Having never heard of Komputerbay before and given that there were only a couple of reviews for this same (presumably) card but without the included USB 2.0 Reader ... I decided to take a punt and buy this at the same time as buying a shiny new
Nikon Coolpix L22 Digital Camera and some of these
Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA [6 For 4 Pack] batteries.
First off, top marks for a super-fast delivery service. At the time of writing, these items could still have been stuck in a sorting office somewhere but instead, they're 3 days earlier than the delivery estimate. Perhaps someone's recently put a rocket up the Post Office staff lol
Ok, test 1 - inserted the card into the dedicated card reader slot on my Compaq Mini 110c-1120SA Notebook and checked the properties of the new drive that popped up in My Computer to find a "Removable Disk" with 31,991,955,456 bytes (29.7GB) which is near enough when allowing for a little bit of space taken up by the formatting overhead and the fact that Windows reports size in gigabytes by dividing the total capacity in bytes by 1073741824. Sisoft Sandra reports the capacity as 29.81
Test 2 - launched HD Tune to test transfer speed ... reported as Min 13.8MB/s & Max 15.2MB/s so no problem there. Popped the card into the supplied card reader and shoved that into a USB port and got almost identical results so no problem with the reader there :D
Test 3 - popped the card into the new Nikon Coolpix camera and went to format ... finished formatting in about 20 to 30 seconds. Pointed camera out of window and fired off a shot then removed the card and put it back into the integrated reader slot. Still FAT32 but camera format had added a couple of folders and some kind of hidden configuration file. Dragged and dropped the first picture from the card to the desktop and it transfered almost instantly. No problem :D
Last test - Dragged & dropped a 699MB AVI file onto the SD drive and it wrote to the card in about a minute. Popped card into USB reader and went to shove it into the USB slot on the front of my Sumvision Phoenix Premium DVD player (which doesn't play disks anymore) only to notice for the first time that the player already has an SD/MMC slot on the front. Expecting a failure with this as it doesn't say SDHC (High Capacity) ... sure enough - "bad card" error ... Card yanked out and shoved back into the USB reader and fire it into the USB slot on the player and BINGO ... as sure as Robert's your Mother's Brother the card contents pop up on screen much faster than any of the other memory-stick/pen-drives I've used before.
Conclusion ? ... I'm very happy with this card & reader, very happy with the high-speed delivery from Amazon and very happy with Komputerbay. 6 out of 5 stars to all concerned :D
Hope this helps someone, ttfn.