Compact Flash SATA?

Has anyone tried anything like this using a SATA connection? And if so, how fast is it compared to usb or firewire?
http://www.addonics.co​m …_memory_reader/​adsacf.asp

Oooh, nice to know thats available. The differing stat speeds are (currently)
SATA 1.5 Gbit/s
SATA 3.0 Gbit/s

As opposed to
USB 2.0 Hi-Speed rate of 480 Mbit/s
Firewire 800 786.432 Mbit/s

There are caveats there, a 'bad' USB controller can significantly slow down USB transfer speeds, etc etc, but a well implemented sata cf reader should be pretty darn fast.

well don't forget that the speed of the transfer also depends on the speed of the compact flash which is below the limits of most modern interface options

Ok, thanks. I was just wondering if there was some kind of catch trying to transfer files like that.

But it certainly would take advantage of the extra speed in the Extreme CF cards without having to purchase the expensive card reader that sells for around $60 (US).

Looks like this will be on my list on my new computer I'm building then!

adam8080 wrote in post #5575325
Has anyone tried anything like this using a SATA connection? And if so, how fast is it compared to usb or firewire?
http://www.addonics.co​m …_memory_reader/​adsacf.asp

Funny you should ask. I've had two (count 'em, two) of these Addonics devices and neither has worked for me. Both were able to read my Ridata CF card ONLY. They could not read Lexar, Sandisk, or Transcend cards (couldn't even detect the presence of media in the drive). I installed the card readers in three different computers, each with a different motherboard and SATA chipset.

Addonics claims to have successfully tested these gizmos with Sandisk and Lexar and I'm not going to say they're fibbing. All I can say is that I could not get the &*#&(!@ things to work properly.

I returned one of the readers and kept the other in hopes that one of these days I'll find the magic combination of components and OS that will make it work.

In the wake of my Addonics fiasco, I bought a Sandisk firewire CF reader. It's very fast and it actually works.

Dave F.

Hmm.. Thanks for the report.

Interesting, one of the 'hats' I wear at my current position is hardware testing, wonder if I could get work to spring for a couple for 'testing' for some of our embedded applications.

Go for it!