While Compact Flash (CF) and Secure Digital (SD) card capacities have drastically increased since USB 2.0 was released, the same could not be said of the card readers.
In fact, there has been in serious need of performance makeover long before USB 3.0 arrived on the scene.
With the release of the Lexar’s Professional USB 3.0 Dual-Slot Reader, our days of waiting for files to transfer from our cameras to our computers may indeed be over.
This improved Professional reader retains its predecessors dual slot, pop-up design, but in theory, it should make the tedious task of file transfer much more bearable. Exactly how much time and effort this new card reader will save you and whether or not it’s worth the upgrade cost are what I intend to find out.
Full story at Everything USB.