Kingston USB3 Multi Card Reader Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have something very useful from Kingston actually I was about to run
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into my office and pull all the footage off of my camera and I found this on my
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desk and it's a Kingston media reader with USB 3 so I'm actually using a super
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fast SD card from Patriot in my camera
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which means that I can take advantage of faster usb3 three uh read and write
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speeds so there you go so it supports SD SDHC and SDXC compact flash M micro SD
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micro SDHC Micro SDXC M2 Ms Duo okay so
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this is all good stuff and it comes with an included super speed usb3 cable so
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why don't we open this baby up this is the fcr
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hs3 or as I will call it usb3 card
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reader CU that's what I need it to do
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fcs3 sure why not all right and it comes in that
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impossible to open style of clamshell packaging which really gets my goat but
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that's okay that's okay because I really need this right now and the timing is
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excellent so there you go that's what the unit looks like this is this is
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actually a really nice card reader check this out okay so it has kind of a glossy
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finish on the bottom it's got all your card reader things here so it's it's um
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it's angled see so you can still reach the bottom cards when you have something
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plugged into the top one that's kind of nice that looks like it might be
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activity lights or it might not hard to say or maybe the Kingston one is I don't
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know at the back we've got our usb3 interface so remember usb3
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cables while backwards compatible with
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the usb3 ports on your computer so you can oops wow just whacked the camera way
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to go lonus okay so what you can do is
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this you can plug this guy here and then
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you can plug that into a USB 2 port and it'll contact with those front four pins
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but if you plug it into a USB 3 Port there's actually five more pins at the
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back that it will make contact with and that's what's going to give you give you
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that extra power and extra transmission speed that you need for usb3 devices so
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there you have it that's my unboxing of the
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Kingston fcr hs3 USB 3 flashcard reader
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