Kingston Technology USB3.2 Gen1 Workflow Dual-Slot microSDHC/SDXC UHS-II Card Reader

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For £20.77 ex-VAT, this Kingston dual-slot USB reader feels like a sensible “works every day” purchase for office use. The big win is practicality: it handles both microSD and SD in one small hub, so you’re not juggling adapters or swapping readers. If your team routinely pulls media off cameras, phones, drones, or SD-backed equipment for editing, backups, or evidence workflows, this kind of reader typically saves more time than it costs—especially when you don’t want to faff with fiddly card readers that fall over on first use.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it if you’re chasing absolute peak card-to-PC throughput or you’re doing heavy throughput production work. With commodity USB card readers, the bottleneck often ends up being the USB link and the card itself, so you won’t magically get “UHS-II speeds” in real life just because the reader supports it. It’s a good fit for general business/media offload, light-to-moderate volume transfers, and any IT department or studio that wants one reliable, compact reader on hand—just don’t expect it to behave like a dedicated high-speed workstation storage solution.