Addonics eSATA card reader

I read mixed reviews, but as my new laptop had neither a firewire nor cardbus slot, I thought it was worth a shot. And I'm happy to report that it's working for me. I'm on an HP notebook with Windows 7 64-bit.

Just wanted to put a good review out there... I will update after I've used it a bit on speed and continued reliability.

I'd be interested to hear about the speed, and if it hot swaps well. I considered it, but I think i'll just wait for USB 3.0 readers and get a USB 3.0 PCI card.

I'm interesting in a esata reader as well because I just bought an esata expresscard for my mbp.

First report:

7.62 GB transferred from a 15 MB/S card in 12 minutes, 24 seconds to an external USB hard drive.
7.62 GB transferred from a 15 MB/S card in 7 minutes, 58 seconds to internal hard drive.

I thought I was using a 30 MB/s card... I'll try that next and report back on the speed.

Hot swap was successful.

eSATA can often use the USB2 controller on Laptops..

I get 15MB/sec on my USB 2 reader.

interesting review here > http://michaelfurtman.​com …ard%20Reader%20​Review.htm

http://www.techpowerup​.com …Sata_USB_DigiDr​ive/3.html

looks like a promising card reader, and pretty decent price on ebay as well

Bobster wrote in post #11146710
interesting review here > http://michaelfurtman.​com …ard%20Reader%20​Review.htm

Yes, 60 MB/s is more like a decent download speed. And it's about as high as you'll get with a SATA2 hard drive to write the photos to.

My hard drives can do 120MB/sec, plus windows will use a disk cache too.

Just finished downloading my first wedding. Sata card reader was fast! I didn't have a timer handy, but the estimates were about 4 1/2 minutes to transfer 8GB and it seemed like it might have been even faster than that. No problems with hot swapping.

Addonics eSATA card reader does not work with Win 7x64

I installed one of these card readers...

http://www.addonics.co​m …_memory_reader/​adsacf.asp

My motherboard/BIOS recognizes it, but Windows 7 will not. (Windows XP would not either.)

This is a fairly new desktop system with the latest SATA drivers running in ACHI mode. All the other SATA drives are working beautifully, especially my lovely new SSD!

Any hints on how to make this potentially wonderful card reader work?

Thanks,

Mike
Vancouver, WA

brownmichael wrote in post #11406776
I installed one of these card readers...

http://www.addonics.co​m …_memory_reader/​adsacf.asp

My motherboard/BIOS recognizes it, but Windows 7 will not. (Windows XP would not either.)

This is a fairly new desktop system with the latest SATA drivers running in ACHI mode. All the other SATA drives are working beautifully, especially my lovely new SSD!

Any hints on how to make this potentially wonderful card reader work?

Thanks,

Mike
Vancouver, WA

you have to re-boot each time you swap the card, unless your motherboard allows for hotswap SATA, i found mine to be intermittent so pulled it from my computer

My motherboard does allow hot swapping of SATA hard drives. Works great.

I ran across a post in a computer forum that claims the Addonics SATA card reader only works with certain SATA controllers which have a particular chip. The brand of chip is SI, so I guess my Intel controller is not going to work.

I had the interanal Addonics and it was fast but forced both windows 7 and Ubuntu into very very very very long startups. Windows was greater than 15 minutes, Linux (Ubuntu) was very long too and produced drive read issues.
Card read worked fine once system booted. I contacted tech support and they said it was a known problem and they didnt know what to do.

I sent it back...... but after going through my 4th cheap esata internal card reader from NewEgg I am considering the external Addonics now. The cheap ones from NewEgg just dont last more than a few uses before the pins bend or the units quit working all together.

Does anyone know if its a standard esata connection or if if requires a powered sata port?