- Extreme CF Firewire Reader
- FireWire (IEEE 1394)
- CompactFlash I Card and CompactFlash II Card
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The Extreme FireWire (FW) Reader is a high performance reader, which provides you a complete digital system/solution for your photography needs. It offers the highest performance requirement: 40MB/sec (+ or - buffer) sequential read and write. It has one slot for CF (Type I and II). It supports FireWire 800/400 connectivity on both Windows and MAC 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 (all Capacities 2, 4 and 8GB).
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86 of 87 people found the following review helpful
I recently switched over to shooting RAW (7-9 meg a shot) instead of jpeg (2-4 meg a shot) so I got myself an 8Gig Extreme III card and this reader. I have used many readers in the past, but nothing has even come close to this speed before.
I can put over 1,000 RAW files or about 4,000 jpegs on the card and then transfer them all over to my computer in just a few minutes instead of closer to a half-hour or more. It seems to average around 1Gig a minute.
It is also pretty small so you can travel with it easily. However, if your notebook PC has a 4 pin firewire connection, like many do, this will not work. Firewire needs 6 pin or higher to be able to power devices. I e-mailed SanDisk several times about this and they just gave me the run-around, so I did the research on my own to find this out. So if anyone knows of a way around this please let me know because based on what I saw it is not possible.
I can put over 1,000 RAW files or about 4,000 jpegs on the card and then transfer them all over to my computer in just a few minutes instead of closer to a half-hour or more. It seems to average around 1Gig a minute.
It is also pretty small so you can travel with it easily. However, if your notebook PC has a 4 pin firewire connection, like many do, this will not work. Firewire needs 6 pin or higher to be able to power devices. I e-mailed SanDisk several times about this and they just gave me the run-around, so I did the research on my own to find this out. So if anyone knows of a way around this please let me know because based on what I saw it is not possible.
50 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Please be aware that all the people giving this product one star reviews are Windows users. If you are a Mac user with a Firewire 400 port (either laptop or desktop, does not matter) you will be very happy with it. If you are a Mac user with a Firewire 800 port, you cannot buy a faster, or more reliable card.
I am a professional fashion photographer who shoots 21 megapixel raw files. Typical number of shots per full day of shooting is two thousand to three thousand. I shoot on Sandisk Extreme IV 8GB and 16 GB cards (even Extreme III cards are too slow for the Canon IDs Mk 3), filling up 4 to 6 cards in a day. So how fast a reader downloads files to my three drives (one main, and two back-ups) is of crucial importance.
This reader is faster and more reliable than the Lexar Firewire 800 reader. I have both, but I get data corruption with the Lexar FW800 reader - four to eight images per card end up being corrupted upon download (though they are ok on the card). I have never had an image show up corrupted when downloading using this Sandisk reader. (By the way, the Lexar Firewire 400 reader is 100% rock solid and reliable. It is slower than this Sandisk reader because the Sandisk is a FW800 reader, but I have happily used two Lexar FW400 readers for years before the FW800 readers came to market.)
I am a professional fashion photographer who shoots 21 megapixel raw files. Typical number of shots per full day of shooting is two thousand to three thousand. I shoot on Sandisk Extreme IV 8GB and 16 GB cards (even Extreme III cards are too slow for the Canon IDs Mk 3), filling up 4 to 6 cards in a day. So how fast a reader downloads files to my three drives (one main, and two back-ups) is of crucial importance.
This reader is faster and more reliable than the Lexar Firewire 800 reader. I have both, but I get data corruption with the Lexar FW800 reader - four to eight images per card end up being corrupted upon download (though they are ok on the card). I have never had an image show up corrupted when downloading using this Sandisk reader. (By the way, the Lexar Firewire 400 reader is 100% rock solid and reliable. It is slower than this Sandisk reader because the Sandisk is a FW800 reader, but I have happily used two Lexar FW400 readers for years before the FW800 readers came to market.)
52 of 57 people found the following review helpful
I wanted to take advantage of 1394B 800MB Firewire on my Windows XP PC so I bought a Firewire 800 card. However, I was not able to achieve the dramatic transfer speeds that others do. After researching, I found out that Microsoft CRIPPLED Firewire in Windows XP SP2! It is limited to 100MB. They provide a fix but you have to look for it by searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base MSKB for "firewire" and you will find the patch to download. You may also have to edit your registry.
Why did this happen and why has it not been fixed? Why doesn't Sandisk warn us about it? Who knows, but I hope this information helps you.
Why did this happen and why has it not been fixed? Why doesn't Sandisk warn us about it? Who knows, but I hope this information helps you.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Really Awesome Device.
The speed of transfer is just amazing. Transferring 8GB worth of files took only 12secs. Downside to this device is the price; kinda steep.
Published 3 months ago by Kelvin Tan
Lasted six months
It worked great on transferring our Canon 5D footage from card to computer from July until December. It started to need tinkering to read the cards about a month ago. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Lisa M. Mattson
Broken San Disk Reader
I bought this a couple of months ago to download video from my Cannon D7. It started to be intermittent a couple of weeks ago and now I hear a screw or a piece of plastic rattling... Read more
Published 4 months ago by geoffman11
Fails To Connect
It's fast once it connects, but more often than not I have to pull the card out and put it back in more than once before the computer recognizes it.
Published 8 months ago by Elliotte Rusty Harold
2 years and it's broken
After two years, this product presented as a high tech product doesn't work anymore.
Sandisk is selling bad product and i will never buy any ot them anymore. Read more
Sandisk is selling bad product and i will never buy any ot them anymore. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Salah Benacer
Buyer Beware
I have no way of knowing how good this product is, because it did not come with a cord that has a USB connection. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Linda Rice Carlton Abraham
Fast and reliable
I've had several other readers fail.
This still works.
Sometimes I have to plug/unplug a few times to register.
I use it on a mac pro. Read more
This still works.
Sometimes I have to plug/unplug a few times to register.
I use it on a mac pro. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Michael D
Great for DSLR video and nanoFlash
I use the Sandisk for home and the Lexar FW800 at work, both are very fast and are essential to instant turnaround workflows if you are shooting video with a DSLR or with a... Read more
Published 13 months ago by peacemaker
Recording Sound
Using this item to record to 8GB UDMA from SD 788T-SSD, eight channels of 24/48k,flawless performance. Read more
Published 13 months ago by WhyOne53
In Search of The Perfect CF Card Reader...
I had owned about 4 cheap USB card readers prior to purchasing this little guy here. All of them eventually perished after limited amounts of use. Read more
Published 13 months ago by C. Brown
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