Best CF card reader

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I am after a CF card reader and read lots of reviews on Amazon and people have said a lot of memory card readers are mot up to the job.Aparently a lot of CF cards don,t go far enough into the slot plus the fact it is easy to bend the pins.Under £15 Even the ones i was thinking about UGREEN and Sabrant people were reporting problems with them.I have other stuff by them and they are good.Or should i take a chance on buying a cheaper one?

 

[INSTG8R]

I have always used Akasa that have always been reliable but I am going purely on front panel models I have used.

 

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I have a couple of this sucker: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PBZQ0YO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Works fine. Of course nothing can prevent bent pins

 

[Greenslade]

I have always used Akasa that have always been reliable but I am going purely on front panel models I have used.

You have had no problem with bent pins when using the CF card?A lot of people in the reviews mention bent pins when using one. This is the only one that that want bend the pins Reader USB 3.0 This one is £15 make an offer second hand.

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Unitek USB Card Reader 3-Slot USB 3.0 Compact Flash Card Reader, Read 3 Cards Simultaneously, Aluminum Memory Card Adapter CF, TF, SDXC, SDHC, SD, Micro SDXC, Micro SD, Micro SDHC- 4FT​

I have decided to take a chance the Unitek one he shows in the video,It is a lot cheaper than the second hand one you can see in the picture.£8.54.

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I have a couple of this sucker: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PBZQ0YO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Works fine. Of course nothing can prevent bent pins

Yes you are right there, speaking from Experience myself.

I have a couple of this sucker: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PBZQ0YO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Works fine. Of course nothing can prevent bent pins

It was out of stock on Amazon ,i could not see it on eBay.

 

[Harlow]

My favourite device for reading Compact Flash, Secure Digital and Micro SD is the Kingston FCR-HS4 USB3.0 multi-card reader. The slot for CF cards is quite deep (at least 10mm) which makes it difficult to bend the pins inside the reader. I've been using a pair of these FCR-HS4 readers for at least 3 years and they've never let me down.

Given its age, I don't think the Kingston FCR-HS4 is UHS-II rated, but even so, ATTO disk benchmark shows a read speed of 232MB/s and write speed of 192MB/s on a 128GB Lexar x1800 UHS-II SDXC card. The claimed read speed for this SDXC card is 270MB/s in a UHS-II compatible device. My fastest CF card is a 128GB Sandisk Extreme Pro at 160MB/s (read speed). The FCR-HS4 reader is fast, which is handy when copying over 100GB of RAW+JPG files per day.

I also have a couple of Startech FCREADHCU3 card readers of the same vintage, but they sometimes stopped working when transferring files at USB3 speeds on one of my two laptops, used for daily backups when abroad. The CF slot in the Startech reader is much shallower (less than 5mm) and the pins are far more exposed. I no longer use the Startech readers.

I haven't tried any Lexar CF card readers but they should be good, given the high price.