RED STATIONS arrived!

[Mark L. Pederson]

The FCC delay is over.

Our first batch of RED STATIONS arrived today!

LOVE them. LOVE them. LOVE them.

Excellent build quality. Did I mention that I LOVE them?

Some snaps from my iPhone -

 

[Jarred Land]

Glad you like them.

 

[Tony Augustinack]

Can't wait to get mine!

 

[Antonio Forjaz]

they look great, I am looking forward for the SSD ones as well as the SSD's for the RED

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Looks like I wil be finally putting something else on top of my Red Station

 

[Laco Zamba]

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?

What is it? Another CF card reader?

 

[michael zaletel]

What is it? Another CF card reader?

In truth, a Rose by any other name would [NOT] smell as sweet.

This is a RED CF Card Reader thank you very much. I want one!



-michael zaletel

 

[Chris Ratledge]

SSD module becomes commonplace and I'll pick one up. Unless also available with a LEMO connector/dock for drives to connect to CPU via eSATA.

 

[PaulClements]

What about speeds then? What's the difference in speed between the Red CF readers and a Lexar FW800 at offloading a full 16GB card?
Paul

 

[Kwan Khan]

Congratulation mark.

 

[AnthonyFlores]

Also curious about an SSD version of the Red Station ... is that
in the works?

 

[George Tsai]

Also curious about an SSD version of the Red Station ... is that
in the works?

http://www.red.com/store/media

redmags, eventually

 

[Shane Betts]

Received our email today! Woo Hoo!

 

[Sam Winzar]

Just got my RED STATION CF today. Very nice piece of kit.

I did some quick tests using the AJA System Test tool. Here are the results

Lexar FW800 CF Reader - Write: 51.1 MB/s Read: 72.8 MB/s
RED STATION CF (FW800) - Write: 51.1 MB/s Read: 79.1 MB/s
RED STATION CF (eSATA) - Write 52.5 MB/s Read: 86.2 MB/s

Tests were done on my 17" MacBook Pro using the Sonnet Tempo Sata Pro Express Card for eSata.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Sam, interesting numbers... What CF media were you using? What are the specs of the MBP and what else was connected?

 

[Sam Winzar]

Used a RED 16GB CF card, MacBook Pro is 5,2 model with 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 8GB of RAM. Running Snow Leopard 10.6.4.

Tests were fairly quick and dirty. Pretty sure I had Safari, Nambu (Twitter Client), and Mail running at the same time.

 

[Vico Martin]

Used a RED 16GB CF card, MacBook Pro is 5,2 model with 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 8GB of RAM. Running Snow Leopard 10.6.4.

Tests were fairly quick and dirty. Pretty sure I had Safari, Nambu (Twitter Client), and Mail running at the same time.

Thanks for the numbers man.
Vico.

 

[Matt Uhry]

LOVE them. LOVE them. LOVE them.

Could you substantiate this statement ? I'm a big fan of black shiny things too, but am having trouble seeing the weight / size / cost benefit of this one over a good quality FW800 card reader.

Especially when I can't wait to ditch my CF's and go SSD.

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

 

[AaronPicot]

Would love to see this comparison if someone could accommodate, that would be cool:

FULL 16GB CF card offloaded using R3D DM
MacPro Dual Quad or 8 core system.
How long to offload to 2 eSata drives simultaneously?

1 - LexarFW800
vs
2 - RED STATION eSata

(forget showing RED STATION FW800 results, pretty sure no one cares)

 

[David Battistella]

Mark,

Congratulations. The build quality looks nice.

I thought that CF's were EOL'd with EPIC? Is this true?

David