"The corresponding graphs for similar cards that we have evaluated before is available via the drop-down selection." I'm 2 pages into the review, and these seem to be completely MIA so far. each dropdown only has the single product under review.
DanNeely, Thanks for your note. As you might have already guessed, that text is part of our drop-down template. The plan is to add more cards to the drop-down as and when we evaluate cards. We have started off with the Lexar cards, and expect products from more vendors to be part of the bench in the near future.
In any case, to avoid confusion, I have taken off that sentence from the relevant sections.
Well, lexar has been discontinued, including all readers and cards...so if you want one of these buy it now, or conversely buyer beware...your warranty just went bye bye!
Goes to ebay, buys a £15 USB card reader, smiles as it's tiny and reads most media. Sure, it's not a speed demon, but the device above is a bit big and a bit silly.
Devices like this are aimed at professionals who have just recorded a whole wedding on a DSLR or whatever, not me or you writing the odd microsd for our raspberry pi.
Your argument could be used to say we should all use netbooks. Not speed demons, but desktops are a bit big and a bit silly.
Then they simply need the fastest SD card reader they can get.
No need to justify this crazy priced device. It's not really needed. Plus a company should really have a standard for kit/cameras. You NEED the best dslr lens for quality and the best reader, which is obvious, but the device above just seems too big
So I'm a wedding photographer, and this enables me to offload multiple cards at once while not needing to babysit each card individually. Totally worth the real estate it takes on my desk and I know many photographers that use it.
Only silly for a hobbyist, but like rtho782 said, you're not its target audience.
Probably not for home or occasional use, but for daily use when time is money it does.
Saving even a minute or two a day vs a cheap reader adds up fast if you've got a job where you're doing big transfers daily. A dollar a day makes a fully populated TB3 version break even within 2 years at that rate. Once you go beyond a mom and pop size business overhead means hourly rates are probably at least double salary due to overheads; at that point you're looking a breakeven period of months.
Funny how people who have no idea what such products are for want to chime in like they have a clue. "I wonder if the problem this ....automobile.... attempts to solve, even exists" - Horse trainer in the 1900's. For people who shoot a lot of photos/video, and need to dump multiple cards in the field quickly, this works well. While I don't have the hub, I own 2 of the SD readers and I use them EVERY time I do a shoot to quickly dump cards and then start shooting again. I can't wait for some shitty usb2.0 reader to dump 256GB of images off to my PC.
Problem: I have 4 memory cards from my shoot that I need to add info to and add extra metadata to as I save it to my PC. I don't want to do it one card at a time.
Solution: This hub and 4 readers. Add info and metadata to be applied to each photo in Photomechanic, then it saves each image from each card to a HDD on my PC along while backing up to an external drive or RAID in one action. That is a lot of time saved over a course of a year.
Cheaper and smaller solution: daisy chain individual card reader / hubs, or use multiple single card readers in a single hub. There are plenty of card readers out there that are at least as fast as this monstrosity.
So uhm. What's with the lack of articles recently? A10 deep dive, GS8 review, U11, GTX 1050/1050Ti, hell even a 2016 Macbook Pro review? iMac Pro? OnePlus 5?
Definitely.. but, as I mentioned in the concluding section, we are reviewing a product that is almost 3 years old now :) (it is in our review table for an additional reason - allowing us to evaluate memory cards from different vendors). The next iteration should bring about USB 3.1 Gen 2 (which should be more than good enough bandwidth-wise) and / or Thunderbolt 3 (which should enable daisy-chaining with other equipment)
The...I don't know what you call them, but the readers that can plug in to the dock also work on their own. I've been using an SD card one on it's own for several years, use it to use an SC card to sync some stuff between work and home, and the setup works great.
1. On the 1000x SDXC page it says "From write speeds of aroun 100 MBps, we drop down to 16 MBps."
2. The graphs in the PCMark 8 section of the CFast page seem to be flipped around. It shows that the card has much faster write speeds than read speeds, while all the other charts on the page show the opposite.
Funny how this review comes out before Micron takes the ax to Lexar and shuts down the product line, which sucks as I had gone to all Lexar products in my cameras as they are much more reliable and faster than Sandisk.
Looks like a huge massive gigantic other-repeated-words-for-big waste of space. I'll stick to my regular itty-bitty USB hubs and readers that are barely larger than the Flash cards.
I'll stick with my $82 Xiaomi USB SD card reader that also happens to have a 5" screen, octacore A53, 2GB of RAM, 4100mAH UPS and can make phone calls.
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DanNeely - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
"The corresponding graphs for similar cards that we have evaluated before is available via the drop-down selection." I'm 2 pages into the review, and these seem to be completely MIA so far. each dropdown only has the single product under review.ganeshts - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
DanNeely, Thanks for your note. As you might have already guessed, that text is part of our drop-down template. The plan is to add more cards to the drop-down as and when we evaluate cards. We have started off with the Lexar cards, and expect products from more vendors to be part of the bench in the near future.In any case, to avoid confusion, I have taken off that sentence from the relevant sections.
Sarah Terra - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - link
Well, lexar has been discontinued, including all readers and cards...so if you want one of these buy it now, or conversely buyer beware...your warranty just went bye bye!damianrobertjones - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
Goes to ebay, buys a £15 USB card reader, smiles as it's tiny and reads most media. Sure, it's not a speed demon, but the device above is a bit big and a bit silly.rtho782 - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
Devices like this are aimed at professionals who have just recorded a whole wedding on a DSLR or whatever, not me or you writing the odd microsd for our raspberry pi.Your argument could be used to say we should all use netbooks. Not speed demons, but desktops are a bit big and a bit silly.
lazarpandar - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
I actually use a raspberry pi, 5'' screen and a usb battery pack I fished out of a dumpster when im on the go. netbooks are big and a bit silly.GraXXoR - Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - link
I actually use a smartwatch for all my computing needs. Holdables are big and a bit silly.Hurr Durr - Friday, June 23, 2017 - link
>professional>records weddings
Not even students stoop that low nowadays.
damianrobertjones - Saturday, June 24, 2017 - link
Then they simply need the fastest SD card reader they can get.No need to justify this crazy priced device. It's not really needed. Plus a company should really have a standard for kit/cameras. You NEED the best dslr lens for quality and the best reader, which is obvious, but the device above just seems too big
hieuhef - Monday, June 26, 2017 - link
So I'm a wedding photographer, and this enables me to offload multiple cards at once while not needing to babysit each card individually. Totally worth the real estate it takes on my desk and I know many photographers that use it.Only silly for a hobbyist, but like rtho782 said, you're not its target audience.
petteyg359 - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - link
Or you could get four $10 card reader / hub combos that nut only are just as fast, but also daisy chain together in less space than this monstrosity.Zak - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
I wonder if the problem, this clumsy solution attempts to address, actually exists.DanNeely - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
Probably not for home or occasional use, but for daily use when time is money it does.Saving even a minute or two a day vs a cheap reader adds up fast if you've got a job where you're doing big transfers daily. A dollar a day makes a fully populated TB3 version break even within 2 years at that rate. Once you go beyond a mom and pop size business overhead means hourly rates are probably at least double salary due to overheads; at that point you're looking a breakeven period of months.
evanrich - Saturday, June 24, 2017 - link
Funny how people who have no idea what such products are for want to chime in like they have a clue. "I wonder if the problem this ....automobile.... attempts to solve, even exists" - Horse trainer in the 1900's. For people who shoot a lot of photos/video, and need to dump multiple cards in the field quickly, this works well. While I don't have the hub, I own 2 of the SD readers and I use them EVERY time I do a shoot to quickly dump cards and then start shooting again. I can't wait for some shitty usb2.0 reader to dump 256GB of images off to my PC.hieuhef - Monday, June 26, 2017 - link
Problem: I have 4 memory cards from my shoot that I need to add info to and add extra metadata to as I save it to my PC. I don't want to do it one card at a time.Solution: This hub and 4 readers. Add info and metadata to be applied to each photo in Photomechanic, then it saves each image from each card to a HDD on my PC along while backing up to an external drive or RAID in one action. That is a lot of time saved over a course of a year.
petteyg359 - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - link
Cheaper and smaller solution: daisy chain individual card reader / hubs, or use multiple single card readers in a single hub. There are plenty of card readers out there that are at least as fast as this monstrosity.RaichuPls - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
So uhm. What's with the lack of articles recently? A10 deep dive, GS8 review, U11, GTX 1050/1050Ti, hell even a 2016 Macbook Pro review? iMac Pro? OnePlus 5?fanofanand - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
They had a decently in-depth review of the new Intel chips, but I too have noticed a lack of recent content the last couple of weeks.rtho782 - Friday, June 23, 2017 - link
I'm still waiting for the GTX960 review. Any day now.evanrich - Saturday, June 24, 2017 - link
Don't exactly see you contributing any articles there yourself there bro...romrunning - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
It would be a nicer product if it supported Thunderbolt 3.romrunning - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
... and while we're at it, USB 3.1 Gen2. That would make it a more usable hub for me.ganeshts - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
Definitely.. but, as I mentioned in the concluding section, we are reviewing a product that is almost 3 years old now :) (it is in our review table for an additional reason - allowing us to evaluate memory cards from different vendors). The next iteration should bring about USB 3.1 Gen 2 (which should be more than good enough bandwidth-wise) and / or Thunderbolt 3 (which should enable daisy-chaining with other equipment)Morawka - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
adds costs and the speed is not needed unless your flashing to a RAID 5 Array of SSD'sSamus - Thursday, June 22, 2017 - link
Wow, I didn't even know something like XQD existed. That's a pretty badass format (PCIe) considering it dates back to 2010.Grammar polic3 - Friday, June 23, 2017 - link
"There product lines include memory cards, USB flash drives, card readers, and external SSDs."You should have started the sentence with "their".
ganeshts - Friday, June 23, 2017 - link
Unpardonable mistake. Not sure how that sneaked into the piece. I have changed it.Wolfpup - Friday, June 23, 2017 - link
The...I don't know what you call them, but the readers that can plug in to the dock also work on their own. I've been using an SD card one on it's own for several years, use it to use an SC card to sync some stuff between work and home, and the setup works great.cfenton - Sunday, June 25, 2017 - link
I like seeing SD card reviews.Just a few typos/errors to point out:
1. On the 1000x SDXC page it says "From write speeds of aroun 100 MBps, we drop down to 16 MBps."
2. The graphs in the PCMark 8 section of the CFast page seem to be flipped around. It shows that the card has much faster write speeds than read speeds, while all the other charts on the page show the opposite.
jonny13 - Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - link
Funny how this review comes out before Micron takes the ax to Lexar and shuts down the product line, which sucks as I had gone to all Lexar products in my cameras as they are much more reliable and faster than Sandisk.RIP Lexar
https://www.micron.com/about/blogs/2017/june/micro...
petteyg359 - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - link
Looks like a huge massive gigantic other-repeated-words-for-big waste of space. I'll stick to my regular itty-bitty USB hubs and readers that are barely larger than the Flash cards.StrangerGuy - Sunday, July 2, 2017 - link
I'll stick with my $82 Xiaomi USB SD card reader that also happens to have a 5" screen, octacore A53, 2GB of RAM, 4100mAH UPS and can make phone calls.