Look up its specs on the web ... based on the name you provided, it
might be the Olympus MAUSB-5W unit at this page:
http://www.olympus-europa.com/consumer/198_MAUSB-5W.htm
That's a USB 1.1 spec device. USB 1.1 is not particularly useful with
the data volumes involved when you're using high resolution cameras
and RAW format files, where 1G storage cards are the baseline. USB
1.1 is approximately 30-40x slower than USB 2.0 ...
A 60x 1G card used with a USB 2.0 transfers at around [EMAIL PROTECTED]
give or take, which means about 170 seconds (just under 3 minutes)
from start to end. An optimistic 30x that number for USB 1.1 means
that to transfer the same card data with a USB 1.1 reader takes 5000
seconds, or 83 minutes.
USB 1.1 reader devices were fine when the average card capacity was
16-64Mbytes. With 1G and larger cards becoming the norm, they're no
longer useful. A good 8-in-1 USB card reader (I use a Belkin) now
costs on the order of $15-30, so it's not an enormous expense.
Godfrey
On Feb 28, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Jack Davis wrote:
I'm sure virtually everyone has long since gone well beyond this tech
level, but how do I determine the down load/write speed of my "Olympus
Camedia USB Dual Slot Reader-Writer"?
Bought this 'prox 5 years ago to read CF cards from a 1.3mp compact.
I'm now beginning to wonder about its adequacy in handling large files
from a 10mp DSLR.
