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| TwinMOS 7-in-1 USB Card Reader/Writer |
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| Written by Alexandru Spataru | |
| Wednesday, 13 June 2007 | |
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You can copy, erase files, you can create directories, you can do almost anything you want. But there is a downside, you can only safely remove a card after you click Eject in the Explorer menu, otherwise the cache isn't cleared. Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 require the drivers from the CD to be installed, but that's no big deal. The advantages are the marked icons; for each slot there's an icon and you can safely remove the cards without having to confirm that in the Explorer. Here's what the icons for the new card slots look like:
For example, if you own a digital camera and a mobile phone, both with flash memory card support, but different formats, you can easily swap data from the cards that these devices use directly to the PC. And what's great is that you no longer have to connect the device to the computer, so you can still use it while copying data from or to the computer on the memory card. Provided, of course, that you either have several cards for the same device or that the device has internal memory. I can now happily use my digital camera while I copy pictures from the card I just filled, and I don't even have to install the drivers and software for the camera, which by the way were not very good, and I had some trouble saving my pictures in the folder I wanted. Although the card reader only supports USB 1.1, the transfer of data from cards to PC is quite fast, or at least faster than it is from camera to the PC. I can now use my SD card as a very big floppy disk, and it's a lot smaller in size and a lot faster, while being able to hold much more data. If the computer you want to transfer the data from the card to has no card reader, you can use the same card reader without any problems. Due to it's small size and light weight, the 7-in-1 USB card reader/writer is very easy to carry around, it even fits in a pocket ;) The only major disadvantage is that the drive is not USB 2.0 compatible, so it's limited to only 1.5MBps transfer speed. All flash memory cards can work much faster than that, even the slower MultiMedia Card. There is one more thing I didn't like much, that being the fact that the device has no feet or rubber bands of the bottom, so you must hold it with your hand so it doesn't move when inserting or removing a card. But there is a very easy workaround for this problem, you just attach it to your desk or whatever using double sided adhesive tape, which I did and now I have no more problems. Pros
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