Memory Card Readers and Memory Cards
Sequential Read Rates and Random Access Times
Product Samples are Welcome
If you are a manufacturer or distributor of card readers and/or memory cards,
you are welcome to send free samples.
Due to bad experience in the past, I will not accept any offers for loaning of
card readers or cards. I know that especially cards of higher capacity have a certain value,
but my time is precious, too.
Please contact me for details.
Readers
Most of my card readers are USB 2.0. The Subnotebook used for testing only has 4-pin FireWire,
which means that host powered FireWire readers will not work. If you can offer a workaround for using FireWire readers with 4-pin FireWire connections, you are welcome to report.
I have recently bought a CardBus S-ATA controller, so I could try whether it works with
S-ATA card readers.
However, I am mainly interested in testing
- USB 2.0 Card readers
- PCMCIA-ATA to USB 2.0 adapters
- CF to ATA adapters
- PCMCIA to ATA adapters
Cards
I still did not have the chance to test the following microdrives
- Seagate CF Photo Hard Drive (5.0GB)
- Seagate CF Photo Hard Drive (2.5GB)
- Hitachi Microdrive 3k4-2 (2GB)
- GS-MagicStor 1044C CF+ Type II (4.4GB)
- GS-MagicStor 1022C CF+ Type II (2.2GB)
- GS-MagicStor 22C CF+ Type II PLUS (2.2GB)
- Transcend TS2GCFHD (2.2GB)
Besides that, I am willing to test any of the following cards
- CompactFlash cards (type I & II) of 512MB and more
- SD cards of 128MB and more
- MM cards of 64MB and more
- SmartMedia of 128MB
- xD-Picture Card of 64MB and more
- MemoryStick of 64MB or 128MB
- MemoryStick Pro of 256MB and more
If common card sizes increase, I will remove the lowest capacity types from this list.
See the overview.