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Review on Agile Shop Multi Function Reader Dashboard Headphone by Jairo Cunha

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Very poor quality card reader

I bought this multifunctional front panel mainly for its eSATA port and USB 3.0 ports on the front of my PC. The eSATA and USB 3.0 ports have worked flawlessly so far. However, the quality of the memory card reader is bad! All card slots I tried (CF, SD, TF) are offset. The CF and TF slots didn't work at all as my computer couldn't even recognize the inserted memory card, even though the light flashes to indicate that a memory card is inserted. When the SD card was inserted into the card reader, the memory card was detected, but Windows complained about the detected problem and had to scan/repair the drive. When Scan/Repair was selected, the scan never finished and Windows Explorer became unresponsive. The same SD card worked fine with other USB card readers. Although I get what I really need, I bought a partially working product and am therefore very disappointed. 08/29/2021: Update I'm removing another star from my original rating to an overall rating of 1 star. Because USB 3.0 ports no longer work reliably. So far the new one has worked fine. After a few months, the USB ports don't have enough power to support a USB 3.0 portable drive with a regular hard drive like the old 500GB passport drive, but the SSD drive is fine. When this drive is connected to a USB 2.0 port, it works fine, but Windows 10 does not recognize it in USB 3.0 ports. Ports 3.0 still work well with flash drives. This leads me to suspect that the USB 3.0 port is no longer delivering enough power (bad or leaking capacitor?) Perfect. Very disappointed.

Pros
  • Decent performance
Cons
  • Reliability