The Basics:

The two images below show the 32GB Kingston Micro SDHC card on its own. Nothing too exciting considering it is just a tiny sliver of plastic, but on top they manage to find room to detail the brand, model, capacity, and speed class rating. The bottom of the card looks like any other Micro SDHC card, featuring not much more than eight golden contacts.



This card can be purchased with a variety of adapters (or without one all together), but our review sample simply includes a full sized SDHC card adapter, which is shown to the left of the card in the image below.



In case you are unfamiliar with adapters like this, the two images below show a quick overview of how it works. You simply slide the Micro SDHC card into the end of the SDHC card adapter until the two ends are flush. You can then insert the SDHC card in to a card reader or SDHC compatible device.



Test Configuration:

A system with the following components was used for testing in this review:

» Intel Core i7 920 quad core processor
» Cooler Master Z600 CPU cooler
» ASUS P6X58D-E LGA 1366 Intel X58 motherboard
» ASUS Radeon HD6870 1GB graphics card
» Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6Gbps hard drive
» Panasonic slim optical drive
» Nesteq EECS 700 Watt power supply
» Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit operating system
» USB flash card reader

For comparison purposes, the 32GB Kingston Micro SDHC Class 4 card was tested against an 8GB Sandisk Micro SDHC Class 2 card and a 16GB ADATA Class 6 SDHC card. With a variety of speed class ratings and one Micro SDHC card and one full sized SDHC card, it will be interesting to see how things stack up.

The benchmarks to be executed on the three cards include tests from CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64, Everest Ultimate Edition 5.30, and SiSoft Sandra Engineer Standard 2010.