Alum All-in-one Card Reader

• Sold Individually

This little card reader will accept 24+ different cards and works perfect for my needs.

Win XP, I'm still running it, I refuse to switch over just yet.

I mainly got this for use with all my SDHC Extreme III cards that I use in my camera. While I'm out shooting I tend to switch between a few different 8GB cards and it gets to be a pain to have to plug them back into the camera just to read them. As soon as I plugged this device in the computer recognized it and started installing the device automatically, always a plus when a USB device gives no issues. By the time I had my card out of my camera bag and in the device it was finished installing. Once the card was in I got the good ole pop-up screen for the folder and I was ready to start transferring files. Transfer rate seemed to be pretty fast, faster than from my camera.

For 8GB of pictures it shaved a couple minutes off of the transfer time which was quite nice.

I tested a few other card types that I have and all worked without fail.

I especially like the dedicated MicroSD slot, that's nice to have! My phone uses these and so does my sansa fuze.

Pros:

Compact very small, fits perfectly in the bay drawer that I have on my tower just for these type of things, plenty of room to spare!

Slot placement all the major cards are on the front while the lesser used Compact Flash slot is on the back (not many devices are using the huge cards anymore).

Easy to understand lights It's simple, the Blue means power to the device, Red means accessing the information...

Cons:

Only one I can come up with is that the USB plug seems to be upsidedown which really isn't a Con, just more of a funny thing to notice. I got a bit of a laugh out of it.

Really this little guy couldn't be any simpler, granted not many card readers are....

PRICE: Currently on :

They state the price should be but I notice that Amazon is selling it for a couple bucks more. That's not right. I got it for a steal almost from another source though so I'm good with my purchase.

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FEATURES: It does read SDHC cards. One of my irritations as a technology shopper is that there are a LOT of card readers on the market that claim to read SDHC cards, when in fact, they do not. This one does, and a whole lot more.

No driver disk included or needed. Well-constructed. Small in size, 3½" x 1½" x ½". Will fit in a shirt packet.

NEGATIVES: Creates 4 additional drives on your computer, whether or not there is anything in them. You have to click on each drive to figure out which one is accessing your digital card.