Transcend USB 3.0 Super Speed Multi-Card Reader for SD/SDHC/SDXC/MS/CF Cards (TS-RDF8K),Black

My old compact flash card reader died, and after a lot of research, I settled on this Transcend brand multi-card reader. It works very well, is easy to insert the cards, and has a nice blue light that is illuminated when a card has been inserted. My only caveat? The cord is very short. Maybe a foot or so long. But for most people who are using laptops anyways, that would be a non-issue. I just have it plugged into my desktop tower, so it sits on top of the tower -- no big deal. PROS: small + compact reads lots of different media blue light illuminates when card is inserted USB 3.0 quick transfer speed lower price than key brands CONS: probably not AS fast as top brand pro level readers short USB cord can limit your placement Overall, I'm really happy with this product. It was worth the savings to go with this reader over a pro level card reader that boasted even faster speeds -- because I'm not transferring thousands of images on a daily basis.

I wanted a USB 3.0 card reader that's capable of taking advantage of the UHS-1 controllers built into the latest memory cards. While my current SIIG and Lexar USB 3.0 readers are pretty good, technology marches on and it's important to keep up, if only to save time during transfers of large files. After getting the reader, I tested it with my Windows 8.1 system that has built-in USB 3.0 ports(a Lenovo laptop). And boy does this card reader deliver the speed. With my Transcend U3 speed capable cards, I got write speeds of 59 to 60 MB/sec, exactly as claimed, through this card reader. Even with older U1 speed cards, it was writing to them at 36-37 MB/sec steadily, sufficient to actually meet the U3 speed specification of 30 MB/sec. Read speeds were ridiculous in triple digits. I could move a 1 gig file so fast off the card that it was too quick to notice--less than 5 seconds. In brief, this card reader works well, delivers the speeds claimed, and is easy to carry with you when you need it. It has slots for microSD, SDXC/SDHC/SD, and compact flash. Other reviews have pointed out that you cannot use the microSD and SD slots simultaneously, so please be aware of that. Otherwise, this is an excellent card reader/writer that delivers exactly as advertised!

This device reads it all. We were looking for a compact flash card reader for our photography studio. We have found this one to be fast and reliable. In our search we were looking for a n item that was going USB 3.0, in this price range we didn't find too many options. We have been pleasantly surprised at the speed and quality of this product. We have only used it for transferring images from a compact flash card, so I can't comment on the quality of the other slots. The one downside of this being a USB 3.0 device is that it takes power. It is powered via the USB so you don't need to worry about it when connecting to a computer or laptop. But we were going to use it to connect via an adapter to our iPad and Samsung Tablets for quick in the field viewing of the photos we shot. This device won't work for that, we had to use our older slower card reader that wasn't 3.0. I would imagine this to be the same case for any other USB 3.0 device and a non-powered USB connection (tablets/phones/tvs, etc). So I won't hold it against this device. PROS - Compact, Fast, Reads a variety of Card Types CONS - Won't work unless you are using it with a computer or laptop because it is 3.0.

I bought this card reader to replace an Anker USB 3.0 card reader. I'm reasonably certain that the Anker card reader actually physically damaged the case of a SanDisk SD card to the point that my camera would not register the card. To be safe I just went ahead and replaced it with this Transcend unit. It works perfectly well. I've only used the full-size SD card and microSD card slots. Transfer speeds seem reasonably fine. Cards are easy to insert and remove. There's a blue LED that lights up inside the case to indicate that it's receiving power and ready to read/write. The unit is small and very lightweight. I actually think it's TOO light, it kinda slides around my desktop sometimes. It might benefit from some grippy stuff on the underside or some extra weight. My only meaningful complaint really comes from the included cable. It's USB 3.0 Type A on one end (that end for the PC) but it's super-uncommon USB 3.0 Micro B on the other end (that connects to the reader). So, if you need or want a longer cable it's not something you are likely to have laying around. I'm not certain why it couldn't be a more ubiquitous USB Type C cable that's far more common. Anyway, I find the cable to be short (18 inches long) and would prefer something longer that I could plug into the back of my PC and route up and around my desk. I might buy a replacement cable some day (they're inexpensive), but it would be nice if I could just use a USB C cable of which I have amassed a small horde.

I bought another USB 3.0 card reader recently expecting that it would be much faster than my USB 2.0 reader. I didn't do much research for the purchase and was a little surprised that the speed wasn't noticeably faster. It worked for me for a long time, but I was so confused as to why it wasn't going faster when I would download several GB of photos from my very fast Compact Flash cards. I started looking at other readers to see whether I could find something faster. I was a bit hesitant to purchase this, as I am not too familiar with the brand. Thank goodness I bought it. This reader is LIGHTNING FAST!!! I'm able to download a full 32GB Compact Flash Card (Lexar 1000X) in mere second. With my last reader, this type of job was taking more than twenty minutes. It's nice and compact and the lack of an attached cable makes it easy to fit in a small space. It's not a beautiful device but it is well-designed and highly functional. This is a HUGE improvement to my last reader

This is a great card reader! I was given a second hand Nikon CoolPix 5400 camera. We found that the proprietary software needed to download photos from the camera to the PC was really old and did not work with my system. I decided to find a card reader, and this one was perfect! It worked for the CF card. I read comments about bent pegs, so I was careful when inserting the card into the reader. I had no issues at all. It comes with a short length of cord to plug into the USB port. The length is no big deal since this doesn't really have to reach anywhere, the card reader just hangs on the end. I love that it can accommodate a wide range of card types. I was actually very surprised at how fast it downloaded the large size photos I took. This was a great purchase! I got my Olympus working again (had a lens malfunction), but I still intend to keep the memory card reader because it's very handy to have around. Anyone who deals with memory cards and computers should have one!

Pros : Very fast reader (and as Robert points out below, it writes as well) Multiple LUN Can connect micro SD without adapter Supports UHS-I for SD and UDMA 7 for CF Supports SDXC Detachable USB cable (easier to pack for traveling) Cons : Supplied cable is rather short Cannot access SD and micro SD at the same time No rubber feet to prevent it from sliding SD / micro SD slot not spring loaded, no eject button on CF slot If you're buying a fast SD or CF card, and if your system has USB 3.0 ports, you should get a fast reader. This one worked well for me, and it is significantly cheaper than SanDisk's reader. There are 2 versions of this : TS-RDF8K and TS-RDF8W. I'm not sure what are the differences other than the color (K = black, W = white), I received the TS-RDF8K. There are 2 different firmware files on Transcend's website, one for each version. The reader is fairly thick but very compact. The reader comes with a 3' long USB 3.0 cable. The length is rather short, as my computer is on the floor, and the USB 3.0 ports are at the back of the case. The reader has a USB 3.0 micro B port so you can easily replace this with a longer cable if you need to. I tested this on my desktop, an Intel i7-920 running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit, USB 3.0 provided by an add on card (NEC chipset). I do not have a Windows 7 system with USB 3.0 ports to test this on, unfortunately. (Edit 11/12/13 : I've been using this under Windows 7 Pro for over a year now. It works, most of the time. Occasionally the computer would not detect the card reader when I plug it in. This appears to be a problem with my USB 3.0 PCI Express card or driver, and not this card reader - it wouldn't detect another card reader connected to USB 3.0, and it will detect this card reader when I connect it to a USB 2.0 port.) Immediately after connecting the reader, I ran the firmware update utility. All this went uneventfully. After flashing the firmware, I disconnected, and reconnected the reader. The reader is a multi-LUN reader. This means that it appears as 3 different drives - one each for SD, CF, and Memory stick. I did not test with memory stick as I did not have any. There's a slot for micro SD (so you don't need an adapter) but you can't use both SD and micro SD at the same time. You can, however, copy between SD and CF, though I don't think that's a very useful scenario. I used h2testw for my testing. This ensures that I can read and write to memory cards through my card reader. First I tested a Kingston 133x compact flash card. It only showed a small improvement of 1 MB/s over my USB 2.0 reader. I was surprised - I didn't expect any improvement. Next I tested with SanDisk Extreme 32GB 45MB/s SDHC Flash Memory Card SDSDX-032G-X46,Black and SanDisk 32GB Extreme Pro CF memory card - UDMA 90MB/s 600x (SDCFXP-032G-A91, US Retail Package) . The SD card is listed as UHS-I compliant, and the CF card as UDMA 7. The Extreme SD card measured 34.8 MB/s write and 40.7 MB/s read. On my USB 2.0 reader, I could only get slightly under 20 MB/s read. About half the speed. The Extreme Pro CF card measured 63.2 MB/s write and 84.3 MB/s read. My USB 2.0 reader only managed 23 MB/s read. In other words, it is almost 4x faster tham my USB 2.0 reader, and can download an entire 32GB card in around 6 minutes, compared to around 20 minutes with my USB 2.0 reader. I didn't encounter any problems booting up my system with the card reader attached. The reader has functioned flawlessly so far. I'm definitely happy with this purchase, which will save me much time when downloading photos.

When I first started using the Transcend USB 3 multi-card reader, it did as advertised and I loved it. It's nice and small, bus powered, and allows me to use my many cards without having to buy different adaptors. Everything was wonderful in my little digital world. Transferring RAW video files from my 5D Mark III's was just as easy as eating pie after a thanksgiving meal. So, why give it only a 1 star rating? My wonderful relationship with my trusted Transcend card reader started to hit the rocks shortly after getting it. Within a month I started noticing line glitches randomly appearing in my video files. My first thoughts were not to blame the card reader, but made me believe my cards were to blame. So, I reformatted the cards but still had the same issue. 'Maybe they are faulty', I told myself. After ordering some pricy new CF and SD cards via Amazing, I was off to shoot my next adventure. Feeling happy and confident with my new expensive cards, I came back to my trusty card reader only to find those pesky glitches were on the new adventure videos I just shot..."Curses, my troubleshooting skills took me down the wrong path!" I told myself. It must be something wrong with the camera itself. At that point I had used it for the better part of a year and a half in rather warm/hot conditions. Or maybe it was MagicLantern causing the problem. Spent time troubleshooting with MagicLantern, and the 5D with no solution in store. "F&*k!" I shouted towards my computer screen, and learned that I might have damaged something in my expensive camera. So, I got onto Amazon and ordered another 5D, and thought that would at least give me a backup camera for photo/video shoots. Another adventure filmed and guess what...ANOTHER GLITCH. These things are spreading worse than an STD at Texas Tech University. With the STD getting worse, I than hit message boards and various companies to find whats going on. No one had an answer for me. As I sit in front of my editor, digitally removing these STDs from my adventure videos, I began cursing working on videos in the first place. (Editing out these glitches are a pain in the ass) As much as I tried pushing away from video projects, more and more kept coming to me, so this had to be fixed. Back to troubleshooting mode! I spoke with a fellow Canon video shooter, and he asked if I had checked the pins in my card reader. "Of course, I responded. But I shall check again for kicks and giggles!" No bent pins in sight, however that question got me thinking. When I play the video back in camera, no glitches can be found. Yet, every computer that I transfer the videos to, suffer from the same problem...and both old and new cameras are doing it. SOMETHING ISN'T RIGHT HERE. With an evil twitch in my eye, I began looking at the once trusted card reader. "ARE YOU THE BETRAYER?!" I quickly pulled out a USB camera and connected to my 5D. "There is only one way to see who is spreading this digital disease!" I quickly retransferred a video from my latest adventure, and compared it to the same video I had transferred earlier with the card reader...What did he find, you may be asking yourself? Were there glitches? Did the STDs make its way into the USB cable? Nay, Nay. There were no glitches at all. None to be found. MY trusted multi-card reader was causing the problem all along. It was corrupting not only the files from my CF cards, but my SD cards as well. If you have experienced issues with your video projects, don't make the mistake like I did. I trusted this horrible card reader for far too long, and I have spend an ungodly amount of hours digitally removing its mistaken.

I like it. Always Transcend UBS 3.0 is super speed reader.

Dieser Kartenleser begleitet mich jetzt schon sehr lange zu meinen Fotoworkshops und wird auch zu Hause an mehreren Rechnern eingesetzt. Bisher gab es keine Ausfälle oder Probleme damit und es konnte noch jede Speicherkarte gelesen werden, auch die sehr großen SD-Karten. Interessant ist, dass dieser Leser auch an USB-2 sehr flott ist, verglichen mit anderen USB-2 Kartenlesern die ich vorher hatte. Workshopteilnehmer, die mir beim Bildereinlesen über die Schulter schauten, meinten ein paar mal, dass ich wohl schon einen Mac mit USB-3-Ports hätte?! Das musste ich verneinen. Mein MacBookPro ist aus dem Jahre 2009 und hat nur USB-2 :) Dieser Leser nutzt die USB-2 Bandbreite aber wirklich - vorausgesetzt, die Karte selbst ist nicht zu langsam.

Works very well. I'm glad I chose this one. It has roughly doubled the speed of my cards compared with my computer's internal reader so for £10 this was a no brainer. Read speeds are about 150% (2.5x) quicker, Write speeds are about 50-60% quicker from testing the various SD and MicroSD cards that I have via USB 3.0. The faster the card, the more noticeable the difference. The really slow cards do not Write any faster than the internal reader, but the Reading is always significantly faster. It's made of plastic and very lightweight so time will tell how long it lasts but I'm quite careful with my stuff and have secured it with some sticky pads so it shouldn't get damaged. It's very compact and looks smart. The blue LED stays on all the time and flashes when the cards are in use. You can use multiple cards at the same time apart from SD and MicroSD where you can only use one (or other) at a time. Includes free file recovery software download as well - nice bonus! Not much more to say other than it does the job very well. If you're a professional you may want something even faster and more heavy duty but I think for the average home user this is all you need. I'll look out for the Transcend brand in future.

Questo lettore di memoria è davvero molto veloce e non dà alcun segno di malfunzionamento. Con una CF Sandisk da 8 GB che dichiara 60 MB/s ottengo praticamente tutti i 60 MB/s in lettura dalla memoria e 35 MB/s in scrittura. Notare che 60 MB/s è la velocità massima teorica della USB 2, ma sappiamo che in realtà è molto difficile arrivarci con un lettore USB 2. La misura è stata ottenuta copiando un file da 2.6 GB dal PC alla memoria e viceversa, espellendo la memoria dopo la scrittura, questo sia per verificare che avesse scritto realmente tutto, sia per impedire al sistema operativo di usare la RAM come cache per la successiva lettura. Ho provato anche ad importare le foto da una SD e l'importazione è stata velocissima, non l'ho misurata col cronometro ma era sicuramente molto vicina, se non uguale, al dato di targa della memoria. Insomma è molto più veloce dei lettori USB 2.0 che ho avuto finora e non dà alcun problema di interruzioni o altro (che invece con gli altri lettori ogni tanto avevo). La qualità della plastica è molto buona, il cavo è lungo 40 cm circa e grosso circa 5 mm, un ottimo Copartner AWM 20276 VW-1. Secondo me poi il connettore USB3 è più affidabile e longevo del mini USB tipico delle precedenti schede USB 2. In definitiva un ottimo rapporto qualità/prezzo. Ci sono lettori che costano meno, questo però sembra fatto per funzionare bene e per durare relativamente tanto.

Habiendo tantísimas opciones en lectores de tarjetas... más baratos y más caros. ¿Por qué elegir este? En primer lugar por fiabilidad. En general Transcend ofrece productos de muy buena calidad y con precio razonable. En mi experiencia personal he tenido desde hace años tarjetas CF, tarjetas SD, memorias RAM y Pendrives de la marca taiwanesa y nunca me han fallado. He trabajado en estudios fotográficos donde predominaban Sandisk y Lexar... y basándome en mi experiencia diría que Transcend es tan fiable como Sandisk y más que Lexar o Kingston. En segundo lugar, porque está bien terminado. Claramente mejor que los lectores baratos. Es de plástico de buena calidad. Sólido y resistente. Unicamente susceptible a rayarse. Lo puedes llevar en la bolsa del portatil o del equipo fotográfico sabiendo que no se romperá a la primera de cambio. En tercer lugar, porque es un lector rápido. Puede que no el que más (los lectores profesionales de Lexar suelen ganar en eso), pero su velocidad es acorde a lo exigible a dispositivos USB 3.0. También los hay más baratos igual de rápidos... pero también los hay que prometen serlo y en realidad no lo son... no quiero experimentos... lo que nos lleva de nuevo al punto 1, fiabilidad: he visto algún lector de tarjetas barato provocar corrupción de datos, nadie quiere eso. Sigue habiendo muchas opciones buenas... pero tengo claro que esta es una de ellas.