Delkin Devices DDCFCARDBUS2-AD CardBus32 UDMA CF Adapter

List Price: $59.99 Discount Price: $59.99

Features:

• The CardBus 32 UDMA adapter transfers image files at over 45 MB/s from UDMA (Ultra Direct Memory Access) enabled CompactFlash cards to your computer.

Customer Reviews:

love the concept, hate the implementation [Posted on 2007-11-02]
OK I do want to give kudos to Delkin for producing this product. I desperately wanted this so I could pull DSLR RAW files onto my laptop in the field (because who wants to wait 30 minutes to copy a 8GB card - and who wants to haul around a Firewire UDMA reader?).

However, this report I sent to Delkin pretty much tells the story. Note that it works fine for non-UDMA cards, but so do cheaper CardBus adapters.

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Installed driver (CardBusUDMA.exe) version 0.99.14 which the latest on the Delkin website for "CARDBUS 32 UDMA ADAPTER (COMPACTFLASH)" adapter on "Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98/98/SE". Host is Thinkpad T43 running WinXP SP2.

With non-UDMA CF cards, UDMA CF adapter works as expected.

My UDMA CF card (Lexar Professional UDMA 8GB) works as expected with non-UDMA CF adapters.

When using the DDCFCARDBUS2AD with my UDMA CF card (Lexar Professional UDMA 8GB), the host becomes unusably slow, Windows error messages are logged ("The device, \Device\Scsi\utatar1, did not respond within the timeout period."), and host must be hard-rebooted. CF card never becomes visible in Explorer.

Works great with Ridata card [Posted on 2008-01-11]
I get about 10x the speed I get with a regular old PCMCIA reader, so I am thrilled. Copied 4GB in 6 minutes vs. an hour with a standard 16-bit PCMCIA reader.

Pretty fast reads, fair writes [Posted on 2008-01-24]
I've got the silver version of this card: Delkin Devices CARDBUS 32-BIT HI SPEED ( DDCARDBUS-AD )

It seems the only difference is the color, but I'm not 100% certain of that. See the above link for more reviews (including mine) and some discussion on drivers.

What my UDMA CF was missing... [Posted on 2008-06-02]
I'm using this device and UDMA CF to host a swap file. I did't expect a real performance gain when paging, but it seems I underestimated UDMA CompactFlash.

This adapter offers a great cord-free method of getting UDMA CF speed to your laptop.

As an added bonus, Delkin's driver will install the contoller driver as a kernal or system-level dependant device. I'm not sure of exact details or verbage, but I didn't have to do any "removable device" registry hacks to get it bind early enough to host a XP page file.

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