20 minutes? There's something wrong with your SUB 2.0 connection. It takes about 3 minutes per Gigabyte on my Win2K machine with no name SUB2.0 reader.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Downloading the raw files at GFM this spring took about 20 minutes per card, >on the mac >usb2. Nico lent me his firewire >card reader and that time went down to about 90 seconds. > >I'm looking for one to. ><g> > >Dave > > > Well I finally decided that I needed to speed > up my memory card > > >>downloading - especially with an eye toward a couple of jobs coming up >>- so I decided to look into getting an IEEE1394 card reader. And with >>the prospect of the new K10D and SD cards (grrrr...) in the near >>future, a multi-format, or at least CF and SD, reader seemed the way >>to go. Surprisingly enough, there aren't a lot of them around. >>I ended up ordering an Addonics AESDMD2FW "Mini Digidrive". >>It arrived yesterday and though I don't have another Firewire card >>reader with which to compare it, I can certainly tell that it's much >>faster than my current USB2 card reader. (Over twice as fast, which >>leads me to suspect that my old card reader isn't operating at full >>USB2 speed, but that's another story...) >> >>Here's the buy.com link for this item: >> >> >> >http://www.buy.com/prod/Addonics_Mini_Digidrive_7_In_1_Flash_Reader_Firewire_2_Slots/q/loc/101/10341066.html > > > >>They aren't kidding when they say that this item sells out quickly: I >>went through a lot of on line shops and couldn't find *any* that had >>it when I originally ordered it. It was back-ordered about a week >>before it shipped. >> >>-- >>Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia >>www.robertstech.com >>412-687-2835 >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > > > > > -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
