Review on Optimal Shop Digital Adapter Converter by Dewey Galyon

Okay, first of all the adapter is the most popular when it comes to speed. It uses a KTC FC1307A SD-to-IDE bridge/controller chip (developed around 2007 according to the datasheet), which means your maximum transfer rate is limited to 25MB/s. This may sound low to you (your average Sandisk Ultra 1/Ultra 3 cards can often run at 50-80MB/s), but remember that these adapters are typically used to spin 4200rpm mechanical hard drives replace, whose maximum speed is often between 17 and 25 MB. /sec linear stable - You use it to replace whatever is being replaced with something cheaper and more technically fault-tolerant. Not quite. You really want to power on the SD card from time to time to make sure it hasn't rotted. IT wisdom basically says that you should turn on SD cards once every 6 months to ensure data integrity - more often when the ambient temperature in your house is higher. Also, if 25MB/s is too low for you, look for an mSATA to IDE44 adapter - they usually have the newer JMicron J20330 chip with a capacity of 80-100MB/s. To do this, you need a spare mSATA drive and an adapter. which is not exactly cheap. However, the fact that the controller chip was designed in 2006, before the high-speed, high-capacity SDXC was available, means you'll run into all sorts of compatibility issues. Discs often do not load properly. Sometimes it's the SD card layout and sometimes it's the BIOS. Sometimes it works just fine, but you'll have a hard time explaining why. Buy additional cards and try different ways to make them work. Sometimes I need to use S2D to create bootable USB drives, or maybe set up a bootable CD-ROM. My HP t5720 thin client hangs on ESCD system update screen on 32/64GB Sandisk SDHC/XC drives (I later used USB CD). Hard drive to boot into the Windows XP installer and successfully installed the OS on one of these 64GB SDXC cards and it booted fine. Maybe the ESCD lock is just the SD card not finding the boot sector or something). the adapter on my Pismo PowerBook doesn't seem to have a problem with the 64GB SD card inside. Another issue seems to be system compatibility with more than one of these adapter cards installed. I installed one in the main IDE bay on my Pismo Powerbook. , but inserting one into an expansion bay IDE adapter doesn't seem to work. I'm not even sure if it's the KeyLargo Southbridge in Pismo not working, the specific SD card not playing, or maybe I have a faulty controller. Oh yes, one more thing. If you intend to use it with a female-to-female IDE cable (e.g. to replace the IDE DOM on a thin client), be sure to clearly label pin 1 as the controller will be disabled. Don't say I didn't warn you.