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Brand: SanDisk EAN: 0619659027995 Item Dimensions: Label: SanDisk Manufacturer: SanDisk Model: SDDRX4-CF-902 MPN: SDDRX4-CF-902 Publisher: SanDisk Release Date: November 26, 2006 Studio: SanDisk Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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** (+/- 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). *Supports ONLY 6 pin and 9 pin firewire ports. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Reader failureSANDISK EXTREME FIREWIRE READER Good item but failed after 6 months professional use. Spoke to colleague in US who had the same problem but philosophically said that 'these things don't last forever'. I would expect more than 6 months' use from such an expensive product Rating: - I'm sure it's good, but....Before buying this product, check to see if your laptop/PC has a 4-pin, 6-pin or 9-pin Firewire port. If it has only 4 pins, the reader will not work as it requires a 6 or 9 pin port. (I know it says this in the small print, but impatient types like me don't always read it!) 4 pins = no power = no good! It would perhaps have been nice for SanDisk to provide the capability for external power for those of us who are firewire pin challenged. Rating:  - great piece of equipmentWhether if you are a pro-photographer or you go abroad and take a camera, you'll now how exhausting is having to wait for the "slow usb 2.0" to download all of your pics on your mac/pc. I can now download a 4GB full of pics in less than 2 minutes (it would take over 15 with the usb). So GREAT, GREAT, piece of equipment, affordable, light, nicely designed and very easy to carry with you. Rating: - Superb piece of kit.Having got tired of waiting for the USB based card reader built into my PC to download images from my EOS300D, I had a look for faster readers. As I've got a SanDisk "Extreme III" 1 GB card, and having had a look at a test of it, I went for the Extreme Firewire reader, and it's worth every penny! The Extreme III card is rated at 20 MB/s and a quick, pretty non-scientific, test showed 16+ MB/s when I plugged it into the Extreme reader. I don't know what the specification for the built in reader I have is but images that took 7 mins to download only took 21 secs with the Extreme reader... I should perhaps have bought the reader with 2 GB "Extreme IV" bundle and saved a few £'s, but that's not a criticism!  Try searching the Internet for "SANDISK EXTREME FIREWIRE READER" or Ebay for "SANDISK EXTREME FIREWIRE READER". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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