-Works fine with usb 3 speeds. I use it for copying off video footage in the field.
I built my wife a higher end computer. She takes a lot of photos with her Sony & her cell phone camera. I bought her this to internal multi card reader so she won't have to use the portable USB reader she used for years. I've never had any bad product from StarTech, and it held true with this card reader. The 1 USB port is very nice and handy as well. My wife has been using it almost exclusively. Easy to install. Just mount like you would a DVD burner and connect 1 cable to a USB connection on your motherboard. That's it.
Loaded up drivers VERY fast. plugged in an SD card and it opened up faster than a dedicated SD card reader built into my neighbors NEW computer.
Lots of USB and card format interfaces. Cables were long enough to reach the USB connectors furthest away from the unit on the motherboard. LED light far less irritating than I've seen on other card readers.
easy install and looks good. cables are long enough even for the most ocward of atx cases
This unit has USB 3.0 and exceeds the speed of all of my cards. I bought one to test it before gifting it to my daughter in law, who is a photographer. Having used several others to transfer high res photos of my own, I was looking for speed without errors. This things works great and was very fast. I used it for 2 months, then shipped it overseas to my daughter. She loves it, and I missed it right away, so I ordered a second. I am about to order a 3rd to add some memory to a Sony Bluray player.
With double sided foam tape it takes up a very nice spot on top of my computer and very easy to use.
Small, compact, and it reads 32gb SDHC cards just fine.
-Roughly 80MB/s write and 90MB/s read speeds according to my testing (the fastest card I tested with was a Sandisk Imagemate pro 128GB, so it is possible the bottleneck is in the card and not the reader) -I had no issues recognizing the device in Arch Linux. It appears to be a Realtek chipset with the ID 0bda:0301.
High Quality Design, uses USB 3.0 cable for motherboard port. LED's just right brightness.