Addonics SATA CF adapter reads 8gb CF in 3:15

[Michael Morlan]

Hi all,

I tried the Addonics SATA CF card reader on my quad-core PC today and am pleased to note it reads a full 8gb RED CF card in 3:15. Check it:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/08/18/accelerated_compact_flash/index.html

Notes:

From the above review: "One drawback of the Addonics device is that only the very latest SATA controllers and chipsets support the hot swap function. These include latest generation models from Intel (with ICH7 Southbridge) and the nForce4 from NVIDIA. This affects how you can use the cards; without hot swap, the system has to be restarted before it detects the CF card and makes it accessible under Windows."

My CF reader works flawlessly with my ASUS Maximus Formula motherboard's SATA ports set to AHCI (and Intel's Matrix Storage Manager installed.) Follow the rather complex steps noted in the following link to enable SATA hot swap on your PC:

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831

Michael

 

[Dylan Reeve]

Yup, definitely the most efficient way to move the files off the CF - although still going to be bottlenecked by the card's capabilities.

 

[Chris Swartz]

I found mixed results with the onboard, but if you buy a cheap pci or pci-e card from addonics $30 with the Sil chipset, it works everytime.

It is without doubt the fastest way to get footage off your CF card. CF to SATA

Chris

 

[Brent J. Craig]

Interesting. I believe that is how footage gets onto the card as well!

 

[Dylan Reeve]

Yup. SATA interface to the CF module, which is probably something pretty similar to the Addonics adaptor.

 

[Daniel García]

esata expresscard macbook pro

esata expresscard macbook pro

Any experience using an eSata-Expresscard adaptor and this CF-Sata one to capture the footage with a macbook pro? Would it be more or less efficient than a fast CF-Expresscard adaptor?

How about using it to transfer to redundant hard drives on the other port of the eSata adaptor? Does anybody have any insight/experience about how this might work out?

Aside from the fact that a custom housing would be needed, but addonics themselves seem to have plenty of these.

I was thinking something along this

 

[Dylan Reeve]

Addonics have some very cool stuff...

I could have sworn they had a little bay that takes 4x 2.5" drives in one 5.25" drive slot... Can't find it now.

If you get one of the Addonics Hardware Port Multipliers, it should work on just about anything.

 

[Dylan Reeve]

AHA!

Found it:
http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_system/ae4rcs25nsa.asp

They sell it in an enclosure with a hardware multiplier.

Get the SATA->CF adaptor... http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adsacf.asp

Put it in an enclosure...
http://www.addonics.com/products/Enclosures/zebra.asp#combo

All untested speculation of course... For a proven solution you'll be wanting to buy a ShotWrangler SolidStore, of course

 

[Shawn R]

Anyone else try this stuff?

 

[Mike Harrington]

I may try this....

I went through 3 card readers before I could find one that would unload my card in less then an hour(16 gig)

2 of them could never register there was a card in there at all....this is on 3 seperate computers...and one was a lexar pro reader..

I am considering a firewire 800 card for my pc, and then a firewire 800 card reader...bypasses the digital handshake that usb devices have to go through

but this addonics device should run at sata speeds...at least theoretically

right now I am lucky to get transfer rates of 7-9Mb per second...usb 2 should be able to do 60Mb/sec (480mbits/8) and the card itself should be good for 40-45...so there is something other becoming the bottleneck.

 

[Daniel García]

I don't think usb2 can do over 25mb/s, unless things have changed a lot in the last few months. I even think the bottleneck on the mac platform was somewhere around 18 Mb/s.

Sad, I know, and nowadays not even apple seems to be willing to back Firewire.

 

[Mike Harrington]

depends whether or not you are talking MB megabytes or mb megabits
it's theoretical limit is 480mb/sec
or 60 MB/sec
usb 1.0 was 11MB/sec

i just tested my fastest usb stick and it gets 16.3 MB/sec= 130mbit/sec...thats with a usb stick, i have a portable raid setup on usb that i can edit 1080p with no problem(cineform though...so maybe 35-40MB sec)

I doubt you'll ever see the full 60 MB/Sec though....

 

[Shawn R]

I tried a version of this.

First, I have a Dell XPS m1710 and use a LaCie Firewire Card. Off of the Red Drive its about 33MB/s.

I am trying out the addonics dual in the optical drive slot. I only get a 23 MB/s r/w. The driver needs to be changed for it to work properly though. Now just to find a driver that dell doesn't know exists.

 

[Simon Baechler]

I can copy a full 8GB card in under two minutes with this reader.