OK. Thanks. My notebook has 2 PCMCIA slots and USB 1.1. I probably should be asking which of those two is faster.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A RAW question... > > How does the speed on a PCMCIA adapter compare to firewire speed? Much slower. A 1GB microdrive takes something like 20 mins to copy to my notebook (not quite as fast a system as my desktop box, but still a fairly reasonable system - it's a 2.4GHz P4 HP pavilion). As noted, the firewire transfer runs about 3x or 4x that speed, and that's limited by the transfer speed of the Microdrive. With a fast CF card transfer speeds should be significantly higher. At present I'm wondering whether to buy a USB adapter (only worth it if I've got USB 2.0 on the notebook, which I don't think I do), go for the firewire option with an external power cable adapter (rather silly, because the power supply is much larger than the CF reader), or just live with the PCMCIA adapter speeds (awkward, especially if I've got the wireless card plugged into the other PCMCIA slot). > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of John Francis > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 5:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: A RAW question... > > > > > > > Tanya Mayer wrote: > > > > > Well, it just took me exactly 1 hour and 26 minutes to download my > > > almost full Microdrive from the shoot! I think this will become one > > > of those "start it up and walk away" jobs! > > > > You'll get no sympathy here, young lady! > > I just got a big package in the mail containing all the slides I > > shot > > in California a couple of weeks ago. Almost as many as your wedding > > shoot. They'll be grinding their way through the bulk feeder on the > > slide scanner for many more hours. Talk about a "start it up and walk > > away" job! > > My new FireWire CF reader arrived today. The good news - it downloads > a full 1GB microdrive in around 6 minutes (the speed limit is the > drive). The bad news > - it's powered off the FireWire bus, so it doesn't work with my notebook > computer (which only has a 4-wire connector). I guess the PCMCIA adapter is > going to have to stay in service a little longer. >
