Lacie Datashare

Lacie’s Datashare is certainly unusual looking. Its red and white plastic shell looks a bit like a giant pill.

Separate the two-coloured parts, though, and you'll find that each has a USB plug and a memory card slot. The red section takes SD and SDHC cards, or MicroSD cards using an adapter, while the white one accepts only MicroSD.

Apparently, the idea is that you stick a memory card in both and then use one side for files that you want to share and the other for those you want to keep private. There is nothing to stop you keeping both to yourself, though.

The two memory card readers work well, but we’re not sure how useful a MicroSD card reader is – we’d rather have two standard SD ones. Even so, the two-part design does at least keep dust out of the card slots when they’re not in use, and £10 seems a reasonable price to pay for a sturdily made card reader.