Which is faster - USB-enabled Lexar card with Jumpshot, or conventional USB2 card reader?

Would like to know which is faster for transfer to PC - a USB-enabled
Lexar card ("850kB/s") with a Jumpshot cable, or conventional USB2 card
reader?

I suspect the reader will be much faster, but what is the real life
experience out there?

 

My *tests* with a Lexar 2Gb 40x card show that the Jumpshot USB
"reader" has a transfer rate of 775kb/sec. My cheapo PNY USB 1.1
reader manages 932kb/sec with the same card. I don't have USB 2.0 but
I do have Firewire and my Addonics Firewire Mini Digidrive reads at
5898kb/sec or 7.6x the Jumpshot.

You might want to review this review of card readers.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6191-6217

 

My 2Gb 40X did.

All the "Professional" series are provided with the Jumpshot USB
reader as far as I can tell.

http://store.digitalfilm.com/index.cfm?category=8

"Includes free JumpShot cable" (and Image Rescue BTW)
1Gb CF Pro Series 32x WA
256Mb CF Pro Series 40x WA
512Mb CF Pro Series 40x WA
2Gb CF Pro Series 40x WA

 

In the US maybe, but not here in the UK - at least mine wasn't. The box
contained a card that referenced an URL from where the free JumpShot cable
could be ordered (which annoyingly doesn't work outside the US anyway).

I only mentioned this because I happen to know that Alan (who I was replying
to) is also in the UK.


Pat

 

I assume you mean that the URL doesn't work outside the US, not the
Jumpshot (a standard USB device). Have you asked Lexar about it? Their
Image Rescue software only works with the Jumpshot reader so if you
bought a "Pro" card I'd make a fuss about it.

I can only think that their Jumpshot lacks patent protection in the UK
or infringes someones UK patent. Strange stuff like that happens
sometimes. I read that the Canon A2-E lacked the manual mode LED
bargraph available in the international EOS 5 version because it
infringed a US patent at the time. This no longer seems to be an issue
because my D60 has it (as does my A2 after it was EOS 5'ed--a firmware
update--by Horizon Electronis in California).