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Title: Fast. Reliable. Need I say more?
Review: The reviews said this is the second fastest CF reader on the market, and even though I'm a stickler for speed, I purchased this one. Why? This one is happy to use the USB connector on my laptop.The faster one is SanDisk's Firewire-based reader. The Firewire-based reader requires the larger 6-pin firewire cable because the reader needs to draw its power from the computer. The smaller 4-pin Firewire connector found on laptops isn't sufficient to power the Firewire reader. So, if I wanted that fast reader, and I wanted to use it on my laptop, I would have to buy a PCMCIA Firewire card for my laptop in addition to the CF card reader. And I'd have to carry that PCMCIA card around, not lose it, break it, etc. More hassle than I was willing to deal with.This USB-based CF reader is sufficiently fast for me. With a full 8GB SanDisk Extreme III card, I was able to copy off all the files in about 5 minutes. For my uses, that'll do nicely.
