Hello Mark, The X-Drive was never known for speed. Have you considered just getting the case only of the Hyperdrive (CompactDrive) and putting your HD from the X-Drive in it? Not overly expensive and may save you from having to buy too many extra cards. www.hyperdrive.com - just a thought.
-- Bruce Monday, December 4, 2006, 4:26:55 AM, you wrote: MC> mike wilson wrote: >>> From: Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Write time to the X's drive is a bigger issue for me - it took a solid >>> 20 minutes to download each card to the X's Drive II. >> >> I have the same (Dane-Elec) card in 1Gb configuration. It >> takes about 3 minutes to write a full card (90+) to my PC, which is >> steam powered. You must have a really slow card reader. >> MC> That's the time it takes for the X-Drive to copy files to its internal MC> hard drive. Once hooked up to the PC it acts as a USB 2 card reaer as MC> well, and then it can pump the data to the computer at about 1 gig per 4 MC> minutes. But it's internal hardware for writing to the 40 gig drive MC> inside is pretty slow (but then it's an old device.) MC> - MCC MC> -- MC> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MC> Mark Cassino Photography MC> Kalamazoo MC> www.markcassino.com MC> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
