clayh Posted December 18, 2009 Share #1 Posted December 18, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just curious if anyone has run across an SDHC compatible Firewire 800 interface card reader? I see a lot of CF format Firewire interface card readers, but none for SDHC cards. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 18, 2009 Posted December 18, 2009 Hi clayh, Take a look here Do SDHC / Firewire card readers exist?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jaapv Posted December 18, 2009 Share #2 Posted December 18, 2009 Alas, I have been looking for them as well. There may be a Lexar one out recently, but I am not sure it works better than USB 2.0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 18, 2009 Share #3 Posted December 18, 2009 Alas, I have been looking for them as well. There may be a Lexar one out recently, but I am not sure it works better than USB 2.0 Going by the speed my external HD's run on USB2, FW400 and FW800, even FW400 runs at about 2+ times the speed of USB2, irrespective of what the specs of the connections are. FW800 is lightning fast. FW card readers seem to have vanished lately. I had an old one for CF cards to the odd Sony FW IEE connection. I was looking for an FW reader this summer to leave permanently attached to my iMac and ended up getting a USB San Disk Image Mate, which works very well CompactFlash® Card Reader - Transfer Data Fast and Easy | SanDisk but I could not find an FW SDHC reader. SD or CF yes; SDHC no. Wilson Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted December 18, 2009 Share #4 Posted December 18, 2009 Lexar - Flash memory card readers - Pro CF Reader This is the newest Lexar UDMA dual slot reader which seems to be what we are looking for Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgenper Posted December 18, 2009 Share #5 Posted December 18, 2009 Lexar - Flash memory card readers - Pro CF Reader This is the newest Lexar UDMA dual slot reader which seems to be what we are looking for That´s the one I´m using. While it is good and fast, it´s still USB 2, not FW. While it´s noticeably faster than the Sandisk one it replaces, I wouldn´t say it runs rings around it. Never mind, there´s coffee to be drunk while downloading..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcg Posted December 18, 2009 Share #6 Posted December 18, 2009 Yes, you can get them in most decent computer shops - about £70. The much maligned Ken Rockwell wrote about them a few months ago and reckons they are great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamiji Posted December 18, 2009 Share #7 Posted December 18, 2009 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Hoodman makes reader. RAW FireWire 800/400 CF Reader-Hoodman Corporation But alas its CF only Edited December 18, 2009 by swamiji Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 18, 2009 Share #8 Posted December 18, 2009 Everyone and their uncle seems to make CF/FW readers. Why nobody for an SDHC card? My guess is that until very recently, the read speed of SDHC cards was less than the USB2 transfer speed limit. Now that we have 30 mbps cards as a matter of course and 40 mbps ones just becoming available, we may see an FW reader soon. Wilson Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted December 19, 2009 Share #9 Posted December 19, 2009 There are adapters that will let you use a SD or SDHC card in a CF slot. I do not have any experience with these, but know they are out there. I don't know if there is a price to be paid in speed that offsets the benefit of firewire. Perhaps someone here might comment. I'd have mixed feelings myself because while my MacPro has firewire slots, my MacBook is one of those that doesn't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Nomad64 Posted December 21, 2009 Share #10 Posted December 21, 2009 Everyone and their uncle seems to make CF/FW readers. Why nobody for an SDHC card? My guess is that until very recently, the read speed of SDHC cards was less than the USB2 transfer speed limit. Now that we have 30 mbps cards as a matter of course and 40 mbps ones just becoming available, we may see an FW reader soon. Wilson If you buy any Lexar SDHC card you'll get for free an USB2 reader/adapter. It's pretty fast and however faster than shovelling any SD card in an USB2 reader. Don't ask me why because I don't know. I only know that it's so for my own stuff and I suspect that regardless of the connection type- be it USB2 or FW - the bottleneck be always the card itself. Cheers, Bruno Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted December 21, 2009 Share #11 Posted December 21, 2009 If you buy any Lexar SDHC card you'll get for free an USB2 reader/adapter. It's pretty fast and however faster than shovelling any SD card in an USB2 reader. Don't ask me why because I don't know. I only know that it's so for my own stuff and I suspect that regardless of the connection type- be it USB2 or FW - the bottleneck be always the card itself. Cheers, Bruno Bruno, Since upgrading to a MacBook Pro 13" this summer, I have a built in SD car reader. For my iMac, I have the desktop Sandisk one, which will also do the Memory Stick Duo out of my wife's Sony TG3 HD Video/Still camera. I just would rather have bought a Firewire one for a desktop rather than a USB2 one. Even better would be a dual port FW one, so that it could be daisy chained. Wilson Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wieni Posted December 21, 2009 Share #12 Posted December 21, 2009 Take a look at this page. Rob Galbraith tested some USB readers and provides information on their transfer speed: Rob Galbraith DPI: Card-to-Computer: SD/SDHC Readers Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted December 21, 2009 Share #13 Posted December 21, 2009 I wanted to do this and got the Lexar firewire reader. Save your money. It's junk, doesn't want to talk to either my windoze machine or my Mac, and I'm happily using the 12-in-1 usb reader that works properly. Dunno how the Lexar people stay in business. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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