Interesting. All I know is that my Dell laptop's Expresscard slot (with
Expresscard 54 adapter) reads CF cards faster than the USB port... about
11 MBS vs 8 MBS. I don't know if 11 is the speed of the interface or
the max speed of the card.
Chuck Norcutt
Daniel Sepke wrote:
> Expresscard has two interfaces, one that accesses the PCIe bus and one that
> duplicates a USB 2 connection. As I understand it most Expresscard devices
> currently available hook into the USB connection as the device doesn't a
> faster connection most of the time (think wireless broadband devices, etc.).
>
>
> Memory cards on the other hand are available in both flavors. The Sony EX
> camera that I use at work runs on the PCIe versions as it needs big
> bandwidth to store HD video. That camera will only run on the Sandisk and
> Sony cards that have PCIe. The straight up memory storage cards chips are
> not fast enough either. The SxS cards cost about 5 times as much as the
> memory only ones (the 16Gb card I got last year was $700).
>
> Dan S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck NorcuttSubject: Re: [OM] Image Storage on the Road
>
> If it's truly an Express connection it should be attached to the I/O bus.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
> <snip>
>
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