Review on 📱 C356 Type-C MicroSD Card Reader - USB 3.0 Super Speed, Supports MicroSDXC, MicroSDHC, MicroSD - for Windows, Mac OS X, Android - Midnight Grey by Jamie Masloski

This device pairs well with the USB-C ports on my Samsung Note 8 phone, Samsung S3 tablet and Samsung S7 plus tablet. It seems to work fine with all my microSD cards, even up to 512MB. This is especially useful if you have applications for viewing and syncing files. The two best Android apps I've found are Solid Explorer and SMBsync2. These two software tools allow you to easily copy and back up files from internal and external microSD cards on your phone and tablet (if you have them) to this device when a microSD card is inserted into the USB-C port. Just to clarify. , you need to buy this adapter plus a microSD card. There is no storage space in the adapter itself, just a slot into which cards can be inserted. A file manager like Solid Explorer is absolutely necessary to manage your data and files on Android. Only this software allows you to manually copy files when needed. With SMBsync2, you can mirror folders from internal MicroSD cards to a USB-connected folder on this device. You can initiate folder sync manually by designating one or the other as master and automatically syncing any new files, new folders, etc. You can also insert a microSD card from this adapter into a full-size SD card adapter to transfer files to and from a PC via the SD card reader slot, or use a full-size USB to SD card reader. With all these three things together, you can easily sync and move files between your Android devices and PC without using wireless networks or cloud services. So when I change files on one of my Android devices, I plug this adapter into my main microSD card, sync files/folders with SMBSync2 using the Android device as master/source, then disconnect the USB device and the main card and put it on my other devices and sync backwards there (the USB device is the master/source) to distribute all my updates in a manual scheme that doesn't use cloud storage.