ByteStor USB2.0 8in1 Reader

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Customer reviews

review by: Brilliant boy date: 2005-07-27 rating:
Its Cheap but Very Slow
it looks good and cost cheap, working very slow. i have old unnamed product that working faster than this one.

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review by: targaid date: 2005-06-15 rating:
Get what you pay for
It feels cheap & shoddy, though it looks okay. BUT...
It is highly tempramental. So far it has wiped my sd card three times during transfer of data. I'm getting worried that it may damage the card. It is quick to use, so restoring the files I keep on it is no big hassle, but it's a hassle I shouldn't have. Buy/use at your own risk! Don't trust it with vital data.

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review by: date: 2005-06-03 rating:
All you need
I have three cameras, all with different types of media. I plainly needed a multi-card reader. I agonised over whether to spend £25+ in most shops or £10 on this, and eventually plumped for the cheap option.
It's everything that you need. It worked first time (with Windows). I didn't need the manual. Working out which way to put the cards in is intuitive - the pins generally face the centre of the machine.
It saves on wires, battery power, time, and risk of crashing and losing your precious photos. I should have bought one years ago.

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review by: lostpilgrim date: 2005-03-02 rating:
works perfectly with linux
I was attracted to this product mainly because it was cheap and I needed a memory card reader pronto. But I'm perfectly happy with it. The construction feels a little cheap, but that's to be expected at this price. What's important is that the card reader does the job required without any problems. What more could you ask?

I must allow for a slightly smug feeling, given that some other reviewers have had difficulties getting this product to work with Windows. I had no problems using the card reader on my linux system (SuSE linux 9.1).

For the benefit of other linux users: When I plug the card reader in, the system detects it as a usb mass storage device. The four slots on the device are detected as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. These devices can be mounted onto the filesystem once a card is inserted into the corresponding slot. For example, I stuck an SD card in the appropriate slot and issued the following command to mount the device:

mount -t /dev/sdc1 /some/folder/

All in all, a good cheap product that does what it says on the tin.


review by: j_makn1 date: 2005-02-12 rating:
Cheap 'n' Cheerful, But Does The Business
Well. Despite many moans in previous reveiews about there being no indication which way up the card goes, none of the reviewers themselves bothered to mention which way up the card goes! I think that might be ironic. For the record: the SD card slots in with its pins facing up, and the LED changes colour once it's properly inserted. There.

I needed a memory card reader fast, and this one was the only one available at short notice, so, despite my misgivings after reading some of the reviews, I placed the order.

First of all, there is no paper manual, and the accompanying disk, supposed to contain the manual, wouldn't work for me. It kept trying to load it but either stopped completely, or asked me if I wanted to view some Chinese characters, and then wouldn't proceed further. OK, possibly my PC at fault here, but a paper manual - even a single sheet of grainy A4 - would be more professional, I think. Then we could have diagrams showing which way up to insert the cards, without needing to guess. And I reckon a PC novice would have no idea whatsoever how to actually use the unit, and find and manipulate data on the desktop, etc. Bad show.

The read/write function itself is as simple, speedy and unproblematic as I could have wished for. I copy lots of DVDs to watch on my PDA, and had grown tired of waiting up an hour or more for the data to transfer. This reader does the job in a couple of minutes or less. Despite the reservations this is a very good purchase, and great value for money.

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