Transcend RDF5 Flash Card Reader

This reader is smaller than I expected, but it works great. It is one of the few readers that supports USH-1 high speed transfers, and is less than half the price of other USH-1 readers. It is fast when used with USH-1 SD cards. No drivers to load. Card is immediately recognized when the reader is plugged in. While some might complain that it only supports SD and microSD size cards vs the many-in-one readers out there, I prefer a dedicated reader like this so I don't get lots of extra drive letters showing up in my drive list for things I will never use. I've encountered plenty of quirks with other memory card readers, but this one just works, and works well. If all you need is a reader for SD and microSD, buy this one.

This may sound odd or defeatist, but I was surprised that this item works (and has done so, reliably, for 2 months now). Most adapters/card readers/etc, regardless of the brand or lack of same, work about half the time if you're lucky. My first version, a Sandisk, was DOA and the other (unbranded) still works about every 3rd attempt. Had accepted this "problem," but then saw this one on sale, free shipping within a larger order, and with USB 3.0. And it works, every time - which is stellar considering how lousy its colleagues seem to be.

Works great, in fact it's faster than most pc's I put it in, I bought one for my kid for school, he loved it but it came up missing so I ordered both of us one. With usb 3.0 and a 64gb samsung evo micro sd 48x it can read and write faster than the hard drive in my kids pc and the school pc's have trouble reading/writing at the max speed. well i guess the face that i bought 2 more after receiving the first one should speak for itself.