>> Maybe it's a stealth upgrade to newer *ist-D's <<
I doubt that, for two reasons:
1) I emailed the Image Resource reviewer a few weeks ago asking if he was
ever going to review the *ist D. He replied that he'd started an *ist D
review a long time ago but had been unable to find the time to finish it.
So, if there had been a recent slipstream to USB 2.0, he probably wouldn't
have it.
2) My *ist D arrived from Adorama just 6 days ago, so if there had been a
recent slipstream that any customers had yet, I'd probably have it too.
But here are my numbers, using a Lexar WA 40X 1GB card:
*ist D on a USB 1.1 port (built onto motherboard):
0.834 MB/Second
(No message from Windows XP suggesting I use a USB 2.0 port for it)
*ist D on a USB 2.0 port (on an add-on card):
0.824 MB/Second
Lexar USB 2.0 Card Reader on the USB 2.0 port:
3.147 MB/Second
That's consistent with what others here have reported. The reviewer's time
seems to be at least twice as fast as any of ours.
Greg
> Maybe it's a stealth upgrade to newer *ist-D's - my *ist-D hooked directly
> to the PC and my USB 1.1 card reader both take about 20 minutes to
> download
> 1 gig of data. My X-Drive II takes only ~5 minutes for the same transfer
> using USB 2. The card in the X-Drive reader is somewhat faster than USB
> 1.1
> at ~15 minutes - don't know what conectivity is in the X-Drive.
>
> - MCC
>
> At 07:40 AM 3/31/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>"Greg Lovern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >New review of the *ist D at Imaging Resource:
>> >
>> > http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/ISTD/ISTDA.HTM
>> >
>> >Very positive; maybe the most positive I've read.
>>
>>Now *here's* an interesting excerpt from that review:
>>
>>"While the manual claims that the *ist D only supports the USB v1.1
>>interface standard, my own tests seemed to show that it's actually
>>running at USB v2.0 speeds. I clocked its download speed at 1963
>>KB/second with a Lexar 24x memory card, connected to my Sony VAIO
>>Windows XP workstation. (2.4 GHz Pentium IV processor, 512 MB of RAM.)
>>This is quite fast: Cameras with USB v1.1 interfaces top out at a little
>>over 600 KB/second. I've seen USB 2.0-equipped cameras move data as
>>quickly as several MB/second, but the *ist D's download speed is faster
>>than average, even among cameras with USB 2.0 interfaces."
>>
>>--
>>Mark Roberts
>>Photography and writing
>>www.robertstech.com
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