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Thunderbolt Card Reader?
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Stick with USB. Memory cards are slow, FW or TB won't make transfers any faster. A TB card reader would cost over $100 to produce due to the cost of the TB electronics, so it won't happen soon.
Edit: Just read that CF 6.0 has speeds up to 167Mbytes/s, faster than both USB2 and FW800. I still wouldn't expect TB in anything other than RAID storage for another year.
Stick with USB. Memory cards are slow, FW or TB won't make transfers any faster. A TB card reader would cost over $100 to produce due to the cost of the TB electronics, so it won't happen soon.
Edit: Just read that CF 6.0 has speeds up to 167Mbytes/s, faster than both USB2 and FW800. I still wouldn't expect TB in anything other than RAID storage for another year.
If you can find the SanDisk version, it works great. I have a pair; one in my bag and one on my desk.
I have two of the Sandisk readers as well - excellent kit. I also have a Delkin Devices FW800 card reader that is very quick and a USB2.0 Lexar UDMA reader and with 60MB/s Sandisk Extreme cards the FW800 readers are very nearly twice as fast as the USB 2.0.