Thread: MMCmobile + Card reader - 1500KB/s copy!
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2007-09-11 , 08:10
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hi, there is another option
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6858
I ordered it few weeks ago and it arrived today and simply works. Not sure about SDHC (don't have such card yet) but it reads mmcmobile cards quite fast. This is Kingston 2GB in cygwin in windows XP
Code:
$ dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=16384 count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
163840000 bytes (164 MB) copied, 9.131 s, 17.9 MB/s
Writing files is slower due to FAT filesystem but when measured in windows explorer copying one 41MB file took 6 seconds.

So far I have good experience with dealextreme.com - 2 orders, both arrived and both had everything included and 100% working. They have free shipping for everything without any limits and you can pay by paypal. The only issue is that shipping from HK is quite slow (2 weeks or more). Of course YMMV, this is cheap Chinese stuff so quality may vary, read some reviews there to get the picture.

EDIT: actually it looks like this reader has same chips inside as the Sharkoon one, it has same USB VID & PID and same fake USB serial number (0123456789..), only the case is different (slightly worse IMO) and has only 9 pins connected
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Last edited by fanoush; 2007-09-11 at 08:21.