Kingston MobileLite Plus (MLP ) SD Card Reader USB 3.2 SDHC/SDXC UHS-II

Really fast and compact SD card reader for under £8, highly recommended.

Having tried lots of card readers and never achieved the speed - using V60 cards - that my expensive Sony card reader can achieve, it was great to find that this Kingston card reader could read V60 cards at the same speed as Sony. I've now bought 3 and all perform perfectly. The Sony reader drops to around 80 Mbps with V30 cards (e.g. Sandisk) yet the Kingston reader manages 160 Mbps with the same cards.

Arrived in good time and works well.

Ideal for connecting media cards to your laptop and desktop computer

This card reader is really fast and works as it should.Would recommend this product to anyone thinking of buying.

Owned many cheap SD readers. They are junk. This is the only SD card reader that actually works. Spec correct. Worth the extra money you have to pay.

Incredibly fast and robust.

THE GOOD:This UHS-II card reader also supports the unofficial DD208 extension to UHS-I, so you can read 8-pin cards which also support DDR208 at up to 180 MB/s. In my testing I could read such a card at 155 MB/s.It's slightly slower at reading than my other card reader, and is comparable at writing. Where I can read at 300 MB/s the same card in this reader only achieves 269 MB/s (~10% slower), and for writing it sometimes faster (e.g. 209 vs 224 MB/s), sometimes slower (280 vs 242 MB/s) when using the same card in a different reader.THE BAD:I find it hard to grip the microSD card when removing it, as my fingers don't seem to fit in the curved space provided. I have to resort to quite awkward pinching, or using a tool to help me remove it. There's no push-in/push-out clicking interface.UHS-II microSD cards get really hot when running fast - while writing this review the card I was writing to reached 138ºC. I don't think a plastic chassis is a good idea, as that doesn't allow the card to cool, and will likely reduce its useful lifespan.I'm keeping this as my backup SD card reader, since its tiny and fast, but uncomfortable to use and cheap feeling. Despite costing more than my primary SD card reader, being a bit slower, and made of plastic instead of metal.