatim Pro Plus V30 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
Verbatim Pro Plus V30 64GB Card Reader Benchmarks | Seq. Read 1000MB MB/s | Seq. Write 1000MB MB/s | Rand. Read 512KB MB/s | Rand. Write 512KB MB/s | Rand. Read 4KB MB/s QD1 | Rand. Read 4KB IOPS QD1 | Rand. Write 4KB MB/s QD1 | Rand. Write 4KB IOPS QD1 | Rand. Read 4KB MB/s QD32 | Rand. Read 4KB IOPS QD32 | Rand. Write 4KB MB/s QD32 | Rand. Write 4KB IOPS QD32 |
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Hama USB 3.0 UHS-II SD Card Reader | 98.513 | 79.922 | 82.741 | 0.916 | 9.412 | 2297.8 | 1.279 | 312.2 | 12.398 | 3026.8 | 1.157 | 282.4 |
Lexar Professional Workflow SR2 UHS-II | 98.402 | 80.258 | 83.220 | 0.847 | 9.358 | 2284.6 | 1.308 | 319.3 | 12.409 | 3029.7 | 1.326 | 323.8 |
Lexar LRWM04U-7000 UHS-II Reader | 98.384 | 82.055 | 83.303 | 0.901 | 9.302 | 2271.0 | 1.280 | 312.4 | 12.474 | 3045.3 | 1.339 | 327.0 |
Hama USB Type-C 3.1 UHS-II SD Card Reader | 98.181 | 83.326 | 83.289 | 0.902 | 10.039 | 2451.0 | 1.293 | 315.6 | 13.269 | 3239.6 | 1.313 | 320.6 |
SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-II USB-C Reader SDDR-409 | 97.952 | 79.498 | 80.898 | 0.795 | 6.887 | 1681.4 | 1.090 | 266.1 | 7.640 | 1865.3 | 1.149 | 280.4 |
SanDisk Extreme Pro SD UHS-II Reader/Writer | 97.925 | 78.811 | 81.784 | 0.783 | 6.278 | 1532.6 | 1.082 | 264.3 | 7.542 | 1841.3 | 1.150 | 280.8 |
Sony S1 High Speed UHS-II Reader/Writer | 97.925 | 82.093 | 81.934 | 0.761 | 6.154 | 1502.5 | 1.080 | 263.6 | 7.352 | 1794.9 | 1.136 | 277.3 |
SanDisk Extreme Pro SD UHS-II USB-C Reader | 97.888 | 79.965 | 81.124 | 0.843 | 6.877 | 1678.9 | 1.119 | 273.1 | 7.624 | 1861.3 | 1.143 | 279.2 |
Delkin Black Rugged Card Reader | 97.833 | 79.450 | 81.662 | 0.840 | 5.978 | 1459.4 | 1.104 | 269.6 | 7.235 | 1766.3 | 1.178 | 287.6 |
Delkin Dual Slot SD UHS-II and CF Card Reader | 96.741 | 83.392 | 83.152 | 0.771 | 9.083 | 2217.5 | 1.312 | 320.2 | 12.396 | 3026.5 | 1.337 | 326.5 |
SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-II SD Reader/Writer | 96.741 | 88.376 | 83.331 | 0.842 | 9.334 | 2278.9 | 1.316 | 321.2 | 12.490 | 3049.2 | 1.308 | 319.4 |
Kingston MobileLite G4 UHS-II | 96.670 | 88.101 | 83.179 | 0.842 | 9.015 | 2200.9 | 1.332 | 325.2 | 12.473 | 3045.2 | 1.343 | 327.9 |
Delkin Multi-Card CFast SD UHS-II microSD Reader | 96.652 | 83.426 | 83.317 | 0.825 | 9.201 | 2246.4 | 1.283 | 313.3 | 12.431 | 3034.9 | 1.309 | 319.5 |
ProMaster Professional Dual Card Reader SD UHS-II | 96.652 | 83.300 | 83.179 | 0.759 | 9.327 | 2277.0 | 1.255 | 306.3 | 12.413 | 3030.5 | 1.206 | 294.4 |
Lexar Professional Dual Slot UHS-II Card Reader | 96.625 | 83.893 | 83.097 | 0.754 | 9.258 | 2260.3 | 1.181 | 288.4 | 12.257 | 2992.3 | 1.275 | 311.3 |
Transcend Multi-Card Reader RDF9 | 96.607 | 83.293 | 83.165 | 0.885 | 9.460 | 2309.6 | 1.300 | 317.4 | 12.433 | 3035.4 | 1.337 | 326.4 |
Delkin Travel Reader | 96.527 | 83.220 | 82.782 | 0.814 | 9.401 | 2295.1 | 1.162 | 283.7 | 12.433 | 3035.3 | 1.331 | 324.9 |
Kingston FCR-HS4 Card Reader | 96.527 | 83.920 | 83.056 | 0.801 | 9.240 | 2255.8 | 1.248 | 304.7 | 12.405 | 3028.5 | 1.197 | 292.2 |
DriverGenius USB 3.1(G1) / 3.0 UHS-II SD Card Reader | 95.603 | 82.222 | 81.920 | 1.211 | 8.227 | 2008.6 | 1.174 | 286.6 | 11.179 | 2729.2 | 1.233 | 301.1 |
Delkin Universal Memory Card Reader | 95.568 | 76.094 | 83.483 | 0.811 | 8.159 | 1992.0 | 1.175 | 286.8 | 10.924 | 2667.1 | 1.245 | 304.0 |
Verbatim USB-C Pocket Card Reader | 95.473 | 83.359 | 81.622 | 0.797 | 9.859 | 2407.0 | 1.161 | 283.4 | 11.719 | 2861.0 | 1.127 | 275.2 |
SanDisk ImageMate Pro Multi-Card Reader/Writer | 95.031 | 80.585 | 79.872 | 0.801 | 5.991 | 1462.8 | 1.068 | 260.8 | 7.205 | 1758.9 | 1.165 | 284.3 |
Transcend SD Card Reader RDF5 Black | 94.757 | 82.306 | 82.362 | 0.902 | 6.688 | 1632.9 | 1.146 | 279.7 | 7.298 | 1781.6 | 1.177 | 287.3 |
Sony MRW-E90 XQD 2.0 / SD UHS-II Card Reader | 92.786 | 79.971 | 79.951 | 0.901 | 8.205 | 2003.3 | 1.192 | 291.1 | 11.108 | 2711.9 | 1.237 | 302.1 |
Transcend Multi-Card Reader RDF8 Black | 84.638 | 76.077 | 75.123 | 0.834 | 8.409 | 2053.0 | 1.159 | 283.0 | 10.741 | 2622.3 | 1.253 | 305.9 |
The Verbatim Pro Plus has been tested in cameras. The tests show the average write speed during continuous shooting. The results of all cameras tested with the card are shown in the table below. The table is automatically updated when the card is tested in additional cameras.
Verbatim Pro Plus V30 64GB Tested in Camera | Write Speed (MB/s) |
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Canon EOS R | 65.6 |
Fuji X-T3 | 64.7 |
Nikon Coolpix P1000 | 33.3 |
Cameras tested with this card: Canon EOS R, Fuji X-T3, Nikon Coolpix P1000
The following table contains information encoded in the SD card.
Verbatim Pro Plus V30 64GB SD — Internal Card Information | |
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Serial number (PSN) | 20534163 |
Product Name (PNM) | SD64G |
Product Revision | 5.0 |
Manufacturer ID (MID) | 0x000027 |
OEM ID (OID) | PH |
Manufacture Date (MDT) | 01/2018 |
Total capacity | 64,172,851,200 bytes |
The internal card register shows this Pro Plus card was produced in January 2018. The OEM ID PH indicates that Phison is the OEM for the card.
Compare prices on the Verbatim Pro Plus card. The lowest prices are highlighted in the table below. Prices are updated daily.
Card | Size GB | Lowest $ / GB | Prices | ||
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Amazon | B&H Photo | Adorama | |||
Verbatim Pro Plus V30 32GB | 32 | $1.02 | $32.51 | ||
Verbatim Pro Plus V30 64GB | 64 | $0.41 | $26.29 | ||
Verbatim Pro Plus V30 128GB | 128 | $0.44 | $56.33 | ||
Verbatim Pro Plus V30 256GB | 256 | $0.18 | $46.43 |