By comparison, the Sandisk Extreme III 30MB / s Edition 8GB on the same card reader:
# H2benchw -a - 2
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Sustained transfer rate read: middle 26741.0, 25479.5 Min, Max 26936.9 [KByte / s]
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Sustained transfer rate Letter: means 17427.1, 14582.8 Min, Max 17733.6 [KByte / s]
When writing by the file system with the H2testw Hama comes to my machine on ca 8,9MB / s and Sandisk on 13,9MB / s.