Tyler Faison Posted April 16, 2013 Report Share Posted April 16, 2013 Just wanted to share my Thunderbolt CF reader that I built. It took some trial and error, but I found a good working solution that really speeds things up at the end of the day. Links and pics through the link. http://texassoundguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/creating-thunderbolt-compact-flash-card.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Orusa Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 Why not just use Apple's Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter with a good FW800 CF reader? Mark O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Faison Posted April 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 Why not just use Apple's Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter with a good FW800 CF reader? Mark O. Short answer...because this is faster. If you do that, why not just use the FW800 reader by itself? Your speeds would be capped at FW800 speeds instead of SATA speeds. Of course everything depends on the CF card you have and if you're able to utilize the high read speeds, but I'd gladly shave off every second that I can since I'm doing a CF dump pretty much every day of my life. It helps me get home/to my room that much sooner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 Well this looks interesting, Tyler. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Lewis Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 Thats awesome Tyler. The show i'm on got me Lacie rugged Thunderbolt drives for offload. Im just popping the SD card from the 664 into my Macbook Pro and copying right over. Super fast, very little time spent offloading at end of day. I am a big believer in the 664 making reality gigs so much easier. Just a more intuitive machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Duffy Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Thanks for this writeup. I just bought the SYBA CF card reader to use USB - standalone, there's some caveats people should be aware of. First off, it's a CF to SATA bridge, then a SATA to USB bridge. This means that although throughput is good (I got 25MB/sec read/ 15MB/sec write on my cards), access time is a little impacted over USB. Also, and more of a caveat - It shows up as a Fixed Hard Drive in the OS, not a removable USB media. This caused a gotcha for me when I formatted a CF using this adapter - it formatted without the "removable media" data set correctly, so my other devices also treated it differently. Tom (TASCAM). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Orusa Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 Short answer...because this is faster. If you do that, why not just use the FW800 reader by itself? Your speeds would be capped at FW800 speeds instead of SATA speeds. Of course everything depends on the CF card you have and if you're able to utilize the high read speeds, but I'd gladly shave off every second that I can since I'm doing a CF dump pretty much every day of my life. It helps me get home/to my room that much sooner. My Retina MacBook Pro doesn't have firewire of any kind, so I have to use an adapter. I have a Sandisk Extreme FW800 CF card reader that is very fast. I feel like the limitation is in the cards. What kind of read speeds do you get with your setup? Mark O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Faison Posted May 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 There's a chart at the bottom of my blog post that gives a good comparison, also seen below. I didn't even have a FW800 reader on hand to test it against. These are all using genuine 3.0 and thunderbolt ports. The only adapters present are in the Thunderbolt adapter itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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