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of course our carbide air 540 high airflow cube case is great for air cooling or liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more welcome to my unboxing of the image made all-in-one USB 3 reader and writer yes it reads it writes it slices it dices and you might think that ok I'm boxing something like a card reader is sort of pointless but I'm gonna be a hundred percent truthful with you guys I needed one and you might say well why did you need one every notebook ever made has a built-in card reader and card readers aren't that expensive and you could just sort of get one well the truth of the matter is that commodity card readers the USB 2 varieties just aren't really fast enough for us these days so having something that runs off of USB 3 makes a significant difference when you're copying anywhere from you know 16 gigs to 32 gigs or more of data at a time off of cards on to something else so in order to sort of do a practical demonstration of what kind of a difference this will make we're gonna walk through the product itself which is actually kinda nice looking I like the ID here so it's got a little metal stand here that actually has some heft to it so it's got three little rubber feet on the bottom go ahead and put that wherever you want then it has three plugs on the front so we've got compact flash SD HD XC MMC if seriously is anyone still using MMC go home ms pro duo pro duo all that good stuff so memory stick if you still use those and the micro SDXC or HD or whatever you want in the top at the back you find a USB 3 micro interface which I still hate but there doesn't really seem to be any getting around it when it comes to things like external USB 3 devices that need a slim connector so in this case they wanted to go for a slim sexy form factor so that is what we end up with the bat arvo okay what I was afraid was going to be the bad news about this product is that USB 3 cables are quite bulky they do have more pins than USB 2 cables so I was worried that what was gonna happen is it was just going to tip this over but the weight of the stand on the bottom does seem to prevent that from happening so that's almost unless you put all the way to the cable behind it so there you go microSD cards these days we've got the latest SanDisk Extreme UHS of 164 gig microSD card we're going to throw that in an adapter since most notebooks don't really support like dedicated microSD slots for the most part this is why it's still handy especially for us where we're using different media such as compact flash or whatever else I'm gonna head go ahead and copy the smaller of these two files to the desktop copy and replace yep so let's go ahead and see how long it takes on USB - we're gonna see speeds in the neighborhood of around eighteen to nineteen megabytes per second maybe 20 megabytes per second sustained and so yeah there's the convenience of having the different slots and being able to plug multiple cards into them at the same time and there's also a speed advantage now this is a micro SD card if we were looking at a very high-performance full-sized SD card we'd be able to more effectively leverage the additional bandwidth that USB 3 affords us but it's just for the sake of you know doing a quick and dirty demo to show that there is a difference even with a microSD slot we're going to go ahead and plug this microSD card into our card reader which is already plugged into the PC there we go hopefully that'll get detected pretty quick we're gonna take that same file and we're gonna overwrite it again and see if we do get things going on in a bit faster here there we go so funny story when we were trying that demo before filming it we accidentally had the card reader plugged into a USB 2 port which means we were seeing exactly the same bottleneck so we were all in the well not quite the same bottleneck because it's still a better performing card reader so we were seeing around 22 23 megabytes per second and we haven't actually looked up the specs of this particular SD card because we only got it in order to demo that USB 3 is faster so we were like oh send just sent us a micro SD that's kind of weird so we didn't know it was actually going to be around 80 megabytes per second sustained reads which it turned out to be which was a very effective demo for how much faster USB 3 is so there you have it guys we're not perfect but sometimes it works out anyway like the video if you liked the video just like it if you didn't leave a comment if you were somewhere in between and as always guys don't forget to subscribe