Asaki wrote:

Does anyone have experience with these? Probably a dumb question, but do they support SDHC okay? That's the only bit I'm worried about.

Hi 😀
Sadly, I have no experience with these models but your questin is perfectly fine and far from dumb,
I've had got quite a few older card readers that couldn't read SDHC/SDXC cards yet.
All they could read were normal SD cards/micro SD cards of 2GB max in size.

If it's old and doesn't say "SDHC" on the box, chances are that it won't read cards larger than 2 GB. SDHC hit the market in 2006 (!), so no reader older than that is able to support them anyway.

I don't like that kind of readers (although I had one). Usually, they create one drive letter per reader (SD/CF/XD) so you end with too many drive letters (and give you some headaches if you try to boot from one of those).

I had one of those (Conceptronic) with USB / FW / Multireader and it came with 4 front plates so you could put one that matched your case. As far as I remember, it did not read SDHC cards. Also, the USB and FW wires on the panel looked the same... when I bought my 939 board I swapped them and fried the motherboard (fortunately the vendor thought it was a DOA board and gave me another free of charge).

Why not buy a USB 2 front panel extension and connect a modern USB card reader? You wont need to have all those drive letters and will be easier to get one.

Or (if you persist trying to buy through ebay) why don't you ask the vendor if it supports SDHC (or ask him for the datasheed/manual)?

derSammler wrote:

SDHC hit the market in 2006 (!), so no reader older than that is able to support them anyway.

Weird. I have a laptop from 2001 or '02, and the integrated card reader reads and writes SDHC just fine. That's the biggest reason why I'm on the fence right now.

Zup wrote:

Usually, they create one drive letter per reader (SD/CF/XD) so you end with too many drive letters...

All of the card readers I have, the drives only show up (as removable media) if there's actually a card inserted.

Zup wrote:

Why not buy a USB 2 front panel extension and connect a modern USB card reader?

Because I thought an internal reader would be classier =)

I might have a look at external ones, but there's a lot of garbage out there these days. I have a cheap one somewhere that corrupted the first card I threw at it =/ My old one stopped working a while back, and my new one only fits micro SD.

...you know what, I could've sworn this case had two 3.5" bays, but I just looked down and there's only one >_<

Thanks anyway, guys =)

A laptop is a different kind of thing. On those, it's normally possible to update the firmware of almost every component, so the card reader may work with SDHC because of an update in the past that replaced the firmware with a newer one capable of reading SDHC. Also, it makes a huge difference of how the reader is connected. You can, for example, not read partitioned CF cards using an USB card reader, but you can read them using an USB->IDE bridge and a CF adapter connected to that, since that allows raw access to the card.

You can also look for the 'inbetween' model year card readers that come with multiple faceplates. Usually they are advertised as black, but come with silver and beige faceplates in the box. I have two of them that will read SDHC, not sure about SDXC since that was more popular after 2010. I think I got them off Xoxide or Performance PC's just before 2010.

Edit: here you go: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CF-SD-MMC-SDHC-memor … 0gAAOSwdA5bSQ-Y