Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader
by SanDisk
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Customer Review: Outstanding Performance
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased mine over 6 months ago and have transferred ~20,000 images without incident; it has been used to transfer images to both Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and iMac computers. Using this card reader, the transfer speed is an order of magnitude faster than using the camera's USB connection plus you don't have to tether your camera to your computer. Given that I usually have a long telephoto lens attached to my Nikon D300 and it can be a pain to re-seal the USB port's cover on the camera, this freedom of having to connect the camera to the computer was what initially prompted me to purchase the card reader. The blinding speed at which the images are transferred is what has kept me using the card reader.Customer Review: Ain't nothin faster!
Summary: 5 Stars
In a firewire 800 hole I get 45mb/s with a 300x UDMA card. That's much better than any usb crap I've tried. Some people are getting even faster with faster cards, so there may even be room to grow!
It's tiny and fits in my camera bag. Works with fw400 with the supplied cable. A little flaky on some systems using fw400 after swapping cards a few times. Depends on the system. Fw800 is always solid though.
And it was only $35. Worth every penny and then some! This thing saves me time when money is on the line. It actually has cost me negative money to own this. The picture should have twenty dollar bills shooting out. It's that good!
Customer Review: major FAIL
Summary: 1 Stars
This was a great product and may work well on some computers.
Beware - the card reader does work on MBP i7's running 10.6.5.
Here is SanDisk's response.
"The Extreme Firewire reader predates Mac 10.6.5. When the Extreme firewire reader was release, it was tested to work with almost all operating systems. That being said, it seems that something have change on the firewire of the new Mac versions as the reader works with later versions except for their new one which is 10.6.5. Unfortunately we do not have a firmware update for the reader or any fix. You may need to contact Mac about this for a possible resolution."
Customer Review: Problems?
Summary: 4 Stars
In the past week I've had 2 separate cards not work when inserted into this reader. I've formatted the cards in camera and shot about 100 photos. I put in the reader and they are corrupted and I've lost all of the shots. I'm not sure if this is a CF card problem - I've used the cards again with the same reader and had no problem. It is intermittent. The only thing that I did yesterday was remove the CF card from the reader without ejecting it. I then put it in the camera and formatted 2x. Shot photos went to put back into reader and poof the shots are no good. Put the card back in the camera and they are no good there too.
Any ideas?
Customer Review: Sandisk Extreme Firewire CF Reader
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a Nikon D200 camera and shoot in NEF mode which results in a file that is 15mb in size per shot, and purchased the new Sandisk Extreme IV 4GB Compact flash card. Even with USB 2.0 downloading a full card was a 10+ min chore no matter what I did. After buying the new Extreme Firewire Reader my troubles went away. I can now download a full card in around 3 minutes. The only thing about this card is you need AT LEAST a Firewire 400 connection or the newer 800 connection which is what I download through. If you use ANY compact flash cards, this will pay for itself in a short period of time! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!