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15-08-2008, 10:08 AM
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Beware the Robot Mafia
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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Card Reader Designed for Mac Pro
Interesting approach to a card reader for the Mac Pro, the pictures do all the talking:
Don't know where you can buy it, but the manufacturer's website is here: Nervian LLC
It will be out some time in October apparently. No price either. |
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15-08-2008, 10:11 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Yeah, neat way of doing it. Macally I think did something similar with previous towers - USB hubs, etc.
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15-08-2008, 10:30 AM
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Location: North Sydney
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its a shame its white, i dot like the design looks tacky
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15-08-2008, 10:31 AM
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Location: Sydney
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Rob Galbraith's website had info on this yesterday.
His point of note was "the website description indicates the CardReader Pro can "[t]ransfer a gigabyte of data in under 18 seconds," which at over 55MB/second seems impossibly fast based on the write and read throughput capabilities of both memory cards and USB 2.0 today."
Have they over-inflated the transfer speed??
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15-08-2008, 10:34 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: melbourne
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Quote:
Originally Posted by d4mk
its a shame its white, i dot like the design looks tacky
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agreed, would of been nicer if the finish was something more "mac pro-esc"
great idea though. |
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15-08-2008, 10:42 AM
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Pork Hunt
Group: Regulars
Location: Perth
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the white plastic looks bad - do these guys know macpros are silver? I can assure you that speed can not be reaches over usb 2.0, with large files of modern dslr reaching 20Megs and above the usb burst speeds will bottle neck
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15-08-2008, 12:35 PM
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Location: In the Boonies
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I like it! Will consider buying one if the price is right. Plastic doesn't bother me, I imagine the cost would be higher if it was aluminium.
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15-08-2008, 01:31 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: melbourne
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Originally Posted by Macca with a Mac
I like it! Will consider buying one if the price is right. Plastic doesn't bother me, I imagine the cost would be higher if it was aluminium.
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would of even looked nicer if it wasnt alloy, but plastic sprayed silver....
that gives me an idea....i'll post a photo once i finish my spray job ;-) |
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15-08-2008, 01:53 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BLINDER
Rob Galbraith's website had info on this yesterday.
His point of note was "the website description indicates the CardReader Pro can "[t]ransfer a gigabyte of data in under 18 seconds," which at over 55MB/second seems impossibly fast based on the write and read throughput capabilities of both memory cards and USB 2.0 today."
Have they over-inflated the transfer speed??
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They've just looked at the USB2 transfer spec, which maxes out at 480Mbps, which equates to 60MBps. To account for the fact that you can't actually reach the maximum transfer rate, they have said "over 55MBps". It's a load of crap really, since USB has so much protocol overhead that you get nowhere near the raw hardware bit-rate. You won't get anywhere near 55MBps. (this is unlike Firewire, which is hardware arbitrated, allowing you to get transfer speeds that approach the hardware bit-rate)
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15-08-2008, 02:02 PM
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Location: Sydney
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Originally Posted by forgie
They've just looked at the USB2 transfer spec, which maxes out at 480Mbps, which equates to 60MBps. To account for the fact that you can't actually reach the maximum transfer rate, they have said "over 55MBps". It's a load of crap really, since USB has so much protocol overhead that you get nowhere near the raw hardware bit-rate. You won't get anywhere near 55MBps. (this is unlike Firewire, which is hardware arbitrated, allowing you to get transfer speeds that approach the hardware bit-rate)
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Therefore it's blatant false advertising, cause if it can't download it in a real world 18 seconds.... 
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15-08-2008, 02:06 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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And it's fugly.
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