Over the last few years, card readers have become increasingly popular and with reason too! For those who own multiple devices which use different types of memory cards, a card reader is a must-have. Today we are going to take a look at a product that is a combination of a card reader and a USB hub because, let's face it, one can never have too many USB ports.



This card reader with a built in USB hub is advertised as 23- in -1 however, this is not exactly the case. CF (Compact Flash), CF II (Compact Flash II) and CF II ultra (Compact Flash II Ultra) are all various forms of Compact Flash and only differ in performance. The same applies with MS (Memory Stick) MS Duo (Memory Stick Duo), MS Pro (Memory Stick Pro), MS Pro Duo (Memory Stick Pro Duo) and so on, again all forms of a Memory Stick. The Brando 23- in- 1 card reader, like all multi-format readers is in fact no more than a 6 in 1 card reader (CF, MD, SD, MMC, SM, and MS) and with the addition of an adaptor SD mini and TF, an 8 in 1 card reader.