8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
True plug-n-play, Mar 5 2003
By D. Landin "Don" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Smartmedia Sm Reader Usb Nra 04/16/2004 (Personal Computers)
Ok, the hardest part was opening the heavy duty plastic package. I read the first paragraph of the instructions, plugged one end of the USB cable into the unit and the other end into a USB port on my PC.
Windows 2000 immediately sprang to life, detected and set up the SmartDisk media reader in about 10 seconds. I looked at the diagram in the instructions to see how to orient the SmartDisk and put it in. When my PC still said to enter a disk, I realized I needed to push it in all the way, kind of like a diskette.
When I did that I had a 64 Meg removable drive online, and it is MUCH faster than the floppy disk adapter that I was replacing. I uploaded the pictures from my digital camera in about 30 seconds.
Thumbs up on this one!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
At least it looks alright, Feb 10 2003
By "snowman1772" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Smartmedia Sm Reader Usb Nra 04/16/2004 (Personal Computers)
Simply put, it doesn't work. I got this for my dad the christmas, along with a Toshiba camera, and new (128mb) smart media memory card. Being an aesthetic freak, i have to say that it does look kinda cool, but thats where my praise ends. Of course, it may be a defective one, but i've got to report on the one that I got. We're not really sure why it doesn't work, it could be the fact that the connector is really loose in the unit itself, or maybe the build quality is just bad. I really would not suggest you buy this, as it doesn't work (for me at least), and it just sems to ooze cheapness and poor build quality. Do ourself a favor and check out one either here, or try somewhere else, like Directron.com for a smart media specific one, its up to you.