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Yes this is exactly what I needed. It has a dedicated micro SD slot and an Olympus XD slot. Both not found in all similar products. It doesn't show up in My Computer as a drive. (Win 7). But when plugged into the USB port with a card installed, a window opens asking if I want to view the contents of the card. Remember this is all for around $10.00. It also comes with a short USB cord.

Does what it's supposed to. You need to be careful pluggin in anything with pins, since it's so easy to bend them, but it seems to be a flaw of the design rather than the product. Got it to replace the built in drive that'd failed since I can't be bothered right now to crack the case on my machine to replace it there. Next computer I buy, I'll be skipping the internal and just stick with an external like this, for when I need it.

I plugged this item into my computer minutes after it arrived and it works great! After reading the other reviews about the short cord I never even took the tie wrap off of the one that came with the reader, I just pulled a longer spare out of my junk drawer, stuck some Velcro tape to the bottom of the reader and a piece on the top of my desk, plugged it in and whamo, I now have a multi digital card reader conveniently at hand! :)

Everyone knows that the card readers on the computer will, if not mostly, decide to quit functioning, even though the hardware is fine. Drivers have a way of getting turned off when you need them the most.You will not go wrong with this little item. It gives so many options and is still very compact in size. Photographers, such as myself, just cannot go without them.I especially like this one as you can also use the micro cards, the ones that fit into a larger card, but this unit will accept the micro card without the larger adapter. You just can't have enough options with this one. It covers almost every card out there.

Got it 2 days ago, pulled photos off four 10-yr. old smart cards with no problem. My Olympus D-40 bought in 2002 had quit talking to my laptop which basically rendered the D-40 useless - if I couldn't get the pictures off it was no good to me. Got this little device and my D-40 is back in business. I like that it's small, very light-weight and the cable is short (so many of my devices have USB cables that are really long when they don't need to be and they just get in the way).I know it's early days yet and if I ever have any problems with this little gadget I'll update my review.

I must say I was skeptical when I ordered this, mainly because it was so cheap. I mean, how could it possibly read my older SmartMedia cards. But, low & behold, it did a great job and I will recommend it to my friends and family. Thanks for another great Amazon purchase.

It's was simple as opening the package, plugging the USB into my laptop, then sliding a mystery SD card/memory stick from an old camera into the appropriate slot. Voila! I could view the photos, edit, delete and save. I also viewed the contents of other memory sticks and I have a few more to go... so glad I got this. The price was right, it did exactly what I needed and was easy to use. Highly recommend

Seemed decent for the price, bought to solve what I perceived to be a reader problem but ended up being and issue with the Sony card, they seriously need to quit with the special snowflake cards and just use SD cards like everyone else. Anyways I digress. This worked great for other cards that I tried it with, but I can't speak on longevity because it was purchased to solve a problem that ended up not being the fault of an existing card reader.

We started looking for a card reader when our camera would no longer connect to our computer for some reason. This reader is super easy to use, just install you memory card plug it into the USB port on your computer and then find the removable drive on your computer. Click on the files you want to see or just copy the files over to your computer. I really like that it takes different types of memory cards because we have several devices that we use in the house that have different types of cards and now we don't have to use a separate device for all of them. This reader seems to work very quickly in transferring the files to my computer and has been very reliable so far. I do like that it is labeled so that you know which section to put what card you have. Overall I like this product and it has worked well for me.

A great product - we got two, to replace another brand of reader that broke. The transfer speed is excellent, the connectors fit securely. If there was one suggestion we'd make, it would be to make the connector cord longer - it is only about 7". My husband works on an adjustable computer table that he pulls up to his recliner, and the workspace isn't very large - it would be nice if the cord was longer so it would allow him to rest the product on his side table instead of on the edge of the adjustable table. All in all though, this is a fabulous product that has worked better than imagined, at a great price.

Great price, very handy, reads all of the known card formats apart from the now-extinct SmartMedia, plugs into a standard Mini-B USB cable so it's quite likely you won't even need the extra Mini-B-ended cable it comes with.

I use this card reader to edit my game camera pictures. It works very well and I don't have to worry about the size card I have from different cameras. Tronixpro shipped it quickly and in secure packaging. I would recommend it above many others I looked at and it's better than the previous one I had.

The product arrived timely new in blister pack; Package contained two parts; the reader and its cable. All I did was attach the cable to the appropriate devices and place a SD card into the appropriate slot of the reader and I was able to easily view and manage my card's stored files. The one draw back is only one card can be read by the reader at a time, but it its also fair to say about all other card readers. If there is one on the market that can read and display multiple cards at one time I would like to know about. Otherwise, this is a very good product and I recommend it.

at first I thought it was not working but then I tried another micro sd card, turns out my sd card was bad ( Beware buying any from Wish dot com) works fine for me

Works very well. I like how well it read my camera's memory card and how easy it was to get pictures downloaded from the card to my computer.The only real negative I have is that none of the slots are labeled really. They're really right on top of each other and it took me a bit to figure out where to put a regular size SD card. It didn't have it's own slot.Still, it worked rather well and I'll probably use it again in the future. I recently purchased a computer that came with an SD card reader built in. Still, I can used this with my laptop so it wasn't a waste of money.

I have several older cards for my older camera and digital voice recorder, the recorder isabout 8-9 years old but still works fine, I use it to record minutes of meetings so I can transcribe them later, most card readers and laptops don't have a slot that will reader the older meaader cards and I didn't want to just toss the recorder, it was a couple of hundred dollars when I bought it and like I said it still works fine, so this was a good option for my laptops. It gives enough flexability to read most of the older and newer media devices.

This product does what is says just fine. It simply plugged into my MacBook Pro and worked no issues, nothing to install.The only downside to this product (and the reason for one star fewer than 5) is that there are no directions! You are left to figure out how to use it on your own.Here are what I would say in terms of directions:Note on the top of the product it lists in 2 pairs the types of cards the device supports. The letters on the left of each pair indicate what the top slot on each side accepts. The lettering on the right of each pair of words indicate which cards the bottom slots on each side accept. Slightly deceiving however as the pattern does not continue within the slot. For example in the SM/XD marking it is the XM card that gets pushed into the left of the slot (bottom slot left side and left side of that slot). Also deceiving is that the cards (at least the XD one as that is all I used the device for) go in upside down not face side up as the image on this Amazon page indicates.Also not that the cards are a snug fit and go in so far into the device that only a sliver of the card is left sticking out for you to grab onto with your nail and pull it out.That said great product. Fast download - much faster than when done from my camera itself. Definitely will keep this cheap little thing handily.Hope my directions helped...

If you are a current owner please turn your reader over and read #2 on the back. Quite funny.This card reader is cheap and it feels cheap. It does the job though. I do not like however in the item photo it shows all the various cards but fails to mention or show that you will need adapters. One of the cards shown is the memory stick pro duo, which is what my camera uses. It does read it, with it slipped inside an adapter and then inside the reader. That's fine it just should be something they inform people of prior to buying.

Compact, seems to be solid (enough), versatile, handling 9 types of cards in its five slots. Seems quite a bit faster than my previous reader. My only complaint is that the cord is quite short (about 6"), which limits where I can place the reader and leave it plugged in. Another six inches would be nice. (The low price of the reader doesn't justify buying a longer cable.)

I really enjoy this item for I sometimes hire on photographers that use different cards to transfer files to me and I need to have available slots for them.Pros:-Light weight-Cheap-So far the slots I have used worksCons:-Plastic feelOverall I would recommend this product if you want someone that works thats on the cheap end.

The large CF card slot pins are EXTREMELY fragile and can easily bent. During a recent trip to Europe I inserted my CF card into the slot and bent one of the pins. I was able to straighten it out and get the reader functioning again. The devise works once connected and is quite compact for all it offers. The construction is a bit weak, so if in a packet of a camera bag that could get banged against a hard object I doubt it would withstand much. Overall it's a good flexible reader.

I have used it with my Compact Flash as well as standard size memory card, works as I anticipated. Very small, not hard to find a place for it in my camera bag. There was a personal note from the company owner and a lens/screen cloth and even arrived earlier than expected.

This product fulfills its purpose quite nicely. It does feel a little thin but it serves its purpose well. I had to read a micro sd card and I had no problem. I then had to read an SD card and again no problem.. My computer will take the cards also, but it is so hard to see the little slots in the darkness of the door that they put in front of the slots. I really like that I can put the card into this product and then plug it into the computer so I can use the light to plug in the card first. Great idea!!

Arrived as indicated and works as expected; I needed it for my XD camera card since my regular SD adapter did not accommodate. Now I have one that covers them all.

Difficult. Of course the manufacturer believes that the product is self-explanatory, but it is not. The memory card for my model (this is stated on the package, but not very obviously) has to be inserted upside down; my old server has a very hard time recognizing the device and the operations are limited. For example, even though the card was formatted, when I plug the device into my PC, it says the media has to be formatted, but then I am not allowed. For the price it will do the job so I think it is ok, I just think it should be more beginner friendly.

I like the streamlined, modern look of it, and it's smaller than other multi units I've used. My one crit is that it came with no manufacturer's info or instructions, despite being shipped by Amazon fulfillment. It lit up when plugged in and inserted with a micro SD card, but my computer would not recognize it. I suspect it might be that my computer is just old, but as far as I could tell from online searching it's supposed to be plug & play. I ended up returning it. I think if it came with some kind of instructions or product info, I may have been able to figure it out better.

The seller was right on task with the fast delivery. The ad said I saved over $1,158.04 on this item. I paid, $11.95 with free shipping. Great deal I thought! Opened it up and it's made of cheap plastic and metal. DEFINATELY NOT worth over $1,100! But if it works, great. The problem I had was it came with no instructions. I had to look up YouTube to see how to use it. I am having problems with it, when I plugged it in, it's suppose to show an icon on my computer and it doesn't. Don't know if I"M doing something wrong or if something is wrong with the item. I'm getting a IT person here to help me first before I send it back. It's exactly what I needed, now to see if it works! Keeping my fingers crossed, it's just something on my part!! :)

I found that I had to insert my media card in upside down to get it to work. The device downloaded the images as promised, however, it renumbered all of the images to start over with 1, which created quite a bit of havoc with my digital photo filing system. Had it left the number of the file the same as the camera had numbered them, there wouldn't have been a problem.

I bought this product in April 2012 mainly because it worked with CF cards. I used it once a month for the first year and during the last few months, almost daily. As far as speed goes and the amount of items it works with, I give it an A. I was caution when inserting the CF card because there isn't a lot space to hold the card in. The pens eventually bent, one by one and now it will not take CF cards. I haven't used it for any other cards, so I can't say how it works for those. For the price and convenience, it is well worth it and I would probably buy it again to have for a backup. In the meantime, I still have have and will hopefully find another card to use it with.

Pluged the device in with no results. Fortunatly I had another USB cable and the device worked fine. Apparently a defective USB cable. The way I see it, what does one expect for $10 bucks. I purchased it for one reason, to read an old smartcard with pictures on it. Retrieved the pics and I'm happy...

This may be good for some people.I was using it for a xd memory card from my finpix 7000 camera which had 30 pictures on it.The first thing it asked ,me to do is format the card.COULD NOT DO THAT. I would lose all my pictures.My previous Cardmate reader which is dead and the new ones don't support xd did not ask this question.I am going to have to find another one.

This was the 2nd one I ordered for a friend and the CF card reader was having problems​ with some pins so, I sent it back and ordered another.

All in some did not work for all my media cards but it did allow me to clear several old ones and recover some old treasured photos.Still a good deal.

I tried out the SD slot with a 32GB Transcend card and it works on my Windows 10 PC. A student at my school used it for the CF card on a Mac and it worked also.*******Update:The pins on the CF reader bend too easily after a few uses.

Seems to work for the most part. Feels a little flimsy - and the CF pins bent and became useless upon my first try at reading an old CF card - but for the most part it does what it's supposed to and it's a really good choice if you happen to have XD cards to read (not as common to find XD on multi-readers these days).

I was really excited about this product, but will unfortunately be investing in a different card reader. It loads images so slowly compared to readers Ive had in the past, I tried both various cards and various programs such a iPhoto and lightroom to see if it was on my end, and in both cases it loaded much slower than normal. It works, you just have to be patient.

Not real happy with this. It turned out to be slow in reading my chips. Definitely not as good as the similar IOGear product.

I have a Hitachi Microdrive that doesn't fit in this card reader. Although it seems to have a slot with the right amount of pins, the opening is too slim to fit the Microdrive.

did not read my old card for my Olympus camera that's what I got it for did not work

I bought this to use with CF memory cards. It's the right size for my card, but the card won't insert easily. It seems to want to go in on one side, but I'm not going to force the other side, at the risk of ruining my card. It's a business purchase, so I'm keeping it. We might be able to use it, if a customer brings in a card that can be used with one of the other access areas. Inexpensive enough to not justify the return shipping, anyway. I can't recommend purchasing it, just because I don't know if this is a fluke, or a manufacturing flaw.

I tried this device on several computers. They all recognized that a USB device was there, but none of them could read the card. The quality/strength of such a cheap device is about what you would expect. The difficulty of inserting a card correlates directly with card size... the larger, the more difficult. Based upon the device not working, I cannot recommend this device

This is a good device but the symbols that show which card goes where are too small for me to read. Since IDo have 1 camera that uses dd cards I needed it for both dd and sd cards. The xd cards are a bit hard for me to insert.OuizeePS: Since I first rated this item, I've had a problem with it not reading my cards now. Have not used it since we got home from our snowbird trip out west, which was where it stopped working. In fact, it caused my computer to freeze up upon boot up. Had to use the one on the computer in the house we were renting, instead.

Cheaply made. The card reader usually gives an error message that it was not ejected properly from the computer, even when you don't touch it...it's either a cheap, defective connection cord, a poor quality reader, or both. Either way, I'm sorry I wasted my money on this product since I'm now having to buy something different.

Reads SD cards fine. But I bought it specifically to read older format cards (MemoryStick Pro - the older Sony platform) and it wouldn't recognize them when inserted. I borrowed my IT guy's Targus reader and it was able to open them right up. Disappointing in that regard. I'd buy his Targus model vs this one.

Used it several times, only to have it become very spotty a month later (after putting a card in, computer goes between recognizing it and not recognizing it). Did not treat it roughly or anything, just pooped out on me yesterday.The USB cord is very short - I replaced it with a nice, longer one and the reader works fine.

pin bent the first time I put a CF card in. I was able to bend it back but you have to be really gentle and careful with it. Very flimsy. Ok for what I needed it for, but if its something you would use all the time, not very good.

Worked with SD cards, but wouldn't read my Sony Memory Sticks (Windows 7 or 10). Got an "Edge Memory" All-in-one card reader and it read them w/out issue.

Used it with old memory cards. Honestly, ran into a bunch of issues reading the cards and not sure whether the cause was this device or the computer interface - ended up ruining 3 out of 7 cards and throwing them away because it asked to reformat blank cards, I said ok then they became unreadable!! Not sure I would recommend this because can't tell if it was card error, user error or both. One other thing - I KNOW some cards had numerous old pictures on them but when put in this device, they didn't show up in properties or on the card.

Thing looked cool but it is CHEAPLY made! Mine literally fell apart inside when I tried to insert an SD card - I mean inside the SD card slot on the unit. Plastic broke off in pieces and now it won't work anymore for an SD card (of course that is the most used card that I have)!My advice: Pay a little more and get something that doesn't fall apart when you try to use it!

From the beginning, you can tell it's a cheap gadget. It's light as a feather and made of cheap plastic. But then I realized, not only is it cheap material, but it doesn't even work. I tried to insert the card and it won't even go in.

REVISED: Very disappointed. Down loaded their driver. Computer said driver installed successfuly. Does not show up in my computer. OS: Win7/Ultimate. Does show up in computer as a disk drive. Still does not recognize my memory card. Contacted Customer Service twice. My problem with their product ignored. Do not purchase this product.

I bought this specifically for the CF slot so was unhappy when it, first, mine did not fit (4GB UDMA6 CF500X Delkin Devices). The reader had two little guides for the card's side channel so I tried filing them down. Once I got it into the reader it failed to recognize the card, which I verified as working by prior use and plugging the camera itself into my computer. I also tried an SD and micro SD card; not working. I didn't spend a lot so I'm not that fussed, just stating the facts, Ma'am. Maybe this is a dud because the other reviews I read seemed mostly happy with its performance.

Do NOT buy this card reader. It ruined 2 of my Compact Flash cards. The problem is that it has a really short insert path for the card so it's easy for the card to go in improperly aligned. You think, no big, just pull it out and try again. WRONG!I've had this card reader for 2-3 months and used it a dozen times or so without a problemBUT then this week, somehow, I bent one of the pins on the card reader and when I tried re-inserting, that bent pin somehow damaged my card. When I couldn't get my memory card into the reader, I loaded the card into my Canon camera and used it to off load the photos on the card. When I cleared the memory on my 2GB memory card, my photo count showed 24 when normally it is 108 (RAW & jpg) photos. I tested to be sure. I shot off 24 photos and sure enough, the card full warning came on. I cleared the card and tried again, still only 24 photo capacity. I checked my 4GB memory card, it now only holds 13 photos. At that point, I thought GAME OVER!The reduced photo file count signals to me that some parts of the memory card are damaged, soooooo, I can't trust those cards with my photos. NO WAY! So I dropped the card readers and memory cards in the trash. Time to buy new cards and a better card reader that won't ruin my new memory cards. Anyone have any suggestions?BUYER BEWARE!

putting the card in the CF slot was always sticky, now it doesn't work at all, and I have only had it just shy of a month. and now can't return it. Not exactly happy.

This device doesn't do a thing. I tried it on 3 computers with 2 different camera cards and nothing. It didn't show up in my finder. Like it wasn't even there. I should have heeded the many negative reviews. DON'T BUY IT. It's worthless.

Cord has already frayed and is not allowing for correct use as it shorts out and the prongs bent the FIRST time I tried to insert card. Way to flimsy ... I would not recommend this product.

I purchased this card reader 2 months ago, and it has stopped working already. I will try to contact the seller and see how their customer service is after 2 months of occasional use, even though their meager warranty is expired. Will update my review accordingly.

Could not rate it. Make sure it works with your computer. I didn't know that speed of the computer was needed to make this work. I can't use it and could not return due to wrapping.

I bought this ~8 months ago - but I'm lucky if I used it a half dozen times. I wanted it mainly for reading and writing micro sd's for a raspberry pi tiny computer I have and now it quit. And while I'm at, I don't recall ever getting the larger sd card slot to work. Spend the money and get something that isn't going to fall apart on you - that's what I'm going to do.

Don't waste your money on this piece of crap. I plugged it into the computer, it recognized the device and when I inserted a Sony Memory Stick, absoluely nothing happened.