Customer Reviews

BlueProton Bundle: Sandisk 4GB Secure Digital SD HC Memory Card(SDSDB-4096, bulk) & USB 2.0 Card Reader Writer (Blue)

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Great product...purchased this to go with Mom's mother's day camera and it works perfectly. The added card reader is nice too since her laptop does not have an internal SD reader. Great price and great service from the seller.

I purchased this memory card for my Nikon D80 camera. The card works well, holding over 1000 shots at Jpg Normal quality. I am very glad the card came with a card reader, since this card cannot be recognized by my other SD card reader. This SD card will also NOT work in my Canon SD450. These electronic items appearantly do NOT accept SD HC.

The 4GB SD card and reader writer works great. It can be used like a flash drive which makes this a very versatile product. Well worth the cash.

I use 4 GB cards primarily for backups. I've never had a problem, unlike with DVDs. I already had two non-SDHC 4 GB cards and wanted another. However, non-HC cards are becoming increasingly hard to find at a good price. So I decided to give this card+reader a try since it was so affordable. It works very well, with a read/write speed of about 4 MBytes/Sec on my Dell XPS computer. That's not as good as the 7.5 MB speed I get with the 13-in-1 media card reader on the computer, but that reader does not support SDHC cards. So, although the speed is less with this reader, I should now be able to use 8 GB or even 16 GB HC cards. I may even start using it as a media drive in addition to backups.

BTW, this reader is very easy to use. Just plug it into any available USB port and wait for Windows to initialize it. It is drive I:\ on my computer, but I'm sure that varies by computer and OS.

Buy this product if you only need the SD memory card. The card reader/writer that I received was defective. Most of the time when I connected it to my computer, it was not recognized. The few times that it was recognized, when I tried to copy a file to it, the LED turned off and I got an 'unknown path' error. If I then checked the properties of the device, it reads "Free space: 0 bytes". I tested this on three different computers and got the same results on each one. Fortunately, I had another card reader/writer, so I was able to verify that the 4GB SD Memory Card is good. Considering the price of a new card reader/writer vs. return shipping costs (my money+time), it wasn't worth it to me to return it; it's now a tiny sarcophagus buried in a land fill.

*Update: After informing BlueProton about my displeasure with their product, they are shipping me a replacement at no charge. If it also turns out to be a dud, I'll return and update this review again (and try to find a way to remove that one star). Otherwise, assume I got a working one on the second try.

I received this package nearly as quickly as the order was placed. I know such things do not belong in a product review, nor do references to pricing, but these things are so very extraordinary as to deserve recognition.

In any case, I will use this HC SD card in my Nikon D40, and be able to take hundreds of their RAW format (uncompressed) shots before needing another. I do come from the old time "shoot a (film) roll keep a shot" school of photojournalism, way back when such was economically feasible, and so I tend to snap as much and as many shots as possible, even of still lives, in order to discover at home the one shot that works. The D40 is great for this, including as I still struggle to conquer its auto-focus and auto-aperture (and thus depth of field) features, and so I am very grateful for as much room in memory as possible.

I imagine this 4 gigabyte card is also useful for video cameras that can use such a thing, as recording time may become longer. I have never used such a thing so I do not know. I only know that my D40 DSLR still camera loves to eat this ample memory card, and we are all happy. I read where the HC SD will soon come in even greater sizes.

Having lost the proprietary USB cable which connects the camera to the computer, I am really grateful for the included Blue Photon reader. Please note the reader is a little wide, as wide as the card plus half, and so you need to have a USB port on your computer with room on either side. This eliminates some of those front ports on some old Dells, and eliminates ports crowded with other peripheral cables. Move the mouse and keyboard cables elsewhere (do you need to get Microsoft's permission for this?) and squeeze in this reader.

I have already used this reader on the road. I can take photos out in Mexico or wherever, find a public internet source, sit down, swap the sd card out of the camera and into the reader, and file a story on the spot. These photos have already been published and came out just fine. I took them in the highest quality JPG format the D40 offers, and transfered them to the publisher without any further processing, and they came out incredibly well, if I do say do. Hey, the proof is they got published!

So there is no loss of quality in the reader itself, which is fast enough to effectively transfer a three or four megabyte photo file in no time. The reader is small and durable and slips into any pocket easily, even an inner hatband. Both ends have covers to protect the insides well. Don't leave home without it; there is no excuse not to take it along, and plenty of reason to bring it.

This deal cannot be beat. A great SD car and a fantastic reader. Can life get any better than this!

I've found some brands to be unreliable, especially when you use a converter to a mini SD card. This one works solidly everytime. I'll probably need to get another one because my daughter has decided that this one needs to belong in her room with her laptop. Even though I've got a few to choose from, I'll probably be happier when I get another one like this.

A lot of products such as older (1+ years) cameras can not take a 4 gig memory card.

This was my first usb stick like card reader -- and it works great. Very convenient. I use it instead of USB drive all the time.

The BlueProton reader is made of cheap thin plastic. However, the reader works without any problems. I did have a problem with a bad Sandisk 4gb sdhc card. The card was replaced and everthing works as is should. The reader fits easily into a shirt pocket. Great if you want to take the reader to work. For the price, this reader / card combo is a good deal.