Product Description

SanDisk's MicroMate Readers/Writers line is compact in design and dedicated to a select type of card formats. These readers are perfect as an extra set to carry around in your briefcase, purse, or on your keychain. MicroMate for SD supports SD and SDHC.

Product Details

• Brand: SanDisk
• Model: SDDR-113-A10M
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20" h x .4" w x .28" l, .10 pounds

Features

• Ultra small and thin design, Designed for accessing and transferring data between a PC and memory-enabled mobile devices, TransferMate enables application launches automatically when a card with content is inserted, Includes storage cap, and mini key ring. For SD, MiniSD MicroSD

Customer Reviews

MicroMate vs MobileMate --
My new A-DATA 8GB SDHC card works fine in my Canon SD800 camera, but wouldn't show up on my Mac desktop after I plugged it into my Sandisk MobileMate card reader. Enter the Sandisk MICROMATE, which turns out to have been designed to handle the newer, higher-capacity SDHC cards, as well as earlier generations of SD cards. The MicroMate is an efficient conduit between my A-DATA, Lexar, and Kingston cards on the one hand, and my Macs on the other. No drivers are needed -- it's all plug & play. The device has a little green light that powers on when the reader is inserted into a USB port. It comes with a transparent plastic cap that protects the USB plug; when you remove the cap to plug the MicroMate into your computer, the cap fits on and over the slot on the rear of the MicroMate (and over an SD card that you might have inserted there), so that you don't lose it. On a critical note, the cap also has an opening in its corner that lets you hook it onto a keychain -- an asinine design because if the reader detaches from the cap, you'll still have the cap but stand a good chance of losing the device itself. Other than that (and the caveat that this thing looks like it shouldn't cost more than ten or twelve bucks), the MicroMate is a nicely functional, able performer.

Does what it needs to do... I just wish it came with a USB extender
Works great with SDHC cards... but if your USB port is recessed, you may not be able to plug it in all the way. And if you have side-by-side ports, you'll probably cover up the ports next to the one you're plugged in to. I wish it came with a little 3-inch USB extender!

compact, fast, nicely built SD and SDHC reader
Works well on both my Mac OS X and Windows XP configurations, giving the ability to read/write SDHC and SD media. In a nice design detail, the clear cap over the USB connector also fits over the SD card slot while its in use.

Note however that the reader is wide, and doesn't come with a cable extender (minus 1 star on my rating). If your USB ports are side-by-side horizontally, you may have a tough time plugging this in without an extension cable or removing items from neighboring ports. For this price, the cable should be included.

One mystery - there is a hole in the cap to attach a neck strap, but how many times to you need an SD reader so close at hand? And, you could lose the reader but the cap would remain attached.

Overall I'd recommend highly - it's compact, fast, well designed, although a cable extender would make it perfect.