Flash Reviews

The product installed and worked flawlessly on XP. Little did I know but it does not support or fit CF Type II cards like the IBM Microdrive that I bought it for. OOooooops!!! This means that I'm going to have to buy another to support my Microdrive. But it works great for my 128 and 32Mb CF Type I cards so I'm keeping it anyhow. Be sure you are using a Type I CF card and it'll work like a charm, even on XP. The beautiful thing is that I didn't need to install any drivers or anything else to get it to work, it just works.

I put my Sandisk 128 MB CF card into the adapter and pushed it into the laptop PCMCIA slot. I had a hard drive! Nothing else to do!

Compared to a 100MB Zip drive, this is a great way to transfer data from notebook to notebook. However, the CF cards are expensive. So don't use this for permanent storage. Buy a CD writer for that.

I am a software consultant. I go to a client-site, draw stuff on the whiteboard and when I'm done, I take a picture of the board with my digital camera. Then take the CF card out, put it in the adapter and stick the adapter in a notebook and the image is ready to transfer.

No software to install and no hassel.

That's what I like.

it's so cheap and works effectively.. what else can you ask for?

This thing is a piece of junk. Who need 8 mb. You can fit like 2 songs with 8mb. Don't get this please. I beg you.

As the previous reviewer noted, 8 meg isn't enough to be useful in an MP3 player. However, the format was designed to be used WITH DIGITAL CAMERAS, not with MP3 players. On my 1.3 megapixel digital camera, an 8 mb card holds around 25 pictures -- just like a roll of film. If you have an older digital camera (Phillips ESP80, Ricoh RDC-4300, Fuji DX-7, and a bunch of others), 8 MB is the biggest card you can use (the cameras won't recognize bigger cards), so this card is an appropriate choice. If your camera's at least 2 years old, check your manual to see the biggest card you can use. If you have a newer camera, however, the $$ per meg is much more attractive with a 16 or 32 meg card.

I title this review tongue in cheek. I agree that not much can be done with 8mb's these days, UNLESS one has a piece of equipment that can only accomodate an 8mb card. And yes I have such a piece of equipment. When I purchased my digital camera, 8mb was it...a year later Olympus offered to upgrade my camera's hardware to accomodate a 16mb card but at a substantial price that I am not willing to pay. I bought my camera because of the glass optics. It once was top of the line and it still continues to take good pictures. So for me finding an 8mb card is worth 5 stars. If I had a brand new MP3 player then I would not even consider an 8mb card. But I don't so I did...