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Title: Don't recommend
Review: Could only get 37.2 MB/sec (39,000,000 bytes/sec) write/read speed, using the 45 MB/sec Lexar CF card. I was surprised at the bottleneck presented by the Addonics card, because it hooks directly to a SATA port on a very fast computer. Addonics claims the device is constrained only by whatever UDMA CF is used, which I now don't believe. I read/write to SATA disk at 68-70 MB/sec, so it must be the Addonics device that's slowing things down.Hot swap doesn't work, or at least I couldn't get it to work with an Intel 965 chipset and ICR9 2920 SATA controller. Consequently, you have to power down before inserting a new card in order for it to recognize the new card's parameters - a huge inconvenience. It doesn't work well with non-UDMA cards, either - it read my 133X write-accelerated Lexar at about 24X max. The 3.5" form-factor tray was convenient, but the other hassles outweight that benefit.
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