I tested six different readers when I needed new one (bought, tested, returned five as unsatisfactory...). These Sandisk readers were the fastest by a factor of nearly 2x.
I never install any of the software which comes with these things. I just want the reader ... Mac OS X has all the drivers required already. Same thing happened with flash memory drives: I picked up a Lexar FireFly 4G as a gift for someone else and tested it. Miserable performance ... writes at [EMAIL PROTECTED], reads at a maximum of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I exchanged it for a 4G Sandisk ... which achieves up to 13Mbytes per second on read operations, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on writes, and cost me 30% less! G On Feb 23, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Thibouille wrote: > Just got myself a decent reader. It was not a huge priority: I sold my > old cheap reader with my D and its CF card I didn't anymore and I had > a SD reader embedded in my laptop anyway. Those reader are dead slow > usually but hey I could transfer the files so it was OK. > > I have no other reader (except SD built into the laptop) I can't test > everything. > > First the price: In another thread, someone mentions the price (in US > I suppose) being $25. Well I had to give €36. I hate both $ -> € > conversions as well as VAT :( > > Second: It comes with Photoshop Album Starter Edition (won't even > install that one) and small application which detects when you put a > card in it and ask what you wanna do. Testing as I write... Lightroom > as that kind of things too so I dunno which one I'll let runnning (or > maybe none). > > Third, the speed: A quickie test showed a Traxdata card (not sure the > speed in X) scored 2250kB/s copying DNGs to the laptop. From the > Sandisk reader, I get 12.500-13000 kB/s. > > Heck, knew it would be faster but I'm shocked (positively) :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
