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Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader Reviews

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Summary: This bad boy is SUPER FAST
Comment: I installed this on my Mac and PC and boy is this mutha fast. Im getting 1 gigabyte per minute with my SanDisk 8 meg Secure III CF Card. Its as fast as I expected , works flawlessly and is super small. Great quality that I've come to expect from SanDisk. oH YEAH , Dont get the USB card reader if you want Super Speed, get this one instead. 5 stars fo sho.

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Summary: Great paired with SanDisk 8GB CF Card
Comment: Does exactly what it's supposed to. My laptop only has FireWire 400 so don't know how much faster it would be on a FW800 but on FW400 it imports a full 8GB Extreme III card into Lightroom in about 5 minutes, RAW 15MB files.

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Summary: As Fast As It Says
Comment: When I plug this into my FireWire 800 port and download from a SanDisk Extreme IV CF card, it fires through 4G in about 2 minutes or less. Amazing.

I'm going to eventually buy another one to take with me to use with my laptop.

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Summary: Very fast image transfers
Comment: This CF reader is well worth the money if you pair it with SanDisk's Extreme IV CF cards. How fast is it? I shot 139 RAW images on my Canon 20D onto an 4GB SanDisk Extreme IV CF card. The images average 8 MB per file for a total of 1.04 GB. I used this Extreme Firewire CF reader connected to a 1394a port on a desktop PC running Windows Vista. The card reader took just 42 seconds using Adobe Bridge to load the images. That is a transfer rate of 26.7 MB/sec. That is more than 2X faster than using the SanDisk Ultra II cards or using the Extreme IV card on my USB CF reader. The load was so fast, I could barely make out the thumbnail images as they flashed by in the Adobe Bridge loader pop-up dialog. By the way, installation was a snap. I just plugged it in and it was ready to go. I'm very happy with this purchase. Highly recommended.

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Summary: A faster reader for compact flash cards
Comment: This SanDisk firewire reader offers a definite speed improvement over standard USB 2.0 readers. For example, writing to uDMA compact flash cards occurs at a rate of 14 megabytes/second and reading occurs at a rate of 25 megabytes/second. Writing to non-uDMA compact flash cards occurs at a rate of 10 megabytes/second and reading occurs at a rate of 13 megabytes/second. In contrast, my USB 2.0 reader can write to or read from either uDMA or non-uDMA compact flash cards at a rate of 5 megabytes/second. These speed improvements are well worth the price of this firewire reader.

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