Sandisk ImageMate 5-in-1 USB 2.0 Flash Memory Card Reader SDDR-99
by SanDisk
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Customer Review: Perfect... as long as you connect it to USB 2.0
Summary: 5 Stars
I got fed up of waiting for my camera to upload pictures into the computer (an iMac with 3 built in USB 2.0 ports). So, after some browsing, picked this card reader.
I use it to transfer SD Card contents from my digital camera to iPhoto. It works flawlessly. You insert the SD Card, the drive appears mounted on the Desktop, iPhoto launches and asks if you want to download the new content (pictures and movies). The transfer is super fast. What used to take over one hour before is taking a few minutes now.
The trick is to make sure to plug the reader into one of the built in USB 2.0 connectors in the back of the computer. At first I plugged it into my (very old) USB 1.1 hub and the results were very disappointing. I ended up moving my keyboard into the hub instead. No problems.
All in all, I'm very satisfied with this product.
Customer Review: Does What I Needed
Summary: 5 Stars
I use xD camera cards and 2 gig SD cards as backup media. I had one SDDR-99 5-in-1 which worked very well, but I needed two more for other machines. All three are working as well as I could wish. If you're looking for a card reader and the SDDR-99 handles your card, you can't do better.
Caveat -- If you have an older 5-in-1, the new card readers will not be recognized by the old 5-in-1 software (previously installed on all three machines) You need to install the software which comes with then new SDDR-99 and are now called 9-in-1 by the software. The old 5-in-1 plays well with the new software.
Caveat -- It is rumored (not verified) that some readers do not handle high-capacity cards, SDDR-99 goes to 2 gigs at least.
Full retail package comes with CD and USB cable.
Customer Review: Didn't work in Vista after update
Summary: 4 Stars
The reader is nice and much faster than connecting my camera to the computer. I have a 2 GB Sony card and when it's full it takes me almost 3 hours to transfer from the camera, and only 12 minutes to transfer from this reader.
I think 6 minutes per Gb is not as fast as one could expect, as it is quite far from the reader, the card or the USB port max speeds. But it could be so many things (reader, card, port, processor, operating system, drivers) that I don't know which is to blame here.
The only problem I had was that after updating my firmware in XP (as suggested by SanDisk website), I could not use the reader with Windows Vista. I called costumer service and they didn't have a solution, but they sent me a new one (with the newest firmware) which worked.
Customer Review: Not for Macs! Beware!
Summary: 1 Stars
I would love to give this product 5 stars, but, unfortunately it is not compatible with Macs. So, in all fairness, it probably doesn't deserve the one-star rating, but I wanted to try and alert Mac users to this problem. I went to the SanDisk website to download a driver, in hopes that I could remedy the problem and get the device up and running. No luck. I don't think I can return the product either because it came in "blister pack" but I'll try anyway. It really bothers me when the package of a product itself has Mac icons all over it, but then has no actual compatibility or even driver downloads.
So, nothing against the product itself. I like SanDisk for their CF and SD cards. But if you're a Mac user, keep shopping (carefully!).
Customer Review: ggrrrr....
Summary: 1 Stars
okay, so installed it, connected it, transferred some pictures from it, all was okay. then when i clicked on the icon to "safely remove" it, it kept saying that it was busy or there was an error and try again later. so i did. 2 hours later and the same thing happened. i didnt know what to do really, if i pulled it out it might mess up my SD card, if it didn't, well how am i gonna get my card? so i just pulled out the card and proceeded to removing it again, same thing happened. fed up i just pulled it out, restarted the computer and tried again. same thing! whats wrong with this stupid card reader? its gonna mess up my SD! can anyone help or tell me if they've had the same problems?