In most cases, your card reader is faulty... you may try to borrow another usb card reader from your friends or buy a new one.
I have found some website for you.
http://www.cross-mark.com/mini-card-reader-p-641.html...
I think its really depends on luck ... for my experience, I some of my clients are using WD , in most case it will die within 1 year.... but Seagate can least about 3 years or more. Thats what I know , my clients are office user, so they use over 10hrs /day. If you really want to protect your...
I have brought an usb extension adapter with a 15ft cat.5 cable without any problem.
You may try an usb extension adapter , which is using a cat.5 cable to achieve the extend function. But please not that don't use a cat5 cable with longer than 50m (although the spec of cat.5 can achieve...