OK, I definitely over estimated. It took just under 4 minutes to copy 224
files, a total of 990 Megabytes from my Lexar 40x 1Gig CF card via a Lexar USB
2.0 multi-format card reader to my SCSI hard disk on my old, 550MgHz computer
With faster bus speeds, high speed HD interfaces, and a modern computer, it'd
be faster.
Skip
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Subject: [OM] Re: Q. for E-1 Owners
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:52:02 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>According to the Rob Galbraith site, the faster Lexar cards do up to
>7mb/sec in download to computer speed with the fastest card he has found
>to date, a Lexar FireWire. Thats over 400mb/min. The fast Sandisks run
>more like 11mb/sec, or about 650mb/min. So an under 2 minute time is
>certainly possible with Sandisk and close to that with Lexar, but will
>depend on specific hardware and software.
>
>Moose
>
>Skip Williams wrote:
>
>>I'll check when I get home. It sure seemed faster than 5 minutes. But maybe
>>I was just so blown over by how much faster USB 2.0 was than USB 1.0, I
>>over-estimated.
>>
>>In any case, 5 min is fine. It's a far cry from the externity I used to wait.
>>
>
>
>
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