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as you know my guys Kyle here with awesomesauce news today I'll be taking a look at this mighty charger card reader from inter max this is their ECR 5:01 and it's a USB 3.0 card reader which is pretty cool it also comes in a lower grade model the ECR 3:01 which doesn't have quite as many cool features as as this one does but for today I'm going to be looking at the 5:01 so here it is this is a six in one Cod Rita they're the six different card formats that it supports I'm just going to go ahead and let you guys read that for a sec I don't want to bore you with all these all these little different formats but there you have it and let's take a look at some of the main features that this device offers so for starters you've got a USB supercharge port which is actually that green port to the far left right there and this is basically for charging any device that uses USB power to charge so tablets and smartphones and things like that can be charged very quickly with this port they're claiming up to 80 percent faster than a normal USB port with with this supercharged port which is pretty cool it's also battery I think it's battery charge a USB battery charge specification compliant which is version 1.2 which means it outputs 2.4 amps which is really nice you've also got a USB 3.0 port right there and let's get back to the bottom here so the card reader ports are actually in USB 3.0 bandwidth now you would think that's pretty obvious for a USB 3.0 card reader but actually I've seen a lot of card readers that advertise themselves to be USB 3 but only the USB 3 ports are actually wired for that bandwidth and the card ports themselves are wired for USB 2 connectivity which is a real bummer and kind of misleading but that's not the case for this card reader so kudos to enter max for getting that right you've also got five just general USB 2.0 ports there but they also output 1.5 amps so if you are occupying the supercharged port you want to charge some other secondary devices you can go ahead and charge them with these USB 2.0 ports and it will actually charge quite a bit faster than a standard USB port which is also very nice and the last but not least you have a very unique feature on this card reader you can actually install two two and a half inch drives and one three and a half inch drive to the back of this thing so they're stored internally that really kind of makes this card reader a multi-purpose device that offers just a lot of different functionality for I think the 35 bucks that you pay for it currently so with that said I'm going to take it out of the box and we're going to have a closer look all right so here's everything that's included in the package first off you've got your installation guide right here pretty straightforward if you've ever installed anything inside of a five and a quarter inch Bay before I'm sure you won't really need this too much but there it is just in case we've also got some mounting screws to install the card reader itself as well as any drives that you might be installing into the card reader so there you go and here's the card reader boom there it is so it's got a nice matte black finish it kind of looks texturized it's got kind of a texturized pattern to it but it's nothing too distracting I actually personally like it it's made of plastic but it doesn't feel cheap at all it actually feels very well built it's very strong and sturdy it's thick plastic it doesn't bend or anything like that which is also very nice so here's just a look we're going to go down from left to right your supercharged port on the very left USB USB 3.0 port as well as your five USB 2.0 ports up top you have your card ports which are USB 3.0 bandwidth supported as well as an eSATA port there off to the right which is a nice touch and there's one more look at the side or you can drill in those holes or screw in those holes mounted to your five into quarter inch Bay on the flip side of the card reader you've got some cables here molex for power and sorry guys it's a little blurry because I have autofocus on since my cameraman is off for the day I'm kind of roughing it so just bear with me you got USB 3.0 of course and all these by the way plugged directly into your motherboard you've got that SATA cable for your eSATA port at the front as well as USB 2.0 so there you go and here's actually where you mount those three drives so I don't know if you can tell right here but you actually mount the two two-and-a-half inch drives at the bottom one right here and the other right next to it and just above that is where you mount that three and a half inch drive it's kind of hard to see black on black or whatever but I'm going to show you guys an installation right now and voila your drives are installed you've got your 3.5 inch drive up top here 2.5 inch drives at the bottom the 3.5 inch drive does stick out about two inches past the end of the card reader which is fairly expected card readers generally aren't that long anyway and you probably won't run into any clearance issues with any other components in your case the only thing I can think of is if you have a really small case and you have a memory stick right here that might interfere but honestly I think you should be alright especially if you use like a right-angle SATA data cable right here and for power that they're generally like ribbon style cables or they're really thin or flexible so honestly you shouldn't run into any clearance issues with having installed that 3.5 inch drive alright so I just finished installing the card reader and just as I predicted there were no clearance issues with the other components particularly the RAM as you can see there's plenty of space here even if you were to plug in your SATA cables you'd have no problem getting it all in there I did want to mention that I did install it on the lower five-minute quarter inch drive bay in the define hour for because if I'd installed on the top I'd just be a little bit more pressed for space with that radiator from the h100 I put those fans sticking out I still could have gotten it in there no problem but just for the sake of convenience and to get this video up quickly I just installed it right there to save a bit of time just something I wanted to point out and I couldn't help but test out the transfer speeds of this card reader now the speeds here are going to be largely dependent on and attributed to the x99 chipset which is controlling all this USB 3 bandwidth natively but I still wanted to test out the card readers to make sure it was working properly and whatnot so I stuck an SD card in there with a 4 gig file and was able to transfer it to the SSD on my system in about a minute and a half about a minute and 32 seconds to be exact which is a completely reasonable and acceptable speed especially if it means that I don't have to use this damn dongle all the time and it's just completely built in and ready to go that's going to actually save me a lot of headache and hassle I did want to test out the charging port the supercharge port here just to see how what all the hypes about since the enter Max's seemed to be advertising it quite a bit I'm just going to see if the claims are true and I think my phone's about to die so I'm going to test that alright so after doing the I found the supercharged port to charge my phone from 0 to 100 in about just over two hours actually which is pretty good and a regular USB 2.0 port took five and a half hours about five hours and 20 minutes to be exact and that was using the USB 2.0 port on the case the the built-in USB port there not the 1.4 amp USB 2 2.0 port on the card reader itself because that would have charged quite a bit faster so all in all if you do the math that's about two and a half times faster using the supercharged port than a standard USB 2.0 port so it's actually pretty good I think I'm going to start using the supercharged port quite a bit more now just because it's it's a lot more convenient for me to have my phone charging right next to me that I can put it on my desk as opposed to having it plugged into a wall socket somewhere and having it you know more than an arm's reach away from me so all in all a very solid card reader that does what it promises and honestly I can't think of a better way to spend thirty five bucks if you had a free five and a quarter inch bay just sitting there once again this has been the enter max ECR five zero one USB 3.0 card reader I'm Cal with awesomesauce news be sure to LIKE and favorite and until next time I'll see you in the next video you