Having high-speed SD cards is something that can help you record videos in high definition , as long as your devices are compatible. But if you don’t have a suitable reader later, when you want to transfer those videos or images to a PC to edit them, it can be an ordeal. For this reason, in this article we are going to recommend the best SD card readers (and other formats) on the market, with which you are guaranteed the best performance.
As a general rule, many notebooks come with built-in SD card readers, but these are usually quite slow and even not compatible with the latest generation SD and micro SD cards, which provide extraordinary performance. For this reason, having an external card reader is always a good idea, since in this way you will have the convenience of connecting it by USB whenever you need it and with a performance according to that of your high-speed card.
Keep in mind that in this article, since we are recommending the best SD card readers on the market, in all cases its interface is USB 3.1, so you will need to connect them to a PC or laptop that have this standard to to get the most out of them (in any case they are also compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.0)
Transcend RDF5 SD Card Readers
This card reader (also compatible with micro SD) has a portable format, and in fact the USB 3.1 connector is integrated into the device itself. It is compatible with SDHC UHS-I, SDXC UHS-I, micro SDHC UHS-I, micro SDXC UHS-I, UDMA7 CF and MSXC cards, so you will not have compatibility problems. It also offers the maximum bandwidth available for its interface, so that you can get the most out of your memory card regardless of its class.
Kingston MobileLite Plus (MLP)
This small device from Kingston also has the integrated USB connector, and in this case it is also USB 3.1 Gen 1. It offers the maximum performance with memory cards up to UHS-II, and is backward compatible with the standard.
Lexar Professional SD card readers
In this case, we are looking at a device compatible with SD and micro SD but which is “desktop”, since it has a USB cable to connect it to the PC. It offers transfer speeds of up to 312 MB / s read for UHS-II cards and up to 160 MB / s for compact flash cards.
SanDisk Extreme PRO SD UHS-II
In this case, we are looking at a card reader that has a USB-C connector (USB 3.1) and offers up to 500 MB / s transfer rate. It is compatible with all types of cards in SD format.
SONY MRW-S1
In the shape of a pen drive, this SONY card reader is specifically designed for video and digital camera memory cards. It is compatible with cards in SD, SDHC and SDXC format, offering the maximum performance available for each of them.
Lexar Multi-Card SD Card Readers
This is basically a version of the previous Lexar product that we saw but with the integrated USB connector. It has a USB 3.1 Type-A interface and has the particularity that it works simultaneously with SD and micro SD cards, even allowing content to be copied from one to the other interchangeably.
Transcend RDF9
We come to the end with this micro SD, SD and Compact Flash compatible card reader from Transcend. It is similar to the model we saw before, but in this case it is desktop, with a USB 3.1 Type-A cable to connect it to a PC.
