CheapMemory card readers programmed to fail?

[cheapie]

Re: CheapMemory card readers programmed to fail?

I have a Dynex DX-CR121 10-in-1 card reader. It's lasted about 5 years so far and still going. It reads SD, miniSD, microSD, MMC, RS-MMC, MS, MS Duo, CF, SM, and xD.

[Time2Retire]

Re: CheapMemory card readers programmed to fail?

I have a SD/USB card reader that I found in my garden a few weeks ago. The plastic case around it was melted, like it had been burned. I removed the melted case, cleaned it up, and it works!

Here's how I think it got into my garden. Last time I remember, it was on the edge of my kitchen table. Next to my table I had a paper bag, where I put old bills and personal papers. These papers I periodically take out to the garage and burn in my wood burning stove. I also sometime dumped the ashes from the stove in the garden, to recycle.

The card reader must have fell into the bag, which I burned and then dumped the ashes into the garden. I haven't seen this reader in maybe 3 years, and haven't used that part of the garden for even longer. It's been in the ground for about 3 years.

The only identification on it is this:

UT311:CD-35
PCBV0.1-080323
www.wjdtek.com

Here's some pics (I used it to copy the pics from my camera's SD card):

[cheapie]

Re: CheapMemory card readers programmed to fail?

That would be a perfect example of how it seems that so many things can survive abuse but not use...

[caminati]

Re: CheapMemory card readers programmed to fail?

I have a SD/USB card reader that I found in my garden a few weeks ago. The plastic case around it was melted, like it had been burned. I removed the melted case, cleaned it up, and it works!

Wow. Now, that's sturdiness.
Do you have the possibility to do a lsusb of it from a unix box?

[Time2Retire]

Re: CheapMemory card readers programmed to fail?

Wow. Now, that's sturdiness.
Do you have the possibility to do a lsusb of it from a unix box?

No problem:

ID 1307:0310 Transcend Information, Inc. SD/MicroSD CardReader [hama]

[caminati]

Re: CheapMemory card readers programmed to fail?

No problem:

Thx