SilverStone FP35

Zitat: Good Things: + 12v/5V output for external storage + USB, 1394, e-SATA ports + HD audio headphone jacks + Two different colored front plates(Silver & Black) + supports most card formats + good instructions + Easy to use + High speeds Bad Things: - The FP35 could use more USB ports as it takes up a motherboard´s USB header (the FP34 has 2) - All the cables can get messy depending on where headers are placed on your motherboard - Higher price over most card readers What is the most important factor when buying a card reader aside from its features, speed. So below is a little test conducted to compare the write, read and delete speed using a 2GB Sandisk SD card with a 759MB folder in the Silverstone FP35 in my PC and in the standard multi card reader in my HP Laptop. As you can see from the graphs the write speed of the FP35 is not much faster than the HP card reader, but there is an amazing difference between the two when copying files off the SD card, roughly a 380 percent increase in speed, delete speeds are also stellar. The one thing that wasn´t recorded was the fact that the HP card reader requires more than 55%+ of the CPU cycles to copy the files off the card, and 25%+ to copy them back to the SD card, while the FP35 doesn´t require any work from the CPU, it doesn´t make the E7200 go above idle. Some of you may be wondering, well there is a massive difference between 3.4GHz (for the desktop) and 2.0GHz (for the laptop), and this is true, but the CPU frequency difference is negligible because it didn´t even require the CPU to work! Besides, I tried testing this theory but for some reason my desktop keeps Blue Screening every time I boot at stock or lower (which makes no sense to me as it runs fine with an 870MHz overclock) so I gave up on that theory. This card reader is feature rich in that it has something that not many other card readers have, 12v/5v output for external storage along with the many other features, it is easy to use because there are no drivers, and it comes with a very clear and effective instruction guide, it is very fast, and is not too expensive, though most card readers can be had for $10+ cheaper. This is a stellar product.