Im toping out on both USB2 and firewire at betweem 4-5mb/s.
The max speed of my compacflah card.

Seems to be true.
Anyone running a faster device?

Eyron
"Eugene" <i_dont_want_spam@nospamthanks.com> wrote in message
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> Eyron wrote:
> > Is there a reason to go to USB2 with todays Compac flash cards?
> > The fastest cards I think top out at 4mb/s???
> > Nowhere near the USB2,s nominal rate and about the same rate as USB1.1.
> >
> > Whats the point?
> >
> Have you by any chance actually tried comparing a USB 2 and USB 1.1
> reader? I can assure you that USB 2 readers are *much* faster, even when
> using standard CF cards.
>
> I suspect that (as someone else suggested) you are talking about write
> speed. Most of the time a card reader is only used for reading, I very
> rarely have a need to write anything to a CF card with my PC.
>