Maybe it's a stealth upgrade to newer *ist-D's - my *ist-D hooked directly to the PC and my USB 1.1 card reader both take about 20 minutes to download 1 gig of data. My X-Drive II takes only ~5 minutes for the same transfer using USB 2. The card in the X-Drive reader is somewhat faster than USB 1.1 at ~15 minutes - don't know what conectivity is in the X-Drive.

- MCC

At 07:40 AM 3/31/2004 -0500, you wrote:
"Greg Lovern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>New review of the *ist D at Imaging Resource:
>
>  http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/ISTD/ISTDA.HTM
>
>Very positive; maybe the most positive I've read.

Now *here's* an interesting excerpt from that review:

"While the manual claims that the *ist D only supports the USB v1.1
interface standard, my own tests seemed to show that it's actually
running at USB v2.0 speeds. I clocked its download speed at 1963
KB/second with a Lexar 24x memory card, connected to my Sony VAIO
Windows XP workstation. (2.4 GHz Pentium IV processor, 512 MB of RAM.)
This is quite fast: Cameras with USB v1.1 interfaces top out at a little
over 600 KB/second. I've seen USB 2.0-equipped cameras move data as
quickly as several MB/second, but the *ist D's download speed is faster
than average, even among cameras with USB 2.0 interfaces."

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