I know there are several USB hub dongles that could be used in a similar manner, but what I’m looking for is something that occupies a single USB port and offers 3+ slots for SD and/or microSD cards, letting me browse them all from my computer. Are there any such products? I’m ok with buying off Aliexpress

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    One solution I’ve seen is using a bunch of those USB adapters and a powered multi-USB hub.

    Cheaper than StarTech.com 4-Slot SD Card Reader - USB 3.1 (10Gbps) SD Card Reader - USB-C SD Card Reader w/Support for SD 4.0, UHS-II (4SD4FCRU31C)

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      @[email protected] Yup, it’s something that’s been bothering me for a while. I have more cards than USB reader sticks, so I wanted to just get a hub or dock to read many at once.

      @[email protected] Yeah, it seems I’ll have to resort to that due to being much cheaper than getting a proper sd-reader hub, as what cmnybo linked above is way beyond what I can spend.

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    I’m surprised how few options there are out there. I tried looking using the keywords “hub”," “dock”, and even " duplicator" but couldn’t find anything. Hopefully you don’t need to resort to getting a USB hub then just using USB adapters

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        Unlikely.

        A decent single SD card reader is going to be in the $15-20 range. You want 3+ in a single package. So the price will be around 3x Plus the extra component costs needed to put them in the same package. Plus the general per-unit increase of costs for making a niche product.

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    I just use a combo of this sorta stuff, but older:

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004983673994.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005215133629.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005485443469.html

    I’ve had inbuilt readers, cards, mutlihubs and a few adapters fail and a lot of stuff that is just fussy about who it plays with. I now prefer to have a bargain bin of simple options to mcguyer from.

    There are 7-in1’s listed on Aamzon that will accept 2xsd & 2xmsd cards but can’t expose all of them at the same time, which s a shame.

    A little off topic but I also use two docks similar to this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/RSHTECH-Aluminum-Multifunction-External-Tool-Free-Black-Housing/dp/B07WNPG6KP/

    They are attached to my raspberry pi and each allows me to have several TB’s of spinning rush over 2 hdd’s, an sd card plugged in and space for more usb drives or sd cards via the mcguyer method above when needed. Maximize those usb ports :)

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    Cheapest way might be a small 4 or 8 port USB hub and a couple of packs of these.

    USB SD Card Reader for PC, 3 Packs Micro SD Card to USB Adapter, Card Reader for Camera Memory Card Reader, Wansurs Card Reader for Laptop (3 Pack USB2.0) https://a.co/d/35n6aXT)

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    I haven’t seen any microSD/SD hubs that is with multiple SD ports, but maybe you could consider a USB hub with multiple UBS slots and use separate microSD-to-USB dongles to plug into it? Those are pretty common as are hubs with 3+USB and 1-2 SD slots.

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      That’s a single slot card reader, I need something with more slots for (micro)sd cards, like a single usb stick with 4 slots for microSD cards, mounting all of them at once

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        The second link had 4 slots, but do you mean 4 slots of the same exact type?

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          do you mean 4 slots of the same exact type?

          Yes. I already have one of those multi-type/universal card readers. That is not what I’m looking for. I need something with several identical slots, either for SD or microSD cards

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            If you want it for multi write duplication. there are standalone devices like balena etcher pro, or copystars. but not much that acts like mutli pc card mounter

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    I see a number of promising results if I search the web for “multi sd card reader”. I have no specific recs though, but StarTech is pretty reliable for niche USB products and they have a 4-card reader.

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      Ends up costing 234 dollars, shipping and taxes included. Way beyond my budget