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Review on πŸ’¨ High-Performance SanDisk Extreme PRO CFexpress Card Reader - SDDR-F451-GNGNN: Unleash Lightning-Fast Data Transfer Speeds by Joel Wright

Revainrating 2 out of 5

When I plugged it in, my computer automatically turned off. sadness forever.

I believe that this memory card reader caused a power surge on that particular port on the computer that caused the computer to reboot into safe mode. The screen that came up said there was a power surge. I had to restart my computer using the reset button on the front of my Falcon Northwest PC. I've just read that power surges can be a problem when connecting these Sandisk readers. After that, Adobe Bridge stopped working properly, Photoshop disappeared entirely, and Capture One had to be updated to make it work. I figured everything out but the card reader still worked but much slower than my regular Sandisk SD/CF USB reader. Obviously these things never ran at full speed, like 1700 m/s in this case, but they ran at about 100 m/s. My normal USB SD/CF reader gives me over 200 m/s with a good SD card. I will try another reader and return this one. I've been using Sandisk cards for at least fifteen years, so this isn't just Sandisk babble.

Pros
  • memory card reader
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