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more welcome to my unboxing of the image made all-in-one USB 3 reader and writer
yes it reads it 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
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