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Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader

Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader

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Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE

List Price: $73.99
Buy New: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 42 reviews

Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.6 x 2
Warranty: 3 years warranty

MPN: SDDRX4-CFR
Model: SDDRX4-CFR
UPC: 619659027964
EAN: 0619659027964
ASIN: B000I04WWY

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • SanDisk
  • Extreme CF Firewire Reader

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Editorial Reviews:

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:   Read 37 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Problems?   September 29, 2008
In the past week I've had 2 separate cards not work when inserted into this reader. I've formatted the cards in camera and shot about 100 photos. I put in the reader and they are corrupted and I've lost all of the shots. I'm not sure if this is a CF card problem - I've used the cards again with the same reader and had no problem. It is intermittent. The only thing that I did yesterday was remove the CF card from the reader without ejecting it. I then put it in the camera and formatted 2x. Shot photos went to put back into reader and poof the shots are no good. Put the card back in the camera and they are no good there too.

Any ideas?



5 out of 5 stars Saves Time for Uploading   September 18, 2008
Works as advertised and it saves you time in uploading large photos and video files.


5 out of 5 stars Great speed   September 16, 2008
Excellent product. Works as advertised. I bought it to download images from my CF card from my Nikon D300. I get a download speed of about 30MB/sec when directly downloading to the computer. That's about 2 15MB .nef files per second. I had a USB 1 CF reader before and could go out and get a coffee, come back and it would still be downloading. Now I stay at my computer. This item is sort of expensive but was money well spent.


1 out of 5 stars Unusable   September 12, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

SanDisk should make it clear that you can't actually *use* it, in many cases. This is unusable because most laptops supply only the 4-pin firewire connector. Furthermore, if you happen to lose or damage the supplied cable, you're hosed. It's a proprietary cable on the reader end of the cable. And from what I can tell, Sandisk doesn't sell the cable separately. So they've done their best to make your life difficult.

I would recommend instead what I got... the Delkin PCI-Express CF Card adapter. It's even faster, cheaper, and doesn't require an oddball connector that won't fit on most computers.



5 out of 5 stars This bad boy is SUPER FAST   August 24, 2008
I installed this on my Mac and PC and boy is this mutha fast. Im getting 1 gigabyte per minute with my SanDisk 8 meg Secure III CF Card. Its as fast as I expected , works flawlessly and is super small. Great quality that I've come to expect from SanDisk. oH YEAH , Dont get the USB card reader if you want Super Speed, get this one instead. 5 stars fo sho.

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