Review: EasyAcc USB 3.0 Card Reader

In today's world, all of our data has to be stored somewhere, and if you are into photography like myself, you probably have a mix of cards lying around. It's becoming more critical to transfer that data quickly from one medium to another.

The card reader itself has a nice finish and is very solid, though it is a tad bigger than others, but this is just a minor issue. It comes with a USB 3.0 cable which will work on any computer, Mac or PC, with a USB port (USB 3.0 is backward compatible) and does not require any drivers. It supports these card formats (which will suit 99.9% of people needs): MS, TF, M2, SD, XD, and CF. Though, another minor quibble would be a Micro-SD slot as well. To be fair, most micro-SD cards come with an SD adapter, I just don't always have mine with me.

My test set up was to take a lot of pictures on my Canon 6D in RAW mode with a 64GB Lexar SDXC 90MB/s, where most images are about 25MB apiece. In the end, I had 3.04GB of data spread across 124 files. The test was to check the time it would take to transfer all 124 files from the camera's USB port and then from the EasyAcc USB 3.0 card reader. I chose this setup, because for me, this is the most common use case. Here are the results:

From Camera: 4 minutes 25 seconds
From Card Reader: 0 minutes 50 seconds

I think one of the telling factors here is I believe the Canon 6D is only USB 2.0 compliant which would explain the speed difference. In retrospect, I'm starting to wonder how I ever got by transferring my images over the camera USB and not a card reader such as this, especially since I have had USB 3.0 for a while.

Overall, this is a great little unit and will be an integral part of my photography workflow, especially during weddings when I need to transfer pictures quickly. Recommended.