Sandisk Firewire card reader speed?

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Does anyone have the Sandisk Firewire card reader? I was thinking about picking it up when I'm back in the States in a couple of weeks but on the Sandisk website, although it says it is compatible with FW400/800 it only reports a read speed of up to 40mb/second. Is this just old info and with the newer 60mb Extreme cards would it be faster?

There seems to be not a lot of info about this card reader but the Lexar one is advertised as FW800 with lightening fast read times...it just looks a bit uglier and bulkier than the Sandisk one.

So, anyone own the Sandisk one who can shed some light on the speed on FW800 ports with the latest fast cards?

Thanks all :)
 
looks like its just 40MB/s so its probably Firewire400 (will still work in an 800 socket but it will throttle back to 400).

if youve got a laptop you could try the SanDisk Extreme® Pro™ ExpressCard™ Adapter, rated at 2.5Gbps (90 MB/sec) :D
 
I am also interested in this as my usb one is very very slow, does anyone know how they compare to a firewire one, is it worth the upgrade?

sorry to hijack.
 
I have one and it is visibly faster than a USB one but no idea of the relative speed info.
 
i have one and could not get it to work on my laptop as it needs to have a power source connected. I am told by sandisk that it is designed for Mac users.
If anyone knows a way of getting it to work without the additional power source i would appreciate the info. ( sorry to hijack the thread slightly )

Stew
 
stewsmith said:
i have one and could not get it to work on my laptop as it needs to have a power source connected. I am told by sandisk that it is designed for Mac users.
If anyone knows a way of getting it to work without the additional power source i would appreciate the info. ( sorry to hijack the thread slightly )

Stew
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Mine just plugs into the firewire point on my desktop (Win 64XP), there is no other plug on the reader, so no idea where you would fit an external power supply?
 
neil_g said:
looks like its just 40MB/s so its probably Firewire400 (will still work in an 800 socket but it will throttle back to 400).

if youve got a laptop you could try the SanDisk Extreme® Pro™ ExpressCard™ Adapter, rated at 2.5Gbps (90 MB/sec) :D
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I've got a unibody 15" MBP so it doesn't have an express slot, just and SD slot :|
 
Mikesphotaes said:
Mine just plugs into the firewire point on my desktop (Win 64XP), there is no other plug on the reader, so no idea where you would fit an external power supply?
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I had to buy a cardbus adapter to run it off my laptop, which did have a power in socket. My laptop has the sony firewire slot which was noooo good. i tried usb to firewire convertors and other things and still no good. i even tried a different sandisk card reader as i thought the 1st one was a dud.

Stew
 
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