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Wolverine 160GB Flash Card Reader

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right mike,
thanks for your quick reply,

just read a user review, that said that the hyperdrive takes 5minutes to download the 4gb cf cards, and the wolverine takes up to 15mins,
time is of the essence for all of us ,
thanks,
F
 
HyperDrive's claim of 'Fastest Memory Card Backup' seems dubious. 1min per GB is not that fantastic.

I'll let you know soon what SolidStore can do, but I've fairly confident we'll be able to do better than that.

If using the HyperDrive or a similar product you should factor in a daily (if not more often) offload from that device, as you have only a single copy of your data while it's held on there, to minimise exposure to risk, you want to have separate duplicate copies as soon as possible.
 
Hyperdrive SPACE works great for me. The actual speed you get varies depending on the settings, the drive you have inside it, firmware, and the cards used so the quoted numbers on the website are just what they had in the testing of the original Sanho (OEM maker of the device) product. Hyperdrive ships the units with average 5400 RPM drives though I use a 7200 RPM drive with an 8MB buffer so my performance is significantly better than the average user. I use 4GB UDMA CF cards so I will have shorter transfer times than those of you using the 8GB cards but I might pick one up and give it a whirl in case anyone is interested in some real world numbers.
 
I can recommend the Nexto 2525 Not sure if its faster than the hyperdrive but we used it as an occasional backup on our recently finished Red feature and had no problems, battery life is pretty good, transfered and verified as many as 14 cards in a day . It takes a little attention to double check you've backed up each card. Ideal but slow would be to back up each card onto two identical units before erasing.
 
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I really hope this can be an ideal solution for RED (and a little later P2 and SxS)... One of the big problems with existing CF backup products is that they are not really ideally suited to this sort of application - where things like dual copies are not an option.

We'll have some more news about our product in the next few weeks I hope - still looking got good for mid-late 2008 shipping.

(Edit: Not trying to be a dirty thread hijacker, just offering my thoughts on the issue - thoughts that have driven me to develop this product in the first place).
 
It totally skipped my mind that I'll need RED files to do a valid test. Otherwise I'll just be giving you information that wouldn't be applicable to using it with RED files because the download times would certainly be different due to the extreme size differences between a still image and RED footage. Are any of those links from way back when still up? I suppose I can make some gigantic zip files from HD footage I already have. That might work just as well. Any thoughts?
 
i have the hyperdrive & Nexto .. both have 5400rpm 160gig drives ..
the hyperdrive copies and verifys in one step
the nexto does it in 2 steps ..1st it copies .. when finsihed you pull out the CF card and stick it back in to verify the data...
checking your clock = at the end of copying & verify the nexto is a little faster - sometimes 1 - 2 1/2 min faster ( even with the 2nd step) to copy 8 gig card .. all depends on how many files ..

IMO based on quick test ..7200 drive was NOT any faster then 5400 in hyperdrive/nexto perhaps because of USB2 and FW400 ? now if they had a FW800 or eSATA connections might be different ..
 
Lexicon said:
It totally skipped my mind that I'll need RED files to do a valid test. Otherwise I'll just be giving you information that wouldn't be applicable to using it with RED files because the download times would certainly be different due to the extreme size differences between a still image and RED footage. Are any of those links from way back when still up? I suppose I can make some gigantic zip files from HD footage I already have. That might work just as well. Any thoughts?
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You can use an application like 'dd' to create large test files. I can't provide a good example command line just now however...
 
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