Re: Question About Memory Card Reader

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 03:41:03 +0200 (CEST), Mardon
<mgb72mgb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Bean <waterfoot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm sorry about your Firewire issues but I very much doubt
it's the reader. My USB Extreme reader gives 16MB/s on my
rather old Sempron 2600+ PC under XP Pro so I know the
Sandisk readers perform as advertised. That's why I made the
recommendation.

I didn't mean to imply that I thought my problem is the reader; I don't. I
don't think it's the firewire connection either though. I capture digital
video at 720x40, 29.97 fps though that same port and never drop a frame. I
have no idea what the problem is. Strange that it does it with both OS's
too. I download from the card by just opening the CF card in Windows
Explorer and dragging the files to another folder in Windows Explorer. If
you do your downloads this way, do you still get high speeds?

Yes. Even when using an image import program that renames
every file from the EXIF data it finds I still get in excess
of 13MB/s.

I'm not convinced that Firewire is well supported by Windows
PCs, I once had (past tense) a Firewire card and reader
because it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I gave
it up as a bad job and returned to USB.

It's odd how exactly the reverse is true on a Mac, where
users often report flaky USB performance but Firewire is
normally solid as a rock.

--
John Bean
.

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