Microtech ZiO! Reviews

Rating
Reviewed by:

djl
( Intermediate)

Review Date
February 6, 2005

Overall Rating
2 of 5

Value Rating
2 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Review 1 of 9

Price Paid: $0.00

Summary:

I do not own this device, HOWEVER, I do have some useful info for anyone who does! The manufacturer's website is now WWW.ZIOCORP.COM. You can get up-to-date info on their products, download drivers and get support! Hope this info helps.

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Rating
Reviewed by: Rick
(Expert)

Review Date
January 4, 2004

Overall Rating
2 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Review 2 of 9

Price Paid: $0.00 from best buys

Summary:

The Zio caed reader is great, never a problem, only problem is there is NO HELP. No Site to go to to get drivers for ther systems. No tech advice. Nothing!!!!!

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Rating
Reviewed by: T Foster
(Intermediate)

Review Date
December 27, 2003

Overall Rating
4 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Review 3 of 9

Price Paid: $20.00 from online

Summary:

I have used this product on XP Home, XP Pro, and a Mac G3 and it never gave me any trouble. I got it 10 months ago and it is working great. I have never needed to install the software to get it to work.

Strengths:

Easy to use

Weaknesses:

no problems yet.

Similar Products Used:

Imation card reader

Customer Service:

none

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Rating
Reviewed by: Matt Quirk
(Professional)

Review Date
December 16, 2003

Overall Rating
1 of 5

Value Rating
1 of 5

Used product for
2-5 years

Review 4 of 9

Price Paid: $0.00 from Arrived free with ca

Summary:

A decent bit of hardware with fatal flaws. The Microtech branded 'ZiO' image reader works great, provided that you don't need to install any driver software. If your computer's built-in USB drivers can handle it, go ahead and use it. Otherwise run. Screaming. As has been documented elsewhere (http://daringfireball.net/2003/08/microtechs_crashtacular_zio_driver), the Mac OS X driver for the reader causes serious problems when waking a computer from sleep. The Windows drivers seem to cause file corruption. The http://www.microtechint.com/ website appears to be extinct, so there are no new versions of the driver available.

Strengths:

Hardware seems to work fine.

Weaknesses:

Driver software is terribly flawed.

Similar Products Used:

Sandisk, Antec

Customer Service:

No longer available from www.microtechint.com website

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Reviewed by: Brian
(Professional)

Review Date
November 2, 2003

Overall Rating
1 of 5

Value Rating
1 of 5

Used product for
2-5 years

Review 5 of 9

Price Paid: $50.00 from Mac Business Solutio

Summary:

What a PIECE OF POO! This thing works for a little while, then it starts corrupting your image files and making them unreadable. I have owned two and ended up spending $300 to send my camera in for service thinking that the camera was the problem. Then I bought a second card reader. It worked for a little while then crapped out like the first one. I think the problem is software related but I can't seem to download anything from Microtech's web site to fix the problem.

Strengths:

It worked fine when it was new.

Weaknesses:

Doesn't work after a while

Similar Products Used:

None yet, I'm gunshy.

Customer Service:

Couldn't find any.

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