Benchmarks demonstrating the wide gulf in speeds between high performance buses and lower performing buses when accessing data on UDMA enabled CompactFlash Cards. As with benchmarks comparing hard disk drives, FireWire consistently beats out USB 2.0 by significant margins for read and write speeds to mass storage devices. With recent UDMA CompactFlash reaching throughputs of Ultra ATA/133 (UDMA...

In 'Creating Fastest Portable RAW Photo Import for Pro-Photojournalists' Synchrotech describes an innovative two headed FireWire 800 to UDMA CompactFlash reader solution using a single FireWire 800 port and no external power supply. This setup allowed sports photographers in the field to simultaneously ingest two UDMA 6 CompactFlash cards into MacBook Pros while maintaining compatibility with p...

Explains role of CardBus bridge chips, provides table of controllers used in Synchrotech product line, and contains some hints on selecting an appropriate reader based on needs.

USB ExpressCards Supported by MicroU2E and MicroU2E-MV, many other USB based ExpressCards should work as well. Synchrotech.

The MacBook Air's port hatch is beautiful, but its diminutive size makes for some USB connection issues. Enter AirQueue, a 20cm (7.75in) USB 2.0 extension cable custom designed to enable USB devices with large or unusually designed connectors to work with the MacBook Air. Furthermore, AirQueue is the only USB 2.0 extender cable certified to work with Synchrotech's MicroU2E USB ExpressCard reade...

Tired of wrangling multiple USB 2.0 hubs? Synchrotech's 13 Port USB 2.0 Hub provides host computers with 13 additional USB ports and allows flexible tiered USB configurations with a single hub! This robust and inexpensive hub runs in self powered mode and provides over current protection at each of its downstream ports. Fully USB 2.0 compliant and USB 1.1 backward compatible, it supports low, f...

The FarSync X.25 M1P v2 adapter has been developed to provide high performance X.25 connectivity for Windows XP and 2000. The 1 port PCMCIA card can utilize lines up to 512 Kbits/s with support for RS232C, X.21 and V.35 network interfaces. The X.25 software has a host of features including ISO Transport (classes 0 to 3), IP over X.25, support for OpenFT FTAM, a WinSock2 compliant Sockets API, a...

CFExpressPro+ PCIe ExpressCard to CompactFlash, the world's first PCIe based ExpressCard to Memory Card reader. Tapping into PCIe 1X 2.5Gbps bandwidth, CFExpressPro+ handles the fastest CompactFlash cards on the market with ease.

Using Elan's Memory Card Explorer software to copy files to PCMCIA PC Card Memory devices such as SRAM and Linear Flash.

Read and write benchmarks with a range of CompactFlash cards under the UDMA 6 capable CFFire800 Pro FireWire 800 to CompactFlash Drive Read-Writer, Synchrotech's fastest CF reader to date.