Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader
by SanDisk
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Customer Review: DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT
Summary: 1 Stars
This was the waste of money for me. It did not even work. I wanted to use it with my HP 6910p Laptop or HP Pavillion Entertainment PC. Both has docking stations. None of the listed equipments is older than 8 months. But none of them has the FireWire connection which can be used to connect the firewire and/or iLink cables that are supplied with the product. I also checked other brands and they did not have the appropriate connection port either. Then I said "...OK let's buy PCMCIA FireWire card which has 6PIN port..." whic I did. but the SD FireWire CF Card REader did not work again. I checked internet forums. Some folks got it worked but just by chance I think. On the other hand I investigated the rrot cause. The product needs voltage to operate. 4PIN (tiny, commonly used on laptops) FireWire ports do not provide voltage. But I still do not know what is wrong with the PCMCIA card. It has 3 ports, PC/Operating System (XP) recognizes it) but not the card reader.
Regards,
Burak Imir
Customer Review: Time Saver
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Customer Review: only a half a reader...
Summary: 2 Stars
am using this reader on my macbook pro with 800 and 400 firewire ports... my external HD is using the 800 so i attached the extreme reader to the 400 port with the included 400 fw cable...
no go... it locked up my laptop spinning beach ball of death. reattached external to the 400 port and extreme reader to the 800 and it worked like a champ! very fast. and my external HD runs fine on the 400 fw port... i tried the scandisk extreme reader 4 times on the 400 fw port to no avail - it locked up my system every time!
scandisk support is futile... or worse - they let me hang on the phone for 1/2 hr before telling me i had to go to the supplier for help..
don't know what to do with this device since it only works on one port - 800fw... it's a loss since for the same price OR LESS i could get a reader that would work on multiply ports - usb or firewire.
bummed...
Customer Review: Very, very fast!
Summary: 5 Stars
For years I had been using an old card reader that was a 6-in-1. I received it as a gift and figured it would work fine. After all, all I needed was for my images to get off my CF card and onto my computer somehow. Once I upgraded my camera, I found that uploading a full 2 GB card with my old reader would take an hour. I dealt with it for a long time, but it soon became a hassle.
This new reader is amazing. It uploads the same full 2GB card in five minutes. Having it now, I can't believe I ever sat around waiting for an hour for my old card reader to process everything. Best purchase I have ever made!
--I had this for around a year and a half, and it broke - my computer wouldn't recognize it any longer. It wasn't just my computer (tried it on 3) and wasn't the cord. It was worth the money for the time I had it, but I decided not to purchase it again.
Customer Review: Works perfectly with expedient speed
Summary: 5 Stars
Not only is this an amazing product, but it hasn't failed me yet. I've rocked this for transferring full-RAW from my Canon 5d to my Macbook Pro. This is also an awesome product for the reason that it gives you the option for both firewire plug versions. I have multiple computers and when i need to transfer something immediately i have both firewire options available. The build of the card reader is also amazing for how the car is inserted. other CF card readers have the pins very close to the edge, giving the user an ability to pull the card out at an angle and potentially snapping a pin off into the CF card. (I'm a big ogre violent dude with my stuff, and it happened to my previous readers.) Since the pins are so far in, it makes it very difficult to mess with the pins. This added bonus protection that I did not read before I purchased the product was a pleasant surprise.