Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader

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Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader

SanDisk
Extreme CF Firewire Reader

List Price: $79.99
Lowest Price: $55.35

Product Description:

The Extreme FireWire Reader is a high performance reader, which provides you a complete digital system solution for your photography needs. It offers the highest performance requirement, up to 40MB per second sequential read and write. It has one slot for CF (Type I and II). It supports FireWire 400 & 800 connectivity on both Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems. It plugs and plays with no external AC power. The Extreme FireWire (FW) Reader supports the Extreme IV CF (Type I and II) cards.

Customer Reviews:

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-04
A faster reader for compact flash cards
This SanDisk firewire reader offers a definite speed improvement over standard USB 2.0 readers. For example, writing to uDMA compact flash cards occurs at a rate of 14 megabytes/second and reading occurs at a rate of 25 megabytes/second. Writing to non-uDMA compact flash cards occurs at a rate of 10 megabytes/second and reading occurs at a rate of 13 megabytes/second. In contrast, my USB 2.0 reader can write to or read from either uDMA or non-uDMA compact flash cards at a rate of 5 megabytes/second. These speed improvements are well worth the price of this firewire reader.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-16
Good product, but not as fast as I thought
I wish there was an option to give this 3.5/5 stars, but there's not so I gave it 4.

The product works well, and connects just fine to Firewire 800. I have had no issues with it and its definitely made downloading 100s of 8MP photos very easy and fast for me.

PROS
- Super fast downloads
- Easy to use, corrects to FireWire 800.
- Small footprint.

CONS
- Expensive vs. the actual performance increase. I guess I was expecting faster downloads vs. USB 2.0, but I guess just looking at the bandwidth you kind of expect this thing to not blow USB 2.0 devices out of the water.
- Only compact flash, no other devices.
- If you daisy chain this to another FireWire 800 device and are doing read/write to it, bandwidth (speed) is decreased.

Nonetheless, if you want a speed increase, this will do it, but you will pay a little more for it. Highly recommended if you are willing to spend a little extra crash for it.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-13
Works great with Exteme IV cards!
I have used this reader with both Sandisk Extreme III and Extreme IV cards, and it works fine with both. You will definitely get much quicker uploads using the Extreme IV cards. I'm very happy with the purchase!

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-09
Exellent CF reader
Fast and easy to handle CF reader. Works without any problems on both Mac OSX and Windows Vista.
Just the right size, and it feels solid.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-05
Disappointing
Like the others, getting this connected to my laptop proved fruitless. Yes, I purchased all the additional cables that were supposed to get it connected with the proper pins, but to no avail. It's in the garbage now. Would love a suggestion on a fast way to download huge RAW format photos without the hassle of this device.