Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24220 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Max Value
• Model: MV43112
• Released on: 2007-07-17

Manufacturer's Description
The Max Value card reader fits into both a 3.5” and 5.25” drive bay, it will allow you to read / write / erase data from 52 different types of memory card including most popular cards such as CompactFlash, IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MultiMedia, SecureDigital, and SmartMedia cards.

The front of the card reader bay is black to match PC’s with black cases and will work with any PC with a spare USB 2.0 motherboard connection.

Customer Reviews

Basic, but works fine
Basic in that there's no eject button for CF, nor "push to pop-out" mechanism for SD/MS cards - they need to be pulled out.
But, it just worked without issue on an Asus P4P800 motherboard using one of its on-board USB headers and with kernel 2.6.20 (Linux - earlier kernels with USB/hotplug support should be fine too), it appears as four separate card readers: SD, CF, SM & MS.

Cheap, and it shows
The item easily slotted in and was simple to attatch to the mother board. As you would expect. However the slot for the CF card was of such shoddy design that I basically couldn't get the card in without the fear of damaging the card or the pins, which meant it was pretty useless for me. The other slots worked fine but I primarily need it to read CF cards, so it gets a thumbs down from me.

Works well but a bit flimsy - good at the price
Comes supplied with fittings for either 3.5" or 5" bays which is useful. It fitted easily and the leads were long enough to reach the motherboard terminals. Reads all cards I've tried so far with no problems, mostly CF and SD but some others. Single additional USB port on the front is useful. Works seamlessly with XP Pro, no driver required.

XP sees it as a number of separate disc drives hence I now have drives H to K on my machine! Not a problem, but it's not immediately clear which slot is which!

One the down side, the one I was delivered had a couple of bent pins on the CF card slot. These are exposed to damage in the packaging. 5 minutes with a fine screwdriver and pair of pliers solved the problem but it wasn't a good start. These should really be protected better.

Connecting the USB wire was a bit of a faff because the plug can be fitted to the reader either way. Needless to say I got it on the wrong way first time. This could be better too as it would be simple to fit a plug that will only fit one way. Not a problem, just read the instructions very carefully.

There is a small red LED on the front to show it's powered up and a green flashing one when in use.