CF Card Reader

Your probably right but I wouldn't just assume that. I haven't checked the specs but It's possible a USB card reader would actually be limited by the speed of the CF you are using rather than the USB pipeline. If thats the case you wouldn't see an improvment with a SATA connection.
 
You are right. I looked up the speed. A 233x card is about 35Mbps and USB 2.0 can do 480Mbps.

Although I do like that this can be used to boot off a CF card. Might be cool to keep a OS loaded on one as a backup if your main drive fails or goes corrupt. Plus it can be built into the tower vs a different peripheral.
 
I'm not 100% sure..... But I don't think all card readers are created equal. Seems to me when the SanDisk Extreme lll card came out, It was recommended to get a current SanDisk card reader. I want to think it was to get maximum download speed.

frisco
 
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