Review on Kingston Digital FCR-ML3C MobileLite Duo 3C: USB 3.1 + Type C MicroSD Card Reader by Paul Wall

The first two photos show this item and the next two show a Nekteck counterpart (also purchased here from Revain) which first used the USB A connector and then one uses USB-C connector. And the microSDXC memory card used in all four tests was a Samsung EVO Select 512GB. There isn't much of a difference, except maybe in the third figure where the Nekteck shows a slightly faster sequential write speed. Incidentally, my top two memory card readers scored low 90s and high 70s in sequential read/write tests using the same ports but with a Samsung EVO Select 256GB memory card. Also, this item gets noticeably hotter than the Nekteck, so I'm concerned that the extra heat could potentially fry the memory card or damage the connectors. Granted, the difference in temperature 'measured' by my cheap, compact, non-contact infrared thermometer (calibrated roughly to my skin temperature) is small, 5-15*F or 85*F versus 90*F-100*F Not very good for this relatively short test, but any sustained writes will certainly generate more variance as the Nekteck has better heat dissipation properties than this element. Although it is beautifully built. The Nekteck feels "cheap" in comparison. But I'm sticking with Nekteck.