{"video_id":"8Y8z0if5fH8","title":"Sandisk ImageMate All-In-One USB3 Card Reader Unboxing & Speed Comparison","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2014-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":275,"segments":[{"start_s":5.759,"end_s":11.639,"text":"the Corsair carbide air 540 High airflow Cube case is great for air cooling or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.12,"end_s":15.719,"text":"liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.28,"end_s":20.96,"text":"more welcome to my unboxing of the image made all-in-one USB 3 reader and writer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.72,"end_s":25.64,"text":"yes it reads it writes it slices it dices and you might think that okay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.8,"end_s":30.519,"text":"unboxing something like a card reader is sort of pointless but I'm going to 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writes it slices it dices and you might think that okay unboxing something like a card reader is sort of pointless but I'm going to be 100% truthful with you guys I needed one and you might say well why did you need one every notebook ever made has a built-in card reader and card readers aren't that expensive and you could just sort of get one well the truth of the matter is that commodity card readers the USB 2 variety just aren't really fast enough for us these days so having something that runs off of USB 3 makes a significant difference when you're copying anywhere from you know 16 gigs to 32 gigs or more of data at a time off of cards onto something else so in order to sort of do a practical demonstration of what kind of a difference this will make we're going to walk through the product itself which is actually kind of kind of nice looking I like the ID here so it's got a little metal stand here it actually has some heft to it so it's got three little rubber feet on the bottom go ahead and put that wherever you want then it has three plugs on the front so we've got compact flash SDHC XC MMC if seriously is anyone still using MMC go home um Ms Pro Duo produo all that good stuff so memory stick if you still use those and micro SD XC or HC or whatever you want in the top at the back you find a usb3 micro interface which I still hate but there doesn't really seem to be any getting around it when it comes to things like external usb3 devices that need a slim connector so in this case they wanted to go for a slim sexy form factor so that is what we end up with the bad or well okay what I was afraid was going to be the bad news about this product is that USB 3 cables are quite bulky they do have more pins than usb2 cables so I was worried that what was going to happen is it was just going to tip this over but the weight of the stand on the bottom does seem to prevent that from happening so that's almost unless you put all the weight of the cable behind it so there you go micro SD cards these days we've got the latest SanDisk Extreme UHS 164 Gig micro SD card we're going to throw that in an adapter since most notebooks don't really support um like dedicated micro USD slots for the most part this is why it's still handy especially for us where we're using different media such as compact flash or whatever else I'm going to go ahead and copy the smaller of these two files to the desktop copy and replace yep so let's go ahead and see how long it takes on USB 2 we're going to see speeds in the neighborhood of around 18 to 19 megabytes per second maybe 20 megabytes per second sustained and so yeah there's the convenience of having the different slots and being able to plug multiple Cards into them at the same time and there's also a speed advantage now this is a Micro SD card if we were looking at a very high performance full-sized SD card we'd be able to more effectively leverage the additional bandwidth that usb3 affords us but it's just for the sake of you know doing a quick and dirty demo to show that there is a difference even with a Micro SD slot we're going to go ahead and plug this micro SD card into our card reader which is already plugged into the PC there we go hopefully that'll get detected pretty quick we're going to take that same file and we're going to overwrite it again and see if we do get things going on a little bit faster here there we go so funny story when we were trying that demo before filming it we accidentally had the card reader plugged into a USB 2 Port which means we were seeing exactly the same bottleneck so we were well not quite the same bottleneck because it's still a better performing card reader so we were seeing around 22 23 megabytes per second and we hadn't actually looked up the specs of this particular SD card because we only got it in order to demo that USB 3 is faster so we were like oh sand disc sent us a Micro SD that's kind of weird so we didn't know it was actually going to be around 80 megabytes per second sustained reads which it turned out to be which was a very effective demo for how much faster USB 3 is so there you have it guys we're not perfect but sometimes it works out anyway like the video if you liked the video dislike it if you didn't leave a comment if you were somewhere in between and as always guys don't forget to subscribe he"}