SD card readers speed differences

[@sibertiger17]

Hey bud. No need to apologize or keep explaining why you do these! Even though you're successful, you still take the time to provide practical suggestions and it's appreciated and makes you relatable. Down to earth,grounded, and real. That's why I trust you over others. Now I'm going to order that ugreen reader as mine only does 24mb/sec!

[@serenityx8927]

🇹🇹 🇩🇰 Markus apologies because he's such ah darling of ah patriot 😂 and can't help it. And Markus, he keeps explaining himself because he knows some people will never get it🤣🥴😄

[@xtremefight]

My wife and I had this discussion (not really an argument but, you know) as I was transferring her pics to the computer. She was blaming the computer but I showed her that my card reader was twice as fast as hers. She's still keeping hers as it's pink.

[@marrymeinportugal_official]

Oh, that sound like my wife... 😁

[@zteir]

🤣

[@tonyhawk6017]

😂lol

[@xjet]

Pro-tip. Not all USB ports on your computer are created equal and their (maximum potential) speed can be determined by the color of the plastic insert: Black = USB 2.0 (up to 48MB/S) Blue = USB3 3.0 (up to 500MB/S) Light-blue = USB 3.1 (up to 1GB/S) Red = USB 3.2 (up to 2GB/S) Most modern computers have USB2.0 *and* USB 3.0 ports. If you plug even the fastest card-reader in to a black (USB 2.0) port it will be limited to about 45MB/S so choose your port carefully.

[@TerriblyCinemaddict]

Don't forget USB-C which is up to 80 Gbps!

[@oienu]

@@TerriblyCinemaddict USB C is just a connector, that can be 2.0, 3.2, 4.0, TunderBolt :,D only because is USB C doesn't mean is faster, my USB C port in the back is 5Gbps but the USB A is 10Gbps

[@Finite-Tuning]

I use the "Kingston MobileLite Plus USB 3.2 SDHC/SDXC UHS-II Card Reader (MLP)", it's only $10 and reads/writes at whatever the speed of the card. I have 200 and 300mb cards, both of them hit their rated speeds using this reader. Cheers 🍻

[@avediskamakian]

You just saved me 40 minutes of my life. I was stuck waiting for almost an hour for sd card to download. Now it's less than 10 minutes. Thanks

[@chilicoke]

Markus, your Toshiba Excria is a V90 card which is USH-II. None of the readers you've shown are UHS-II, which is why you're only seeing up to ~90MBps which is UHS-I transfer speed. I'd recommand a decent quliaty USH-II reader such as Satechi which is only $20, and you should be seeing 200-300MBps on your V60/V90 cards.

[@sofiaPenxa]

Can u recomed any best readers pls tks

[@peterguava]

this issue can be bigger than u think and I m thankful that u brought this up. I found it super painful if resellers send u with your camera or lens purchase cheap SD or card readers which are just useful, if u put them right into the trash can. What a waste of plastic and resources. Perfect Video, y saludos de Costa Rica

[@russellzauner]

This is without a doubt one of the most useful channels I sub to, not just photog ones. Good practical stuff that gets a lot of mileage or corrects a serious issue for the packing space/$. One of the very few that get to the point of getting the job done with the results you were imagining in your head rather than the ones I usually get on my own. Thanks for continuing to share yourself and your production knowledge.

[@oneword3491]

ProGrade Digital makes a reader that is faster than anything else I've tried. But I have to say, I never compared as many readers as you, nor as methodically. Thanks as always for what you bring to the community.

[@ArneSaknussemm1]

Thanks from Tenerife! You're got the best no nonsense save-me-time-and-money whilst being entertaining videos😊😊😊

[@ListenHereOldMan]

super helpful, per usual, Markus! thx again! hope you're well

[@johnsaucerhunter]

Boy oh boy Mr. Markus did you ever hit the head on the nail with this episode. Besides the reader's , I've found the same symptoms of Ever-Slow-Itis to dwell in the SD-cards also.. It might say it read/writes at (insert speed here), but reality is another thing entirely. And since were talking about speeds.. when you decide to transfer and archive over the footage/shots onto a backup drive, those drives are just erratic in speeds as the Readers that you pointed out. Any way, this is why besides tuning into your informative episodes of tips and information... one needs to do some personal research on their ens. Not all things are created equal.

[@HumbertoAbed]

I own a couple of Ugreen accesroies and cables. Is a good brand. Anker is great for powerbanks, I also have twho of those. One of my last purchases was a Satechi stand for my iMac. It comes with USB A, C ports, SD and microSd readers and a headphones plugg. I got it because the looks and small footprint. Never thought much about the ports. But, to my surprise, it's really fast!! So fast I even sold my Lexar Professional Workflow. Transfering speed is super important, specially when you shoot events like weddings and come back home with 6 filled cards.

[@realnikonlover6207]

Wow! Who knew there was so much disparity in these "tools". Amazing data for us rookies. Thanks Markus. Great info. Cheers. - Jim🤩

[@HaraldEngels]

I always like your practical perspective and unbiased reviews 🙂

[@RoderickJMacdonald]

I just connect from camera to computer. I find this faster than removing the card, plugging it in to a reader, transferring, and then putting it back into the camera. Of course, I rarely have more than 10GB to transfer. Nor have I timed it to check the speed of the transfer. It helps that the camera connects via USB C.

[@tptrsn]

SUUUUPER HELPFUL, great stuff! Thanks for putting together all of this data Markus!!

[@RobertWhetton]

Best SD card reader I ever bought is my Delkin DDReader-44 USB 3. I get 260MiB/sec peak from my Transcend 700S V90's. It's also worth noting that what you're copying to will effect the speed, cheaper SSD's will fill their cache quicker, so you'll go from fast to slow in a couple of minutes.

[@SunsetArchon]

I'm liking this video a year later because you actually give a visual demonstration using the card reader you purchased. I've noticed something across the board when it comes to both descriptions of card readers on various marketplaces and the people who promote and/or review said products. While this is typically a product where you'd wanna showcase read/write speeds, that doesn't mean anything if you can't reliably insert the SD card into the device. Yes, part of that is common sense determining which way the connectors face, but it goes deeper than that. Most of these readers don't disclose ease of insertion/removal of the cards on their product page or in the review itself. A lot of reader are designed so a good amount of the card is still exposed for "easy" removal, which is a completely different source of grief for me. But readers like this take in the whole micro SD card leaving only that small edge visible. That small edge is what you have to pull it out by. Gently. Why? Because these readers don't have ports with a spring loaded ejection feature. You know, the kind you see on the back of the Nintendo Switch. And the Wii U. And the Wii... Again, I know these readers are mostly cheap, but there's still that expectation that your SD card will survive being inserted, read and/or written to, and removed. And that expectation should persist more than once or twice. Having said that, UGREEN looks to be pretty reliable when it comes to ease of insertion judging from your demonstration. I'll have to check them out later.

[@MarkusPix]

The ones I used are all spring loaded, so you just push in the micro sd and it pops out more

[@SunsetArchon]

@@MarkusPix Thank you for replying! This is just as important a feature as good read/write speeds. It really should be an industry standard.

[@FocalPoint-xh6bi]

Great info. Thanks Markus.

[@RealBesty]

Now this is worth knowing about! 👍

[@benjammal]

You got a thumbs up within the first 10 seconds. Love the intro.

[@dimensional18]

Markus, great informative video. KUDOS to your channel.

[@chriskuroda5144]

How did you know I was just haven't that problem after my last vacation. I came back with so many full memory cards, it took almost 8 hours to download the pics and videos! Some of the cards took 50 minutes each to load! I thought it was the read/write speed of the card. I never thought to check the card reader. I usually just buy the cheap ones. Not anymore...

[@H.pylori]

Very informative. Thank you. Thumbs up.

[@olafschermann1592]

I love the Sandisk readers. Combined with Sandisk extreme cards i get 170MB/s on USB3. But that only works with original cards because it is out of spec. I guess 100MB is the U1 specification. They are also tiny an exist in a regular as well as micro SD size.

[@marcinmrzyglocki]

I wonder why Kingston has not been shown in the video (only linked in the description, which seems to be skipped by some viewers), as it's so cheap, small and effective that I've got three copies - just to be sure I have at least one with me anywhere.

[@DoughboyGod]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@BIGL5683]

Nice info . Thanks

[@malmedia]

Did you check the speeds coming straight out of your camera? I usually use the USB C 3.0 cable plugged into the back of my PC straight to my camera. I don't know if it is faster or slower, but like not having to take the card out of my camera.

[@TomSidProductions]

My Kingston card reader gets about 80 mb/s transfer speed on my uhs1 cards.

[@doctorgood2007]

This is really useful thank you. This just might save me a lot of time!

[@tsbrownie]

USB ports come in different speeds. White is slow, black is faster, blue is faster still. There are other colors; I think it's yellow that's power only no data (very slow!) 😉

[@mySeaPrince_]

Also the exact type of card can make a big difference.. ie V10 or A1 etc .. It depends what type of data.

[@DouglasDoNascimento]

Thanks.

[@NghiaKTS]

I also like the Ugreen reader and have one too. The only problem is that it's a bit hot when in use, do you feel that way?

[@Marco_Chiappetta]

You are probably using an older USB 3 Gen 1 port on that system, @MarkusPix. The free card reader than came with my Kingston Canvas React V90 cards hits 240MB/s+ on my system when plugged into a USB 3.1 Gen 2 port.

[@WorldResolve]

Say I have a Beikell adapter and when I use it on my phone it turns on when my phone is booting up but once my phone is unlocked it stops being powered? Had it work in the past it just wont now and I've only had it for a month, very disappointing

[@samhuntress]

USB-C (the connector) is separate from USB 3 (the protocol) and different protocols may be used over different connectors. Any blue USB-A ports/connectors should be "superspeed" USB 3.0. The USB-C connection could be using the slower USB 2.0 protocol.

[@SianaGearz]

There are several quality grades of USB 2.0 devices, sharing the same HighSpeed signalling modes; cheaper ones top out near 22MB/s and nicer ones top out somewhere near 33MB/s, though up to just north of 40 MB/s is possible, just depending on how much time in each transmission frame they reserve to do other business. I wager a guess, we have 3 USB 2.0 HighSpeed devices in this test, though i'm not sure about one, it could conceivably be a very wonky SuperSpeed device or a very nice HighSpeed device, the white big one on the very right.

[@Fahad1999win]

I think have a problem with my SD card I updated my PC bios and everything was fine until I plugged in my sandisk pro card with a generic multifunctional adapter bought it from amazon and I used to use it for months very well, but I shocked suddenly my pc show I should Format the card! I unplug it and put it in my camera but its dead and the camera cannot read it! I tried the card in 2 cameras! Im trying to figure out whats wrong! So I try to plug my another SD card to the PC but wow its also died! I dont know whats wrong! How can I restore my files? And fix this problem? I tried to plug in another flash drive sandisk with this same (adapter) to my pc but nothing happend and the flash drive is working very well! With or without the adapter So... adapter is fine ? Is he caused this ? Or is it from my pc after the bios update ? I need help

[@mengshun]

Process of elimination and diagnostics. You have done step 1 with trying multiple cards. Next, try another card reader. If that works, could be a coincidental failure of the card reader or an incompatibility has been introduced (likely the BIOS change). Try the suspect card reader on another laptop or desktop. If it fails, the card reader is the issue. If it works, we're back to the BIOS. There is another possibility: the USB port could be misonfigured or damaged. Try another USB port on the PC with the BIOS change. If it works, you're down to the USB port. If not, then back to the card reader. In short, try different combinations to whittle down the suspects. The most likely culprits in no particular order are: BIOS upgrade, corrupted USB drivers, bad USB port, bad card reader, bad SD cards

[@dnnisamn6886]

Its normal card readers drain smartphone fastly? I had expectation to watch some movies but its the only issue for me

[@arfyness]

appreciate! over there on amazon they have usb-c / usb-3 combo one listed at "104 MBps" then they say later on "104 megabits per second" on the same device. but obviously MB is megabytes so it conflicts with itself and i couldn't find any answer that didn't seem confused itsefl, even from anker. for a 250 GB transfer that's the difference between about a half hour vs five and a half hours. so thanks for clearing that up. (it is megaBYTES for that anker device theoretical max)

[@front2427]

Good mate,ive just bought an eBay green 4 in one reader that simultaneously reads for a third of the price 6 uk pounds, thanks for the advice, amazing hair.

[@XiuHanLiao-t7w]

how about reliability and heat rather than speed?

[@好你-b4c]

Very good content Thanks for information

[@southeastnomadic]

This was very helpful!

[@aaronrivera17]

Uhs-ii cards and card reader will go above 200 MBs for reading and writing

[@chrispeden979]

ProGrade is the answer. But it also is heavily dependent upon the card. Lots of cards don’t live up to their speed claims.

[@felipeamdd]

I suspect some of my cards were damaged when someone downloaded files with a cheap and low-quality card reader.

[@johnnydee7480]

I would love to see a part 2 video with even more card readers. Like the pro-grade and the Kingston MLP. There are so many horrible readers out there that are slow. I'm looking for a 125 Mb + reader.

[@juhaaavalaakso455]

USB-C is only connector. I can be and IS often USB 2.0 Speed Rating. Many USB-C PD meaning Power Delivery cables are 2.0 data speed rating.

[@omarc4ut]

Great information. If you can help save us from waiting en extra 30 min, hell yeah, Thank you very much!

[@the8ctagon]

When you distinguished between the two form factors of connectors, what you referred to as "USB 3" was actually USB Type-C. The letter is to do with the form factor: you have the older USB Type-A, which has a larger, rectangular connector, and the more recently introduced USB Type-C, which has the smaller connector, rectangular with rounded corners. The number is generally the determining factor of the speed of data transfer, so typically e.g. USB 3.x will be faster than USB 2.x. When discussing speed of transfer, you need to pay attention to the number part of the description, not just the manufacturer.

[@WaynJul]

Thanks for the information.

[@ETylerJC]

This is a stupid question I'm sure, but I'm old and not very techy. Why would you use an SD reader placed into your computer, instead of just putting the SD card directly into the computer?

[@MarkusPix]

Compare the download speed. Sometimes it'e better.

[@RafaelOrtizPhotography]

You can also make the speed faster by having an SSD hard drive and not the traditional spinning hard drive plus you can install on the back of the computer in one of the video card slots two to four USB 3.1 or USB C input.

[@MarkusPix]

All my internal drives are 16 TB M2 SSDs

[@SianaGearz]

Spinning drives can be pretty quick at writing bulk data, as long as they're near exclusively used for this purpose. Several hundred MB/s are not out of the ordinary. The cheapest per unit of capacity SSDs come with extra dense QLC flash, which has very tiered behaviour and can get exceptionally slow. The first several hundred MB to several GB per burst can be written quickly, and then it falls into the lower speed grade of about 80MB/s sustained write speed, and especially if they are DRAMless, they can also become somewhat unresponsive to read requests. When you get nicer drives, they can sustain several hundred MB/s write speed indefinitely and don't have annoying unresponsive behaviours. So beware of lowest end SSDs if you actually need that sort of write performance.

[@feralshad0w]

amazing video!

[@jessegman1869]

Thanks man that helped alot!😊

[@bobuk5722]

Hi folks, I've had problems with Sandisk readers where I can't easily get the card back out. - there was not enough card protruding to get a grip on. I filed the plastic down a bit to make it easier.

[@janX9]

Thanks man, that was useful.

[@serenityx8927]

🇹🇹 🇩🇰 I have no understanding about any of Markus Toys 😊 📷 📹📸 and the likes 🎥 but worth the watch, and worth my time🙏👍. Awesome 😎💯🚙🚗

[@huyked]

Thank you!

[@jnhkx]

Sandisk has a proprietary card reader that can read UHS-I at 170 MBps

[@funfilm77]

I waited until the last second hoping for that chrome and white keyboard giveaway but it didn't happen. I want that thing Markus.

[@Helderhugo]

Thanks!

[@Mr31formula]

Find a fast XQD reader? Nikon d 850. Thank you for your video.

[@jamsaanich4993]

Thanks man.

[@tonyc7352]

3:41 You made a pun and didn't know it!

[@Reddylion]

Nice..

[@yep.fishing]

im pretty sure its megabits not megabytes

[@DixonLu]

Putting a UHS-II card (2 rows of pins) into a UHS-I (1 row) reader ruins lives😅

[@paristo]

Then I must kill ideologies, as I put USH-2 cards to 11 years old camera bodies. Like 64GB UHS-2 in to Olympus E-PM1. And I even swap those cards between modern bodies and old bodies middle of shoot! And I even use 256 MB SD cards on all of them...

[@oienu]

I think the problem is try to get out the data, when I'm recording I don't bother about 3 hours in the camera recording, but try to get out 79GB last night :,D and the camera doing at 10MB/s, then I went into a cheap reader ($1USD) was at 19MB/s :,D I had to wait over one hour.

[@onlymyopiniontech]

Overall Anker usually make decent stuff for the money.

[@TerriblyCinemaddict]

Obviously my comment is meant for newer cameras, but I just plug my Camera straight to the PC via USB-C, very fast, no need to deal with adapters.

[@MrIzaiah2007YT]

I'm not gonna lie. But if you shove a SD or MicroSD card that has slow read speeds into the 19MB/s SD Reader. The read and write speeds are just like how you use to load up a commodore 64 game or copy a file into a floppy disk.

[@kongking1880]

I use since years Transcend. Its about 90

[@waynefose2159]

usefull stuff

[@HamdaniOvais]

UGREEN is good brand, using cables and chargers...

[@nicksavage4763]

ESSENTIAL TO KNOW

[@MileyonDisney]

t h a n k s !

[@82fx-]

I'm transferring at 8mb currntly trasnfering 256gb😂

[@eatsimplefood]

Hallo Markus, I made a video some time ago... kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2Hbeox6hpuWj68 and found out that this "Anker PowerExpand 2-in-1 USB-C SD 4.0" will transfer with up to 161 MB/s. I think any card reader with SD 4.0 standard will probably do that but I am very happy with the Anker. I hope it will save your lots of time! Alles Liebe Mili

[@acmephotographic7874]

Markus - surprised you haven't looked into Thunderbolt 3. WWWWWay faster. You're welcome.