Huawei's NM cards benchmarked, show microSD-like performance.

Huawei is pushing for a new memory card standard - NM - but is it any good? Benchmarks show that the cards perform on par with their microSD counterparts. They use the eMMC 4.5 protocol with an UHS-I U3 speed rating, promising peak read speeds of 90MB/s and sustained write speeds of 30MB/s. That's theoretical, here's what you can expect in practice based on the numbers by Hi-Tech: Read Write Maximum 74 MB/s 83 MB/s Average 70 MB/s 73 MB/s Copying a 6.7GB file took 1 minute 33 seconds, that's 72MB/s. Note that a...