CFexpress Type B Single-Slot Memory Card Reader by ProGrade Digital | USB 4.0

Not cheap but blazingly fast. Sucks and spits those bits and bytes at up to 1GB/sec on my 2-year old laptop. Was expensive when I bought it around the time it was released but great build quality -- very solid -- and has top-rate USB cable included and thus far (8 months occassional use) , has been totally reliable.

Really works well - fast, consistent transfers from 512GB Cfexpress cards inc some v large video files. Fastest transfers are to Crucial X9 SSDs, but not much difference w thunderbolt desktop RAID. Average speed for me around 750MB/s. Speeds do not decline or plateau through large transfers unlike with the cheaper Cfexpress reader I had. Worth the extra 40 quid.

A good fast reader with thunderbolt connectivity.

Well made, good performance

SUPERB Worth the price, has a great magnet to stick it somewhereI have an M1 macbook blazing fast at 1GB a second!

The big challenge with the Apple M line up has been the lack of clarity over the ports, and the speeds they can achieve. I can confirm that this reader works at the stated speeds on an M1 and M3 chipset Mac. Previously I had been using Thunderbolt, but this USB 4 doubles the read speed with PCI 4 cards. The only trouble with these readers is they still ship them with magnets in the base, but they are simple enough to remove. Not great value for money, but in order to ingest GB of files from a high performance Cfx card then this is a must.

Build quality is amazing, and it's super fast. Works perfectly on my Mac and iPad. But it's worth noting to anyone looking to buy this for their iPhone 15 Pro, it does not work due to the lack of power available from the iPhone.

If you need to download large quantities of images in a hurry then you need to spend the extra on this Gen 4 version. I have 1 Gen 4 memory card but it even downloads images from my old Gen 2 CFExpress cards quicker than my old card reader.