SanDisk ImageMate 12-in-1 USB 2.0 Flash Memory Card Reader SDDR-89-A15
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of SanDisk ImageMate 12-in-1 USB 2.0 Flash Memory Card Reader SDDR-89-A15
Customer Review: Versatile Reader
Summary: 4 Stars
Works great with at least Compact Flash and MemoryStick PRO Duo (the only media I have). Only objection is the USB connector is recessed, thus requiring the included but very short cable to connect it. Standard mini-USB connectors do not fit.Customer Review: Digital Memory Card Reader
Summary: 5 Stars
Excelent product. Great quality and durability. I recomend this card reader over all others I have purchased. Customer Review: San Disk , I think it's a MUST HAVE
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought I had "reviewed" this already.
Maybe the review did not get thru.
I like it a lot, have 2 different Kodak CAmera's with different size "memory disk's on it. I find it's very helpful and I great item to have.
Customer Review: Not As Advertised
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this item to download pictures from our camera using an xD PictureCard which the advertisement cleary states is supported. You could not insert this card into the slot if your life depended on it. The slot is way too small.What gives??? It is going back.Customer Review: Totally flaky. Wouldn't buy again...
Summary: 1 Stars
I have an older version of this card reader so take that into account when you read this review but they look pretty much the same. I bought the SanDisk card reader a couple years ago to use with my compact flash cards from my digital camera. The product worked fine at first. You plug it in through a USB port and four removable drives pop up in your drive listing. You don't need to install any drivers which is really nice so it's very "plug and play" and you can easily swap the device between computers with no effort.
All was fine at first but after a few months of use the reader started getting very finicky about how the card was inserted. I had to put it in "just right." If I pushed it in too far it wouldn't register so I had to put it in "just enough" but not too much. This would cause me to have to spend some time getting it to sit just right every time I used it. Annoying but it was workable.
Then some new problems started happening. When the device would be initially plugged in sometimes the computer wouldn't pick it up so now I had to plug the device in and out of the computer in addition to doing the same with the card in the reader. Then sometimes as you're using it the drives would just disappear. Now just recently it's started being super funky with the cards that are inserted saying sometimes they're corrupted or they're not formated while the cards still work in my camera just fine. It's pretty much unusable at this point.
So I might have just gotten a bad unit with some faulty wiring or poor construction since this card reader seems to have a pretty good review here from other people. However I personally tend to be wary about other similar products of the same brand when I get a poorly constructed unit so I'm going to trash this and try out the Sony 17-in-1 Memory Card Reader ( MRW62E/S1/181 ) and see how that works.
Even if there weren't the connection problems, there are still some issues with the device in terms of its form factor that would discourage me from trying out future iterations of the device. The vertical orientation of the device makes it really wobbly and it tips over easily which is annoying. I've used other card readers at work with the horizontal orientation and while I guess they take up a little more desk space, at least they're not constantly tipping over. Also the CF cards didn't slide in very smoothly. Overall the product just feels really clumsy and cheap.
After I've tried the Sony reader out I'll try to remember to add a review for it to serve as a counter point.
*Update May 20, 2009*
"Home Movie Buff" correctly pointed out that the reader does separate from the stand so you can lay it flat and not leave it in the original "tipsy" configuration. I still wouldn't recommend the reader due to the faulty connection issues between the card and the reader mentioned above that appear after repeated use. I personally have been using a Transcend M5 Multi-Card Reader and have been very happy with it. However it seems to no longer be available. Transcend does seem to have a couple newer models which are probably worth a try.