Review on High-Speed Transcend TS-RDF5K USB 3.1 Card Reader for SDHC/SDXC/microSDHC/SDXC Cards - Black by Carlos Macy

I bought this card reader because I currently only have USB 2.0 which means the bottleneck when testing any high performance card is the card reader. I bought this USB 3.1 Gen 1 card reader (USB 3.2 Gen 1 as it's now called) hoping it would solve this problem. The USB ports on all my computers are 5 Gb/s (the whole USB-IF naming structure is confusing and confusing. My ports are NOW called USB 3.2 Gen 1, but used to be more commonly called USB 3.0 or USB 3.1 Gen 1). ). I don't have UHS-II cards either, so I didn't expect it to be a challenge Get a real speed reference for the more expensive UHS-1 SDHC and SDXC cards. I was wrong, high-quality UHS-1 cards (yes, UHS Class 3, but still UHS-1) will get the best out of this card reader, and the card reader is the bottleneck in the actual benchmark speed rating, which you're not Convinces benchmark and , might lead you to believe that the card is fake or false advertising (both are too common in MicroSD cards that we don't need a card reader to falsely contribute to these claims as its top speed under 100MB/s and yours is the card advertises 160MB/s (most people will assume it's a card and not a card reader since USB 3.0 claims 5Gb/s). Unfortunately, This card reader can't really compare high-end cards including my SanDisk Extreme cards (A2/V30/C10/UHS-1/U3). The card reader works at a maximum speed of 95 Mb/s. At first I thought my SanDisk card was simply overloaded and not reaching the advertised speeds. but looking back at other reviews here it seems pretty clear that this card reader runs at 95MB/s. None of those who posted test photos reported speeds over 95Mbps, so if you have high speed cards and REALLY want to see HOW FAST the maximum potential is, I would suggest looking elsewhere, this card reader can't help you. After the inconclusive results from this card reader, I purchased a Kingston MobileLite+ USB 3.2 UHS-II card reader. Although I wasn't sure it would work any better, and because some branded readers don't work well with other brands of cards, I gave it a try and can say that it actually met the advertised speed of 160 Mbps for my Sandisk Extreme card (A2/ V30/C10/UHS-1/U3). So as I suspected and now confirmed, if you are testing cards higher than 95Mbps, this card reader will NOT give you accurate results. I also verified this with a Lexar Pro 667x, which also failed the 95 Mbps on a Transcend card reader and actually beat the advertised 100 Mbps at 102 Mbps with a Kingston UHS-II card reader. If you're looking for a real speed benchmark for your high-performance UHS-I card, I recommend the UHS-II card reader. For you, then this card reader can be useful for you. I can't give this card reader a "bad" rating as it does a good job of reading cards at "normal" or "standard" speeds. It also doesn't claim to be able to read any high speeds it doesn't hit, so it's not advertised falsely, it just leaves a lot to be desired when testing really fast cards. However, it is VERY easy to use and VERY inexpensive. It gets warm, but that's to be expected with smaller card readers that are "somewhat" fast. which it doesn't reach, so it won't be falsely advertised, it just leaves a lot to be desired when testing really high-speed cards. However, it is VERY easy to use and VERY inexpensive. It gets warm, but that's to be expected with smaller card readers that are "somewhat" fast. which it doesn't achieve, so it's not falsely advertised, it just leaves a lot to be desired when testing really high-speed cards. However, it is VERY easy to use and VERY inexpensive. It gets warm, but that's to be expected with smaller card readers that are "somewhat" fast. it just leaves a lot to be desired when testing really high-speed cards. However, it is VERY easy to use and VERY inexpensive. It gets warm, but that's to be expected with smaller card readers that are "somewhat" fast. it just leaves a lot to be desired when testing really high-speed cards. However, it is VERY easy to use and VERY inexpensive. It gets warm, but that's to be expected with smaller card readers that are "somewhat" fast.