- Supports memory card types including SD / MMC
- Supports SDXC cards
- USB 2.0 High Speed data transfer rate up to 480Mbps
- USB powered – NO external A/C adapter required
Dead after 3 months
08/21/2015
This review is from: IOGEAR GFR204SD 10-in-1 USB 2.0 SD/ MicroSD/ MMC Card Reader/ Writer (Green/ Gray)
Pros:
Had a small footprint and worked well at first. Looks neat.
Cons:
After two months of use, I found that my PC would not get past POST. After a thorough process of elimination, I found that removing this card reader would fix the issue. Other adapters and external drives worked fine. Putting this adapter back broke POST again. There were no hardware changes or BIOS updates that I can think would have led this to happen. For the first two months I could boot the PC with no issue while this reader was connected. A month after this and the reader can't read or write SD cards anymore. During extended reads/writes (more than 10 seconds), Linux will report that the USB device was disconnected and then the reader will be assigned a new device node. At first I thought it was a bad SD Card, so I grabbed another and found the same results. Then I used a different brand reader, and it resulted in much faster transfers and no disconnects. Something's definitely wrong with this reader, I'm not sure if it's a design issue or if I got a bad reader.
Manufacturer Response:
Thank you for choosing IOGEAR and we apologize for the inconvenience. To better service you and understand your set up, please feel to contact our customer support at 1-866-946-4327 or email us: support@iogear.com. Once again, thank you for choosing IOGEAR.
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- Russel K.
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