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Review on Unitek Aluminum Supports Professional Warranty by David Richardson

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Nice looking drive but a few issues

The product seems solid as it has an aluminum body and it is very easy to insert a CF card, but when connected to my computer it seems for some reason the other 2, SD and Micro SD are active and I get warnings that there is no media in those drives when I plug them in. I bought this to be able to take the CF card out of my Nikon D700 and read the images while I put the new CF card in the camera. While I easily dismiss warnings, this can be a pain. I've also noticed that if for some reason the drive is hit a little it will come loose. The CF card is still plugged in and plugged into the USB port, but the drive no longer lights up and you have to reinsert it into the USB port for it to become active again. They also claim it's USB 3.0, but the transfer speed is more like USB 2.0 when copying files as small as 3 or 4MB, so I only have to give it 3 stars for that reason.

Pros
  • USB 3.0 Multi SD CF Card Reader: Fast Data/File Access and Transfer Speed Super-Speed (5 Gps) / High-Speed (480 Mbit/s) / Full- Speed (12 Mbit / s). ) . Backwards compatible with USB 2.0 / 1.1 / 1.0
Cons
  • No instructions