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Firewire SD card reader?
Michael Durisseau, Photographer, Assistant
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Santa Fe/Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 9:46 AM on 01.22.10 |
| ->> I haven't seen one...I'd even take one that read different kinds of cards, i. e., CF, SD, xD, etc. |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 12:45 AM on 01.23.10 |
->> With the current crop of SD cards (all the way up to the new "Class 10" standard), that's like putting a V8 into a Volkswagen Beetle. No matter how much horsepower you put into the thing, it's only going to go so fast.
In other words...SD cards top out in a plain-vanilla USB 2.0 reader (never mind UDMA). While I agree a Firewire multi-card reader might be convenient, there's no advantage to it...and almost anything that has a Firewire port will also have (probably more) USB ports and cost a lot less to make as well.
Get yourself one of Lexar's pop-up, dual-slot CF/SD readers...it supports UDMA for the CF card, and the SD slot is handy. It's no larger than a standard CF-only reader and cheaper than a Firewire reader. |
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