Lexar Media RW021001 Adapter, Cf 32 Bit Cardbus Adapter (Retail Package)

List Price: $73.96

Features:

• Manufactured to the Highest Quality Available.
• With True Enhanced Performance.
• Latest Technical Development.

Customer Reviews:

Cardbus Adapter [Posted on 2007-05-15]
This is an absolute necessity for using a DSLR camera today!! Not to be confused with typical cheap PC card adapters, this Cardbus adapter is much faster to download photos....I will not use anything less since I've seen the speed difference. It includes driver software that installs in less than 1 minute, then you're ready to go. Highly recommended!!!

Fast and convenient card reader [Posted on 2007-08-02]
Another vote of confidence here. Since switching to RAW, I would dread the long downloads with my Sandisk PC card reader. What a blessing to have found the Lexar Cardbus Adapter! It's probably 4 times as fast as my old card reader when using my Sandisk Extreme III cards. If you're thinking of buying a PCMCIA adapter and are considering spending $12 less to get a standard PC card reader, stop thinking and buy the Lexar 32-bit instead! I believe in dpreview's tests that these cardbus adapters were basically as fast as firewire--and much more convenient.

good quality. fast but not fast enough. [Posted on 2007-09-05]
1. well built.
2. Fast speed. 10M byte/s read, 6M bytes/s write.
Much slower than Firewire.

Speed similar to usb2.0/firewire=not good enough [Posted on 2007-09-19]
The company's literature for this product states that it has speeds "similar to usb 2.0 and firewire." That does not cut it for me at this price point. I understand it is more portable, etc; but you can get a usb 2.0 reader that uses no cable for much less. If you really need high transfer speeds you're going to want to go with a new firewire 800 reader and pc card that adds between 2-3 ports. They transfer at 40MB/s, of course dependent on your CF card. You would think that with a direct, 60-something pin connection adapters such as these would be the fastest things going... seems like it is not the case.

Useful - and that's about the extent of it. [Posted on 2008-05-17]
I've been confident w/ buying Lexar equipment for some time now, and this CF reader does what it says. Writing and reading data appears to be relatively fast - important when I need to transfer data quickly in my job. The heavy duty plastic holding case is also nice because it does travel with me. The negative comes in for product manuals and help. The manual is essentially useless if you have any questions beyond basic installation. I had a quick question about this product and placed a call to the Lexar tech line - and was repeatly told to format my card no matter the description of the problem or the question I had. And this was the standard response of the three different techs I talked to.

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