Sandisk Extreme FireWire Reader
by SanDisk
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Customer Review: Don't blame Sandisk...blame Microsoft.
Summary: 4 Stars
I wanted to take advantage of 1394B 800MB Firewire on my Windows XP PC so I bought a Firewire 800 card. However, I was not able to achieve the dramatic transfer speeds that others do. After researching, I found out that Microsoft CRIPPLED Firewire in Windows XP SP2! It is limited to 100MB. They provide a fix but you have to look for it by searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base MSKB for "firewire" and you will find the patch to download. You may also have to edit your registry.
Why did this happen and why has it not been fixed? Why doesn't Sandisk warn us about it? Who knows, but I hope this information helps you.
Customer Review: bought it and returned it
Summary: 1 Stars
Hmmm - no option for zero stars.
The reader would not work on the firewire 800 interface; it worked on the firewire 400 interface. Got a run around from SanDisk support so I sent it back.
I have a firewire 800 PCI card in my desktop that has 9-pin connectors. Using the nine-pin to nine-pin cable that was supplied with the reader never worked while the nine-pin to six pin connector worked fine on the slower firewire 400 interface. Since I already have a multi-card reader that works fine on USB 2 it made little sense to keep this single-purpose card reader that didn't work as expected.
Customer Review: Unusable
Summary: 1 Stars
SanDisk should make it clear that you can't actually *use* it, in many cases. This is unusable because most laptops supply only the 4-pin firewire connector. Furthermore, if you happen to lose or damage the supplied cable, you're hosed. It's a proprietary cable on the reader end of the cable. And from what I can tell, Sandisk doesn't sell the cable separately. So they've done their best to make your life difficult.
I would recommend instead what I got... the Delkin PCI-Express CF Card adapter. It's even faster, cheaper, and doesn't require an oddball connector that won't fit on most computers.
Customer Review: sandisk disappoints me
Summary: 1 Stars
i was SO excited that this product was finally released (a compact super-high-speed reader with both firewire and usb). i ordered it, it didn't work. i called sandisk, i tried it on 2 computers, nada. had to exchange it (which when shipping stuff back and forth is a hassle). next one, SAME THING, won't mount to the computer, any computer. had to return that one too. i've heard both good and bad things about sandisk over the years so i've always bought lexar, but in good faith i thought i'd give sandisk a try, burn me once shame on you, burn me twice shame on me. i'll be avoiding sandisk in the future.Customer Review: A faster reader for compact flash cards
Summary: 5 Stars
This SanDisk firewire reader offers a definite speed improvement over standard USB 2.0 readers. For example, writing to uDMA compact flash cards occurs at a rate of 14 megabytes/second and reading occurs at a rate of 25 megabytes/second. Writing to non-uDMA compact flash cards occurs at a rate of 10 megabytes/second and reading occurs at a rate of 13 megabytes/second. In contrast, my USB 2.0 reader can write to or read from either uDMA or non-uDMA compact flash cards at a rate of 5 megabytes/second. These speed improvements are well worth the price of this firewire reader.