Customer Reviews

Delkin Devices CARDBUS 32-BIT HI SPEED ( DDCARDBUS-AD )

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The review above says Mac not compatible. However, there are now OSX drivers on the Delkin site.

I've been using this for a couple of weeks now. The performance of this adapter with a *fast* CF or Microdrive is awesome - I can download at least 3 times faster than I could with a standard (16 bit) PC card adapter - I think even faster than my FireWire CF card reader.

However, if you try this with the typical 4x speed CF card, you'll see no difference, because even a 12x and a 40x card seem to run at about the same speed on a 16-bit PC adapter.

This Cardbus adapter seems to be able to get every last bit out of the faster CF cards.

Card was easy to get working with Windows XP and Windows 2000, I didn't try on Vista.

Using HDTach, I get read speeds with UDMA cards of about 33-35MB/sec. Using a CF-SATA adapter, my fastest card (35MB/sec in Delkin) can be read at 42MB/sec.

Access times are good, with best card, .5 ms, compared to .4ms in CF-SATA adapter. CPU usage was 4% compared to 7% with CF-SATA.

If you're using this for reading photos, you probably don't care about write speed... but there's other uses for this device. With a stopwatch and copying large files from a Ramdisk, I get about 11MB/sec with my fastest card.

EDIT: Note that there might be different versions of this card. Mine has the same model number as listed here, but is followed after a space by "BAK". The sticker is a little different, showing "UDMA" on it. If you buy one, just in case, you might want to make sure the sticker says "UDMA".

There is no support for 64 bit Vista. By no support I mean
- no driver available on their web site
- no information about when it might be available
- no response to numerous messages sent to tech support.

Save your money and buy something else.

I originally think it can be used for my CF GPRS card. But it seems not. The device can not be recognized by WinXP if I do not install driver. But if I install driver, it will be considerred as a disk.

While product promises you Vista compatibility unfortunately its driver hungs Vista machine.
Second disappointing thing is Delkin Support, which stopped responding to me after I showed them that their driver has compatibility issue. They never replied to any of my next mails.

I recently bought the Delkin eFilm Pro CardBus Adapter and it is amazing! It used to take forever to transfer images from my 1GB CompactFlash card using a standard PCMCIA adapter. With the Delkin it takes a couple minutes, AND doesn't freeze my computer like the PCMCIA used to.

To me it's a no brainer. If you regularly transfer images using your PCMCIA slot, this is a must have. It's really one of the best accessories you can get for your digital camera.

Easy to install and blazing fast transfer speed. Only drawback is that i have to take the cardbus out to pull my memory card out. No biggie...transfer speed is what i needed and got.

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There are no driver windows VISTA! When I called and talked to Delkin they told me that they do not have estimate on when one will be availible. The XP driver will NOT install because it uses and temp directory that does not exsit on VISTA. Next I tried un zipping the XP driver manualy and install the drive myself. This worked for a few photos and then hung the machine.

The short story here is if you have VISTA DON'T buy this card! It wouldn't work until they write a new VISTA driver and they don't seem to care about it. They offer no work around, no beta and no date that it will be fixed.

Simple, fast, straightforward to use--slide in your compact flash card into the Delkin and put it into your PCMIA laptop slot. You will have to install the driver for the Delkin, but that isn't hard to do at all. Download the driver from the Delkin site and follow the instructions.

Regarding the speed for transferring files--whatever type of file you got(jpegs, movies, documents, etc...)-- it is drastically faster than the 16-bit versions of these PCMIA card readers, and about the same speed as USB 2.0, more or less. I had bought a 16 bit PCMIA compact flash card reader(made by Sandisk) prior to the Delkin purchase, and comparing the speeds of both, Delkin took less than half the time the Sandisk took to transfers files.