Re: actual speed of 1394 (Firewire) CF readers?

Bill Hilton wrote:
David J Taylor writes ...

external "Belkin hi-speed USB 2.0 8-in-1" card reader. (5.54MB/s)
...
unknown brand internal card reader. (8.89MB/s)

OK, thanks for the info ... we have an 8-1 IOgear reader but it was a
bit slower than the SIIG, IIRC.

Is the figure you gave (7 minutes for 2GB, IIRC) really an issue?

Most of the time when we're on the road we shoot 3-6 GB per 'session'
(ie, AM or PM) for two people and have time to download, review, cull
and write off to backup hard drives without any time problems. So
this download rate isn't typically a big deal. But this fell apart in
Africa last January when we shot a lot more and had power access
issues. The worst case (best case for photography :) was in Tanzania
when we got into lions and then cranes and then cheetahs in the same
great morning and shot 14 GB of images by 10:30 AM (8.5 frames/sec, 8
and 11 Mpixel RAW files, what can I say? we got carried away). I
posted some of these earlier and here are a few more that my wife shot
that AM (also cheetahs later) ...
http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/carol_lions_2.htm

Anyway this remote lodge had only two power outlets and ran a
generator a few hours each day so it was a hassle downloading,
previewing etc and we couldn't keep up (our battery is only good for
a couple of hours when we're doing stuff like this). We are
returning to Africa soon and just got a newer laptop that's almost
twice as fast at generating previews and converting RAW files, but
the download times are still the same so that's why I was looking for
something faster, especially since this one has a Firewire port. But
Pat's suggestion to download two cards simultaneously basically
doubled our download thru-put.

Bill

Bill,

Fascinating to hear of the problems which others have! I can see you
getting a USB hub and taking about half a dozen readers! 14GB would be a
lot even for me - I only possess 8GB of memory and that's all I would use
on a week's trip!

Nice photos, by the way!

Cheers,
David


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