MANHATTAN 80-in-1 Slim Multi-Card Reader/Writer (100762)

• Easily access media and manage content almost anywhere
• Includes slot-to-slot read/write/copy and USB mass storage capabilities
• Compatible with CompactFlash, Microdrive, Magicstor, Memory Stick, MagicGate, SecureDigital, MultiMedia, XD and TransFlash, no power supplies or adapters required
• Supports automatic card detection and data transfer speeds up to 480 Mbps
• Eliminates need for direct connection of media device to save battery power

I just bought a 32GB A-Data 533x card (Microcenter) and after putting almost 2.5-hours of video on the card Sunday from the Sony HVR-MRC1 recording unit on of my FX1000s it then took an agonizing 8+ hours (dunno for sure, I went to bed) to download the video using a 23-in-one card reader from Kingwin which up until then had been very fast for me. I hadn't really taken much of a look at the XX-in-one listings but I now am guessing that this represents the number of drivers in the firmware to handle various cards.

Once I had this Manhattan card reader (got it at Microcenter Thursday) I tested the download with the same files which I kept on the card until I had this figured. I ordered a couple readers from Amazon to check out. Now, with the 80-in-one Manhattan unit the download times were a shade more than 15 minutes for the near 2.5 hours of recorded HDV video.

This could have been really ugly. Cheers for this new card reader.

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Initial Review (used for two weeks)

Overall, I really like the size and compactness of this item, but have had some difficulties with what seems to be overheating, causing issues with reading the card. Details Below:

Pros: Compact Size, Easy to connect cards, quick file transfer, very versatile

I purchased this to take with me on destination shoots, so having a small reader that could accommodate CF cards was the goal. Of every item I could find, this seemed to be the best, with integrated cord and slim size. It's a little longer than some of my other card readers, but its about half the width and 2/3rds of the height.

Cons: Materials feel a bit cheap, Card reading issue on Windows 7

I just recently took this on a trip to Nova Scotia. After the first day of shooting, I began downloading the photos from our shoots to our netbook (Dell Inspirion Dou running Windows 7 Premium). The first card (CF 16GB Kingston) took fine and quickly downloaded about 3GB of photos. Then I put in the second card (CF 8GB Kingston) and it began to transfer, but would then give me errors (not recognizing a card was in the slot half way through transfer, or very sluggishly seeing the card). I let the device sit unconnected for about 20 minutes and tried again with partial success. After going through this process several times, I was able to download the full 3GB of data from the card. I think this was an overheating problem, as the reader did get pretty hot.

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This is a great card reader. No problems so far, but one computer wants me to download or look for a disk with some driver, the other computer does not. Both running XP. So there must be some missing driver on this other computer, that is not the card readers fault. I use it to transfer video and picture files from the computer to my game player and use it with my N-BOX multimedia player. I use a 4 port usb hub, in the nbox, and then this is in one hub. I have 3 usb sticks, two 8gb, one 4gb, and then two 8gb microSD cards in this. Plus a 2gb SD in the SD card slot on the NBOX. So that is 38gb total!!! Very happy with this card reader!

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I have had this for close to a year now. I have only used SD cards in it, but so far it has not disappointed. It was plug and play and has always worked great.

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UPSHOT: this unit is too narrow to stand up properly. In XP, it is NOT recognized stably, maybe for that reason; its too-short cord puts torque on the reader, and that makes XP recognize then de-recognize the drives. The problem is solved if I use my AmazonBasics USB (meter-long) extension cord. Or, if I plug the unit into an external USB hub. In short, something must be between the reader and the computer, modulating whatever is coming from the cord in the reader. And the reader, has to be propped up so it won't fall over. If all those conditions are met, the reader works. So this is a basic housing design flaw someone should have noticed, prior to manufacture. However, at least for the SD and micro-SD cards I tested, it works when connected to an external hub or AmazonBasics meter-long USB extender.

Another annoyance: FRUSTRATING PACKAGING: This reader's package required me cut into its middle, since it was too hard to cut anywhere else -so I cut out part of the manual, too.

So three stars, as it does work, but -2 for housing instability and too-short cord which makes XP think it needs a driver to read. It will NOT lie straight or insert easily into a netbook, on its own. I don't know if any brand of USB extension cord will work. I do know that AmazonBasics solved the recognition problem both for this reader, and for a SimpleTech external hard drive XP kept having problems 'seeing'. So that implies there is something special about AmazonBasics cords.

Thus with the extension, I could finally position the reader upright, but of course you have to move the reader, pick it up: to figure out and insert, what card to put into what slot. Which, I was only able to do, because I attached the reader to the USB extension cord. But at least it works.

It registers with four drives. It's a pistol to figure out which card goes into which slot, and how to plug that card in; be VERY careful. Another pistol, to figure out which drive is considered the one reading the disk inserted. But, at least it works.

So note to manufacturer: change the housing so that all slots are on TOP, not on the side. Then it will be stable. And, make a better cord that has tested on netbooks, since you're catering to the computer traveller. So the unit either should be made wider in a stand-up position; or, make disc slots on top, not sides.