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Summary: Crashes my Win XP and wants to uninstall itself
Review: The few times this garbage worked it seemed fast. After a short while the trouble started on XP and now it crashes the system. Be warned there are some major incompatibilites here and you may be the one to suffer. SanDisk needs to recall this product and return the money they stole from the public!
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Summary: Don't waste your time or money!
Review: I purchased the unit for my dad. It would not work with 3 out of seven CF cards. I am returning it and purchasing another IOGear CF reader which works with all my cards.
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Summary: If only it worked...
Review: I bought this after reading a few reviews and decided to take a chance. This product was a definite waste of my time. The look and quality of this reader is substantial for the price. The only problem I had was that it only worked occasionally. I have a 256mb lexar 12x compact flash for my digital camera and it seemed to work w/out any problems on my Windows XP. I have a 128mb Sandisk memory stickwhich I use for my clie nx70v and my system froze each time. I used a lexar memory stick and it worked half the time w/out crashing. I emailed Sandisk support and they were very responsive, but unfortunately had no helpful conclusions. I finally had to return this reader and purchased a Dazzle 6 in 1 reader and every card I had worked fine w/out any problems-even though it isn't a usb 2.0 reader.
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Summary: almost perfect....
Review: Was a little worried with some of the reviews I ready, but seemed to work well with all my memory cards (sandisk, viking compact flash, lexar memory stick) until I tried it with a new simpletech CF card I got. Bummer. I love the simpletech card cause it reads a lot faster than my sandisk, but now I have to use the digicam to transfer pictures from the simpletech CF to the computer.
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Summary: Works great for SD and SmartMedia cards
Review: I purchased the Sandisk 6-in-1 for use with both SmartMedia and SD cards. No prob with set-up and fast USB 2.0 speed. Like flexibility of support for Memory Stick as I looking at getting a new Sony Digital Camera. Good product and great price!
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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: I own 6 flash cards of varying types and sizes (3 Compact Flash, 1 SD and 2 Sony memory sticks). 2 of them (1 CF card and 1 memory stick) won't work on this unit, and one (a CF card) causes the whole thing to freeze up and malfuntion.This device is very buggy and although Sandisk knows about the problems, they will not offer refunds or any type of useful support. They have 2 responses: (1)"You can try to return it to the retailer you bought it from" or (2)"We are trying to determine the cause of the problems and develop a firmware fix, but we don't know when that will be available". I have spent too many aggravating hours on the phone with a customer service manager. Finally I got fed up and called Amazon.com to let them know that Sandisk is trying to leave retailers holding the bag with their defective products, since they are encouraging customers to ask their retailers for refunds. Amazon was great, and agreed to accept the product for refund even though I had to maul the packaging to get the unit out when I first received it. They even gave me pre-paid shipping, since the unit is defective. I would have saved myself a lot of hassle by simply buying a different product in the first place.
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Summary: did not perform well as expected
Review: I bought it basically as a CF reader but I get frustrated because it does not deliver its promised specifications. Yes, it is able to read Sandisk CF but NOT Viking CF. I ended up returning it for refund.
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Summary: Works with all media tested
Review: Plugged into USB 2.0, and XP immediately recognised it and installed the correct drivers automatically. I have tried it with SD, CF, and SM cards, and all are recognised immediately, and the transfer speed with USB2 is incredible. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Works Sometimes With Effort
Review: I've been using and have been frustrated with this product since early February. SanDisk's Tech Support has been of no help; they just blame the drivers, etc. When they are backed against the wall they just want me to send it back to them for replacement, which can cost me almost again what I paid for it.
Anyway, I can get it to work if I restart my PC. If I eject the memory card as they instruct I get an error dialog: "Cannot Unmount Volume"(red circle with an "X" in it and an "OK" button). When I insert the next media into it I get another error: "'disk' refers to a location that is unavailable". I then have to restart the PC to use that memory card.
When I get the thing working there is very little speed improvement over my older ImageMate CompactFlash Reader SDDR-31 that uses the USB 1.1 standard. Transfering a 141MB file using the 6-in-1 device took 1 minute and 31 seconds. The same file took 2 minutes and 45 seconds on the USB 1.1 device. That's not even twice as fast. This test was conducted unscientifically using a SimpleTech STI-CF/256 256MB CompactFlash card. The timing was done with a stop watch timing the period of time that the file trasfer dialog was being displayed. My PC is a Dell Dimension 4550 running Windows XP Professional SP1. This PC uses the Intel 845P chipset that supports both USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. The USB ports were not being used for anything else during the test.
From my searches on the Web, I have found that I'm not alone when it comes to problems with this device. SanDisk promises much and does not deliver and is quick to pass the blame to others. They make a good product with their Ultra CompactFlash line of memory cards. They need to pass along this type of engineering and quality to their other devices.
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Summary: Works fine, but beware Norton AntiVirus conflict
Review: I recently bought the 6-in-1 to use with my Sony Memory Stick and SanDisk SD cards. The Memory Sticks worked fine but the SD wouldn't work at all. In fact, as soon as I plugged in an SD card, the Memory Stick would also stop working. I filled in a problem report on the SanDisk website, and by 7:30 am the next morning I had a response. I must admit that I was skeptical of the suggested fix, which was to disable NAV scanning of the boot sector of removable media. However, when I did as suggested, all cards worked fine. Apparently, when NAV scans the SD card, the reader and/or NAV doesn't know how to handle this and disables the card. I see several comments in this section about similar problems; this may be the cause. My observations are therefore that it is a good product, quite fast, SanDisk provides excellent support, and the only negative is that they have to develop an upgraded flash for the reader that doesn't have the NAV conflict. Also, since they already knew about this conflict, they should have posted the information in their knowledgebase on the website.
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