I ordered the Imagemate 12 in 1 from buy.com after reading your post this morning, along with the USB 2 card. I saw they had 2 gig Extreme III cards for $69, so I picked up another card as well. Thanks for the tip. Paul On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
