Mmory card reader with usb 3.0 ports

Loke · 8 Jul 2012 at 13:45

I'm looking to buy a memory card reader that can handle SD memory cards, and preferably have a couple of usb 3.0 ports.

It should be an internal card reader, with a mother board usb connection. My motherboard have spare usb 3.0 headers free to connect to.

http://www.akasa.co.uk/update.php?t...r/Hub&type_sub=Card Reader&model=AK-HC-05BKV2

Is the kind of product I'm looking for, but someone has told me that only the usb 3.0 connections use USB 3.0, while the memory card readers don't. Is there any options which does both?

-Loke

Antony101 · 8 Jul 2012 at 14:34

NZXT Aperture M is probably what you are after.

EDIT: Oh wait, that uses USB 3.0 and USB for everything else.

Loke · 8 Jul 2012 at 22:17

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FL-012-AK

Just ordered this from OcUK, it seems to be using USB 3.0 for everything.

doyll · 8 Jul 2012 at 22:40

Just found it and you beat me to it. Good find!

Surveyor · 8 Jul 2012 at 22:56

Loke said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FL-012-AK

Just ordered this from OcUK, it seems to be using USB 3.0 for everything.

It has USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 headers for the motherboard.

You'll have to see which one is used for the card reader part.

Is it going to make any difference anyway?

Aren't the fastest SD cards something like 10MB/s which is still way less than USB 2.0 speeds?

Loke · 9 Jul 2012 at 12:36

Surveyor said:
Aren't the fastest SD cards something like 10MB/s which is still way less than USB 2.0 speeds?

I didn't know that, the goal was to make transferring files a lot faster...if that's the case I might just have spent £25 to get 2 more USB 3.0 ports and a regular memory card reader

But ah well live and learn

doyll · 9 Jul 2012 at 13:12

Surveyor said:
It has USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 headers for the motherboard.

You'll have to see which one is used for the card reader part.

Is it going to make any difference anyway?

Aren't the fastest SD cards something like 10MB/s which is still way less than USB 2.0 speeds?

Speed varies depending on SD card for 5MB/s to 90MB/s or more. Not sure if they are really MB/s or Mb/s :confused:

But some SD cards are much faster than others. I remember having problems and having to spend extra to get fast ones for SLR camera years back.

Surveyor · 9 Jul 2012 at 13:40

doyll said:
Speed varies depending on SD card for 5MB/s to 90MB/s or more. Not sure if they are really MB/s or Mb/s

But some SD cards are much faster than others. I remember having problems and having to spend extra to get fast ones for SLR camera years back.

Standard SD cards are only rated at between 2 and 10MB/s depending on their class rating.

There are Ultra High Speed SD cards.

The ones OcUK sell are rated at 30-45MB/s.