Sandisk MicroMate Reader – for SD and SDHC memory cards
- Ultra small and thin design, Designed for accessing and transferring data between a PC and memory-enabled mobile devices, TransferMate enables application launches automatically when a card with content is inserted, Includes storage cap, and mini key ring. For SD, MiniSD MicroSD
Product Description
SanDisk’s MicroMate Readers/Writers line is compact in design and dedicated to a select type of card formats. These readers are perfect as an extra set to carry around in your briefcase, purse, or on your keychain. MicroMate for SD supports SD and SDHC…. More >>
Sandisk MicroMate Reader – for SD and SDHC memory cards
Stop working and not supported in Windows Vista, and there is no any support material at the web site.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have a Dell with front USB ports that are recessed. I can’t plug it in all the way. Need to unplug a port in the back and the micromate covers up the port below it. Wish I would have know this before I bought the device.
Rating: 1 / 5
Works as expected. Very useful for computer without an up-to-date card reader that supports SDHC.
However, it is too fat it’s occupying 2 USB ports, and it doesn’t fit in my front USB port as the drive bay above it is blocking its way.
Rating: 3 / 5
Sorry.
I wanted to find that heavy duty SDHC reader for carrying in a pants pocket everywhere and anywhere without breaking open as the cheaper ones do. Some of the cheaper ones seem to be made of the same plastic they used on small toys hidden deep within boxes of breakfast cereal.
I remember over twenty years ago in the early days of personal computing when PC’s were built to last much longer than the usefulness of their electronic design (remember 16k total?). You could run a tank over the IBM 8088 PC or the Apple IIe and not even phase it.
Now we find our electronics built on the cheap and with disposable plastic cases you wouldn’t make a bic razor out of. Only Corsair seems to care anymore about life in the real world. It is a jungle out here. See especially their 32GB Flash Survivor Flash Drive USB 2.0 Highspeed Ultra Plug & Play.
I need an SDHC reader that can go anywhere in a back pocket without breaking. Okay, front pocket. It must survive under rugged conditions.
This is definitely not it.
For one thing it is designed to have a cap on the reader end, as you can see in the picture, yet none came with mine in the unopenable retail package. Here in the desert, the dust would quickly plug it up.
The other end has a cap, covering the USB connector, with a tiny hole for your lanyard. As others mention here in their reviews, this is asking for trouble. The unit can slip right off the cap and lanyard and you would never know it.
In any case, the tiny key ring type wire spring which goes into the lanyard hole (and which comes taped to the package next to the store security device) requires the magical skill and power of tiny bionic elf fingers and eyes to install; I cannot.
For this I paid the professional price? Maybe I should go with the Transcend Multi-Card Reader M5 – Card reader ( CF I, CF II, MS, MS PRO, Microdrive, MMC, SD, MS Duo, xD, MS PRO Duo, miniSD, RS-MMC, TransFlash, MMCmobile, microSD, MMCplus, SDHC, miniSDHC, MS Micro, microSDHC ) – Hi-Speed USB instead but I just want an SDHC reader that will last. Any ideas?
Rating: 2 / 5
i ordered this product and rechargeable batteries and charger. Both are junk. The “Reader” failed after the first use, and the batteries never hold an adequate charge. I later purchased a Rayovac Battery charger w/ batteries from Walmart ($6.00)…works great! As for the Reader, I simply download from the camera to desktop! Save your money!
Rating: 1 / 5