SanDisk Imagemate USB CompactFlash Reader (SDDR-31)

Rating:
Summary: Reader AND Writer!
Review: I purchased this reader when I bought my Kodak DC215, because the camera doesn't have USB connectivity. This way, I can download my pictures faster. My camera has the option of using templates on the pictures I take. This requires me to upload bitmaps to the CompactFlash Card. With this USB Reader/Writer, I am able to not only read faster from the card, but I can also write faster. I even tried uploading an EXE file at work, and I was able to download it at home. I can use it as a small Zip Drive. Plus, it worked on Windows 2000! This is a GREAT buy if you have a digital camera.

Rating:
Summary: THIS THING IS SO NICE
Review: I use this device to download photos from my digital camera. My digital camera's connection uses a serial connection, and is so slow. I bought this, and it is literally instantaneous to download pictures. I have had no trouble with it, it is simple to use and easily transportable, I take it with me when I travel so that I can download onto my laptop, if you're tired of waiting for your pictures to download, get this, it's a cheap alternative!

Rating:
Summary: THIS THING IS SO NICE
Review: I use this device to download photos from my digital camera. My digital camera's connection uses a serial connection, and is so slow. I bought this, and it is literally instantaneous to download pictures. I have had no trouble with it, it is simple to use and easily transportable, I take it with me when I travel so that I can download onto my laptop, if you're tired of waiting for your pictures to download, get this, it's a cheap alternative!

Rating:
Summary: So far, so good - Easy Installation, works great
Review: I was a little leary about getting it after reading about one reviewer's problems in Win 2K (SP2). I'm running the same, and even messed up the installation by not following the albeit minimal directions. I plugged it in before installing the SanDisk drivers for it. After reading the directions, I installed the San Disk drivers, rebooted, and it's been working fine since. My only advice would be to ignore the default unplug/eject hardware tray icon, and use the ImageMate one exclusively. And the price was right!

Rating:
Summary: EASY!!!!
Review: I was extremely anxious about ordering this compactflash card reader, after reading reviews that encountered problems with their computers upon loading this software. I CAN NOT tell you how many times I've put my computer into SAFE MODE, and no idea how I've done it -- and takes me HOURS to get it back up again. Well, I put the CD in, everything went great --- I plugged the Sandisk cardreader into my USB port, and it worked GREAT!! I just got it today, and I've used it with two different compactflash cards ---- and I'm HAPPY!! I have Windows 98.

Rating:
Summary: SanDisk Imagemate USB Compactflash reader
Review: I was without my usual compactflash/smartmedia reader for a little while and figured I'd get this inexpensive reader and then sell it when I got my microtech cameramate back. The Sandisk is easy to set up, I had a few glitches with my HP 700mhz system and finally uninstalled the software, plugged the thing in and followed the prompts. It worked fine. You do get what you pay for though. This is just a chunk of thick plastic on the end of a USB cable. It's got some kind of fish eye looking design on the top and a little green LED to let you know when your card is being used. The mouth of the unit is where you stick your card in and you have to be careful to line it up, it doesn't just slide in. I had to force my card the first couple of times. Getting the card out is just the reverse, yank it out. Not nearly as nice as my Microtech with it's push to eject button, but it's also half the cost. I use both CF and SM so the microtech is really the best solution for me, but if you need a cheap USB CF reader, this one is as good as any. I have had no compatibility problems and have used it with an off brand CF card and 2 name brand with no trouble.

Rating:
Summary: Problems with Windows ME
Review: I've been trying for days to get the drive to work with my PIII-800 Windows ME machine. It's highly unstable, even after completely disabling (stop from loading) the Adaptec CD Write application. The drive is recognized less than 25% of the time, and constantly spits out error messages about removing the drive. Also, I can only copy a couple small <50k files - anything larger brings on the blue screen of death and a corrupt file on the CF card.

Rating:
Summary: What a time saver!
Review: I've had several digital cameras and have agonized over downloading the pictures onto my hard drive . . . until now. I ran across the ImageMate and thought I'd try it out. WOW! What a difference. It acts like another drive on your computer and you can retrieve pictures instantiously. In ten minutes, I had the ImageMate installed, hooked up and was printing pictures. It's great.

Rating:
Summary: Big conflicts with Adaptec CD writer
Review: I've installed just about everything on my computer. This is the single most difficult piece of equipment I've ever attempted to install. The driver conflicts with the Adaptec Easy CD. Sandisk knows this, and after spending 15 minutes on their site, they give you instructions on where to download the patches. But the patches don't work. The compact flash reader shows up, then disappears.
I installed a SmartMedia reader by SimpleTech and it went flawlessly. Sandisk should be ashamed of themselves for delivering a product with such buggy, awful drivers.
I want to throw this product against the wall repeatedly, that's how mad I am.

Rating:
Summary: Works like a charm
Review: If you have a Iomega Zip drive, this baby functions in the exact way, except this one plugs into your USB port, while the Zip hooks up by SCSI.