iPod Media Reader Slowness

gsfprez writes "According to an official statement by Belkin over at iPodlounge, the reason it takes 22 minutes to transfer a few pictures from your digital SLR's CF card to your iPod with their $99 iPod Media Reader is that, well, that's how they designed it. They wanted to 'address the needs of the largest percentage of owners of digital cameras and iPods,' because -- and let's be honest -- when you want to transfer 128 megs of pictures from your $200 digital camera, you think '$600 worth of iPod and media reader please!,' and not $14 flash readers." Belkin did say they are trying to work out a solution with Apple, perhaps in the iPod firmware, but it seems the problem may be with the design of the reader itself.

Comments

Re:Is there a limit on the cards themselves?

[gsfprez]

no.

there are already CF Firewire adaptors out there.. CF can go really fast...

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare/

this shows that moost cards can write around 2MB/sec and read almost twice that speed...

its an issue with the reader that its only going 300kb/sec... as even the cheapest cards can go about 2000kb/sec.