Review on Super Speed USB 2.0 Card Reader Adapter - Cotchear Mini for Micro SD/SDXC TF by Jon Brazil

To be honest I never realized how useful these little things are until I got one with a Raspberry Pi kit and it died on me. I went ahead and bought this one which is just perfect. The point is that the performance of these adapters is limited by the card itself, not the adapter, so it's really just a matter of hoping it lasts a while. So far, so good.