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Customer Reviews:
My mini disc changer
I have a Honda that supports a flash card in the stereo. I just needed an adapter,couldn’t find one in town at all. I came across the site when googled the memory card,received it quickly & safe. My laptop does not support a flashcard so I did have to buy a reader/writer. I downloaded all my CD’s now I can enjoy all my music. Nice for LONG DRIVES!

PC card adapter purchase
I received my PC card adapter in perfect condition, took me a little while to get but atleast I’ve got it. Thanks to amazon

Ultra Slow Compact Flash PCMCIA adapter
Transfer rates were around 1Mb per second - too slow for good video playback. I don’t understand why SanDisk would offer a slow 16 bit PCMCIA (Type I) card that you could never take advantage of Ultra or Extreme compact flash memory? If you want to transfer large files to or from compact flash memory, purchase the 32 bit PCMCIA (Type II) adapter made by Viking InterWorks. With the Viking adapter, a 6 GB of iTunes folder was moved in about 5 minutes (~20Mb/sec)) to a 16Gb Extreme III compact flash card.

Warning: 16-bit adapter cards are OLD TECHNOLOGY! Stick with 32-bit
I don’t know why these types of cards are still on the market–they are old, slow, and obsolete. Instead, search for 32-bit Cardbus adapters such as the ones made by Viking, Delkin, or Lexar, which are many times faster but not much more expensive. And, they fit in the same PC card slot on most laptops made in the last decade. The 32-bit cards I have used are even a bit faster than USB 2.0 and Firewire.

You can spot 32-bit cards by the gold strip at the top of the card. No gold strip? Then prepare to wait an hour or more for your data to transfer, while your laptop is brought to its knees. The old silver cards may be fine for storing and playing mp3s, or may be needed for laptops made more than 10 years ago, but any large amount of data–such as GBs of photos or video– will take quite a while to copy over. Why would you want a reader that is SLOWER than your flash media?

ultra S_L_O_W compact flash card reader
I bought this card reader to use with my laptop so I wouldn’t have a USB reader hang off the side, just waiting to get broken off. To my disappointment, this reader is incredibly slow. Slow enough to make it not worth the money, no matter how little it costs.

Here’s some specs on my analysis:

* Test was performed with a Dell Latitude D630 w/ Intel Core2Duo Laptop

* Memory card used was a Sandisk Extreme III 8GB Compact Flash

* Transfer of thirty-six (36) 10.2 megapixel images (~4MB each), total size of ~160MB

** From D630 to Extreme III CF card via PCMCIA, the transfer took approx 5 minutes

** From Extreme III CF card to D630 via PCMCIA, the transfer took approx 4 minutes

** From D630 to Extreme III CF card via generic USB 2.0 reader, the transfer took approx 20 seconds

** From Extreme III CF card to D630 via generic USB 2.0 reader, the transfer took approx 20 seconds

Just consider, this was only 36 photos (~160MB total). If I travel with my laptop and take hundred or thousands of photos and needs to backup or download them, I would most definitely need to bring my power supply. And when you travel, bringing more stuff to weigh you down is the last thing you want to do.

So, with results like these, its clear why I’m in the process of returning this item. I hope you all think twice before ordering this reader.