Just what I needed. . .
I had been looking for a way to transfer my photos from a CF card to my Dell computer. I had a USB adapter but it was too slow and I kept misplacing it. Now I can fit the adapter into the Expresscard slot and it stays there. And it was fast, fast, fast. I was able to transfer just over 200 photos in less than a minute! Before, this would take close to 10 minutes. And I...
Not impressed with speed
Well I bought this version based on the other reviews about the speed etc.
The unit fits in to the expresscard slot as intended, I agree with other review about it is difficult to eject the CF without the whole Express card coming out too, but it isn't a problem.
The problem I have is with the supposed speed.
I was downloading a file from Lexar...
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I had been looking for a way to transfer my photos from a CF card to my Dell computer. I had a USB adapter but it was too slow and I kept misplacing it. Now I can fit the adapter into the Expresscard slot and it stays there. And it was fast, fast, fast. I was able to transfer just over 200 photos in less than a minute! Before, this would take close to 10 minutes. And I have no trouble inserting the CF card. The adapter doesn't sit completely flush with my computer, but that's such a minor detail for me, considering how fast and convenient transferring photos have become. So glad I got this!
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The item took a bit more than a week, but worth waiting for. It flushes completely in my lenovo t400 and transfers data super fast. At first I thought i wanted to buy a Delkin brand, but I am glad buying this one, it works and my cf card slides smoothly inside the reader.
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My only gripe is that you can't just plug and unplug the CF card from the device. You need to eject the whole device from the computer before you can attach a CF card. Other than that, it works great and the speed is very nice.
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When you have the adapter inserted into the laptop's Express slot and you are then inserting the CF card into the adapter, when you go to click the CF card into the adapter pins the CF adapter pops out of the side of the Express slot thus causing Windoze OS to lose communication with the card's virtual drive map function. This can sometimes raise hell with the OS especially if you lose communication and them reestablish the link and lose it again three or four times before aligning the CF card into the adapter and then getting the CF adapter to click and lock back into the Express card slot. This adapter fits flush with the side of my HP laptop and probably yours as well. This is good because it turns a useless Express card slot into a handy, high speed CF card slot allowing pro photographers to leave the card readers and cables at home. /transfer speeds are faster than USB 2.0. So a 4GB Sandisk II card takes about 1.5 to 2 mins to transfer say 200 Raw images. That about 14 to 16 MB/s. That's about 1/3 to 1/2 the speed of say a Sata II internal to internal HD transfer running at about 35 to 47 MB/s. So it beats the pants off USB but be certain that this baby is fully inserted and locked into the slot before you start a data transfer. If this adapter pops out in mid transfer you stand to loose or corupt whatever files were getting transfered. Hopefully its not the cover shot that's paying all the bills that month.
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Open box, install driver cd, install pcexpress CF card reader and that's all their is to it! To copy 300mb of jpegs via usb2 takes approx 6 minutes, to copy the same files via this card - 20 seconds, fast faster and fastest (that's until usb3 CF card readers appear). I only have two gripes about this card; 1.it's not always easy to slot any CF card into its respective slot, and 2: When you pull the CF card out of your machine, the reader comes with it! However, there is one other bonus I forgot to mention, this card sits out of the way in my Toshiba laptop perminantly, you wouldn't know it was there unless you hunted for it. Would I buy another -yes, no hesitation at all, the difference in speed is more than worth it - nice!
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I was looking for a good adapter to download RAW files from a CF card on my Thinkpad T400, running Windows 7 Professional.
There were a few hiccups trying to install this card. When I plugged this adapter into the slot, it crashed Windows twice. So I downloaded the Vista driver from Datafab's website (there is no Win 7 driver) and tried to install it, but it didn't work either.
Here is how I finally got it to work. I restarted the computer with the adapter already in the expresscard slot. (I actually had to hard reset the computer, since it crashed when the adapter was inserted.) Once it booted up, I installed the Vista driver successfully. Now the adapter works.
Also ran a speed test. It took 4 minutes 5 seconds to download 9.22GB of raw files, which is about 38 MB/sec. Very quick. (By contrast, it took 6 min 15 sec to download the same files via USB, straight from the camera. 23 MB/sec.)
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This reader works nicely and has good performance on my systems, with a minor footnote that Windows 2000 Pro does not work well with it until after reboot (refuses to engage DMA mode). On Windows 7 Ultimate, it comes up in DMA mode just fine even on the first insertion. But don't just use the OS drivers (see below).
I can leave the adapter mounted and it does not stick out of my machine. In this position, I can (with a little care, but not much difficulty) insert a CF card and the system will detect and can access the CF card.
Originally, I had an issue where I could not remove the CF card from the reader and insert another one (the OS would not see the new card until I removed and reinserted the reader). An update to the latest drivers from DataFab has resolved this, and now I can leave the reader mounted and insert/remove CF media without having to remove the entire reader.
Admittedly it is a little tricky to get a card into the reader with the reader mounted, but with a little patience it can be done.
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After downloading the drivers it worked fine on Win 7 64 bit, nice and fast and the adapter just stays in the Lenovo Laptop as I don't have any other PC cards that might need the slot.
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Well I bought this version based on the other reviews about the speed etc.
The unit fits in to the expresscard slot as intended, I agree with other review about it is difficult to eject the CF without the whole Express card coming out too, but it isn't a problem.
The problem I have is with the supposed speed.
I was downloading a file from Lexar Professional CF 133X, this one file contained 93 RAW images taken with a Canon 20D, it took 20mins to download this file.
In the past I have use a USB card reader and downloaded a similar file size in less than 5 mins
Maybe someone can shed some light on this situation for me.
I am running a Toshiba Satellite A205 notebook, running 2gb of Ram on a 160gb hard drive
on a pentium dual core chip.
I don't know what the deal is, help is needed.
A Morris
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