Fill that floppy bay with something useful. Grab this Rosewill RCR-IC001 USB 2.0 Card Reader for $10 with free shipping. It provides a front USB 2.0 port as well as multiple card reading capabilities.
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I bought one of these a few years ago for my brother-in-laws machine. He does a lot of stuff with digital photography and video editing so he was always dealing with lots of different card formats. So far it's working fine.
Is Rosewill a good brand to go with for card readers? I am much in the same situation as #1 but am not sure which brand to go with. there are a lot of these all in one card readers.
I have this unit before-the build quality is better than something like logisys. And it work pretty well for the past 2 years for me.
Thanks #3 I may pick up one of these.
SDHC?
Nice price for this card reader. I have a Sabrent reader simaler to this and like it. One thing I have on mine and isn't on this one is a MicroSD/MicroSDHC reader. If you plan on using MicroSD cards on this you will need to use an adapter.
#4 U R welcome...
I've had this in my system for a couple of years now. Works just fine except that the USB connector in the front acts sort of funny with my iPod.
No other device gives it ANY problems. So I just end up plugging my iPod into another port. Problem solved.
rosewill is pretty goods. I have a smaller card reader and a usb wireless adapter from rosewill. All works properly and no problems. Had these for year and half now.
nice use of the old floppy space...
Rosewill is not a brand per se, it's just Newegg's house brand for products from multiple manufacturers. They could sell two Rosewill card readers and they might be from different manufacturers.
Worry more about the features like SDHC, and things nobody ever mentions like whether a USB boot-capable motherboard can boot from it. Some card readers can do this, others can't and I've no idea about this one... but it's a handy feature to have, a stack of SD cards replaces my old stack of floppy discs and stores neater, takes up less space than a bunch of USB thumbdrives... though keeping a thumbdrive for use out in the field is a bit handier.
I own this card reader.. No one have mention the SD card reader is upside down. Meaning some one at the Manufactured screw up, I'am not saying it don't work.. Mine works 100% great.. You just have to turn it upside down when put your SD card. Funny, Just only that SD Slot that's upside down. That why NE can sell this lower price. about SDHC it will take 4gb SDHC for sure but I did'nt try 8,16 or 32GB SDHC but, If 4gb work. I think it will take any SDHC, Not bad for 10 that what I paid last year..
A standard SD slot (soldered onto a PCB) has the contacts facing away from the PCB. Therefore, if the slot is on the top of the PCB the card is inserted label down. If the slot is on the bottom the card is inserted label up. If you want a reader where the card is facing up this is what you need to consider, the PCB being between the two horizontal rows of slots.