SABRENT USB 3.0 Micro SD and SD Card Reader (CR-T2MS)

Works good has a cap

I've been using this Sabrent USB 3.0 SD card reader for 7 years and it's still working great. It's tiny and lightweight and has traveled with me in my camera bag for years. I'm going to Africa for a month and thought I should get a second one, just in case, but I don't expect to need it. They're cheap. But this thing works.

It works

Considering I got this at around 7 dollars, it was a good price. This thing is rock solid, you can rely on this not breaking. Accidentally stepping on it can cause scratches, but no-where near breaking this. Supporting up to SDXC is the standard, and they do support it. If you need an SD and Micro SD reader that can go on your lanyard or stay in your computer, this is the one to go for.

Been using this for a couple years - first to connect a micro SD card to format as a Raspberry Pi drive, and more recently to transfer images from an old digital camera's SD card. Still works as good as the day I bought it.

Sabrent PostVery, very good product for about $6, so do not hesitate to purchase them because they are so cheap. The recessed in a hole, very tiny diameter connected/activity blue LED located close to the plug end, stays on steady until a read/write activity makes it flash off/on/off at 2x/second. The cap only fits the plug end, looks overly dramatic, but it does fit very snug. I had nothing but great performance from the first one so I bought another one. They are inexpensive enough that your used-for-storage SDXC cards can have a permanent home in one, stored in your FlashDrive drawer. The full sized SD card sticking out the side means it will have to be installed first in an end port with room on the side. Also the width of the adapter's body can interfere on some twin USB port laptops with an adjacent flash drive plugged in if the FD is wider than a standard USB plug. With a 32 or 64GB SDXC card, this adapter and a USB3.0 capable motherboard you have a FAST, inexpensive, compact, reliable way to store important files locally, easily separated from your PC and/or transferred to another. Those SD cards take up very little space when stored, so using a 64GB or 128GB card for each PC (Desktop/Laptop/Netbook) disk image backup or important files makes sense. I have a 16GB SDXC card dedicated to running/installing 1.6GB Linux Mint .ISO distros via UNetBootin, which happens quick on USB3.0!! You can even use UNetBootin with the free download clonezilla, a partition and disk imaging/cloning program on the Sabrent adapter, for HDD to SSD replacements. It will only Boot diagnostic, repair, or OS installation programs from an SD card if it is run on newer computers or one's with more capabilities . . . rather than those with simplistic BIOS firmware like my old HP 17" Laptop that once had WinVista on it. I have 2 of these with 32GB SDXC cards (from Amazon) plugged into my desktop PC that is running Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 for 5+ hours/day, every day for months, using them in place of a USB portable HDD or SSD. The full sized SD card and the adapter are always cool to the touch. Essentially I have 2 inexpensive, low powered SSD's that are much easier to transport or store.

I've had one of these for a few years that I've kept as an as-needed reader for whatever machine i am using - no issues - speed has been decent and I've had no trouble with it. I got another one more recently that had the intermittent failure issue others have mentioned - my Linux (fedora) notebook makes a small clicky suodn when peripherals are disconnected, and it would connect and disconnect repeatedly, sometimes after 15 seconds, sometimes long enough that it seemed like a write or boot image would complete, only to fail.. Apparently some of these have made it through QC tests but have this problem. Support was quick to respond, asked me a few questions and sent me a replacement in less than a week after first contacting them. The new one works fine, so now I have one for home and one to take to work (and I sacrificed the failed one to the electronic fire gods).In short, there are bad batches but these folks take care of their customers. It's a good product for a great price. No regrets, I'd just recommend testing on a clean, lower-end card to confirm that you don't have the disconnect issue before moving on to regular use on critical projects.

Used it successfully for about 6 weeks before it failed. I know it cost about £3, but i would expect it to last a bit longer than 6 weeks. Total rubbish and very disappointing. Based on this i would recommend buyers think carefully before buying anything by Sabrent.

The Sabrent Superspeed USB card reader was delivered on time, well packages and in perfect condition.The reader looks good with a smart, modern design and contains slots for both standard SD and micro SD (sometimes known as TF) cards. This is perfect for me as my SLR uses SD while my action cam uses micro SD.I'm afraid I haven't completed any comparative speed tests to assess the USB 3.0 functionality but it certainly is quick enough for my needs. It was recognised by my Windows 10 laptop in sections (the reader has a small blue LED on top) and allowed me to quickly copy data from both types of card. When both types were in the reader at the same time only the microSD card data was visible, but as I prefer to use the cards separately I'm not going to hold this against the reader.My only negative is that the cap can be a bit difficult to remove.

Bought this as we also bought a scanner for old photo negatives so was very simple to use - just pull the SD card out of the scanner and into the card reader and we could upload the long-lost photos in secondsGood that not only does it read as cards, but also micro-sd too so no need for an adapterPrevious card readers have been chunky - having it just as a USB stick was a good switch as easy to carry in a pocket

My unit appears to have been faulty since day 1, the MicroSD slot corrupts any time you try to write more than a couple of megabytes at a time. The regular SD slot, with a MicroSD>SD adapter and the same MicroSD card is fine.Since others have reported similar faults (only able to use one slot at a time), I assume there's a design problem.

Great piece of kit if you use memory cards and need to transfer via USB. This does the job. I never knew Sabrent made these things but I've come to like their quality and attention to detail in just the right places.