Overall Review: I've bought several of these over the last few years. All good & reliable. Until there is a SSD version with similar capacity and an affordable price, this is my external drive of choice.

Pros: Simple to use Scans at a usable image size Power is drawn off the USB cord

Cons: Slide holder is not fool-proof. Workable but not well engineered Needs a SD card (not included)

Overall Review: Delivers more than acceptable images. There are two scan resolutions. The lower resolution yields better quality images. The relatively smaller resulting file size is still large enough to print a 8 in. x 10 in. and certainly fine for screen viewing. 4320px x 2880px at 72dpi. Large enough for viewing on a 4K screen. The image, when viewed on a computer screen, looks best when viewed at 50%. Much of the quality is dependent on the source slide. I've scanned over 250 slides from the 1950's - 1980's. Good photos come out good. Nothing fixes a bad shot. Kodachrome looks great. Ektachrome aged poorly. The unit does have color correction on-board. I haven't tried it. (I crop & adjust in Photoshop). The slide holder doesn't have depressions or a way to hold the slide in place perfectly. I manually position it. The device scans to a SD card - not supplied. There's a mode that allows for transferring the scanned images to the computer. At this price point - it's recommended. Not for professionals. It does what I need which is to preserve aging, family slides in a digital format.

Overall Review: Low cost & simple upgrade for a fresh Unbuntu install. I'd have been surprised if there were any issues here. The usual, significant system speed boost was immediately apparent. Gives new life to hardware that would otherwise be headed for the recycle heap.