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Is it worth it to get a firewire compact flash reader over a USB reader?

CompactFlash drives are around 2-5 MByte/s on reads and even slower on writes, not even remotely fast enough to saturate USB.

regards, Peter
 
I am confused. In terms of reading from the firewire, would it be quicker? Is it worth to spend the extra $ for firewire rather than a USB?
 
Firewire is faster, but the thruput would no be used by the CF Card. Firewire is good for Harddrives, digital vids and such....

If you already have a firewire port thats not used and the reader is about the same price it wouldn't matter and you could go firewire. But I wouldn't do it for CF Cards unless it cost me no difference in money just so I could check out the firewire. I currently have no items that would use Firewire...


GL
 
Actually USB is limited to 1.5MB/s Theretical throughput. Some of the newer, faster CF cards have a transfer rate of 2.8MB/s. The extra bandwith of Firewire would help there. Keep in mind, CF cards get tweaked to be faster with each successive batch, just like CPU's and they have gotten MUCH faster since the format originally came out.
 
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