Thunderbolt card readers and HD's

I'm a photographer, so do a lot of image downloading to the Air, and a lot of backups to external drives.
Have been keeping my eye out for compact flash/SD card readers and external hard drives or SSD's that are Thunderbolt compatible but nothing yet.
Anyone know of upcoming devices?

I had the opportunity to see the Pegasus R4 in action a week or so back at a trade show and it's incredibly fast, it absolutely destroyed USB in side-by-side and made even FireWire 800 look pokey. But as you can see they've very cost prohibitive for the typical "consumer" when it comes to storage solution. Because it's such new tech and only being actively deployed by Apple I really feel like we're still 4-6 months out from seeing consumer grade storage solutions with Thunderbolt in the $99-$499 price range. Heck, I rarely even see FW800 externals outside of Apple Stores unless it's a triple interface drive from LaCie.

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sorry to use up some bandwidth on the forum, but I thought I'd post this info since there are a few photographers on the forum. Apparently Mac 10.8.5 update has broken some compatibility with CF card readers. Tried it on 2 Macs, both have 10.8.5 and both had errors and would not complete the copy.
Just returned from a shoot and thought I might have an issue. CF card would not read from either of the CF readers (Omniflash) that I have always used without any problem.
Tried it on a PC and all was fine. The only thing that I found that backs 10.8.5 as the culprit, is the following from Sonnettech:
http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=455&expand=_a2&action=b679#b679
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I am in charge of a school district running about 75 client macs, all PPC G5 and Intel mixed. I have been having reports that the Lexar card readers for the digital photography lab sometimes do not auto-mount the media that is inserted into them. Apple System Profiler detects the card reader, but when the card is stuck into the reader it does not appear in finder at all to retrieve the files.
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I have the user accounts managed through Workgroup Manager on my Xserve, and I have it set so that they have access to auto-mount media (unless I'm missing a setting somewhere. But i'd think if the setting was off, the reboot wouldn't matter and it wouldn't fix the issue).
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I have an old G4 Power mac, and my kids have iMac G5s. We all run 10.3.9, and have SD card readers, and none of them work at all. Does Apple acknowledge that SD cards do not work with Macs, and/or was this fixed in 10.4? We are looking to replace our computers, and this is a deal breaker.

Okay, I did a little more research, and here's what I have found.
(Yes, I'm talking about a USB card reader.)
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My kids both have a reader and a 2GB card for their iMacs. They usually mount okay, but not always. Sometimes it takes a restart.
The 2GB cards are all a funky off-brand, "Adata." The 16MB card is a Canon.
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USB, CF and Card Readers

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I've got a Mid-2010 Macbook Pro with an interesting little issue.
I have a Canon 7D that uses a CF card. I have a few 8GB and 16GB 600x CF cards and a couple different readers. When I plug in any card in any reader on the Macbook...
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I can open a terminal and do a /bin/cp from the card to anywhere on the system and it's fine.
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Strange? Any ideas?
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Sun Ray, windows & and USB card readers

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I read, or was told that the new version of the SR software (version 5) should enable more USB devices to work in combination with Sun Ray.
We currently serve our users with windows via SunRay - and it works very well. The only issue being that we need to get usb card readers - such as the acr38 to work with SunRay. Until now this has not worked. Does anyone know whether this is currently possible or whether this should be possible using SR 5?
thanks and regards,
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Hi,
Do you provide terminal server desktop or a VDI based 'XP' desktop to your users ?
the next early access release (EA2) will support additional USB support; it seems only for VDI based 'xp' desktops; so that might solve your USB card reader request if you provide XP desktops.
The current PC/SC release does support some kind of second card reader attached to the sunray. Never looked indepth into this feature but i did see it read the card from the additional reader with the added debug tools.
Do you actually need this second card reader? Maybe you could use the PC/SC passthrough to windows to read the your card in the windows backend losing the second card reader.
if all else fails you could try a network USB hub. This device is attached to the network and your reader is attached to the device. Then you use a client on the windows environment to connect to the device; hence connect to your USB reader. The client on the windows environment that works with the device i've tested was only able to run just once on a terminal server.. so this is not a very scaleable solution if you run terminal server.
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Ipod camera connector and compatability with card readers

I have ipod classic video with ipod camera connector. It will not recognise a card reader and unfortunately my camera won't connect to the USB cabel anymore. How do I find out what card readers are compatible or is it the Sandisk Extreme III card?

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I wanted to add to this...I did plug in a CF card the other day and that was recognized. I then tried my external hard drive directly again in a front USB port and it worked for a while (an hour or so). Then it suddenly was not there anymore as if I'd ejected it even though I didn't. Tried to put it back in and nothing. This tells me it may be a hardware problem since it "recognized" it for a bit. It's very frustrating.

How do I stop organizer to automatic import everything from camera and card readers?

I want myself to decide what and when something shall be added to organizer.

Hi,
You don't say which version of elements you are using or which operating system you are running so I'll give some general answers.
Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Camera or Card Reader and change the Download Option to Advanced.
Now when you get images from the card, it will display a preview of each image and you select/de-select each one before telling it to download the selected ones.
If you can't turn on the advanced dialog, your screen depth in pixels may be too small.
If you don't want the downloader to be started when you insert the card then the operating system needs a tweak.
The other thing to look at is watched folders, you may want to turn the facility off.
Brian

Z2 Tablet and Card readers

Guys is there any items or know hardware that enables you to use Camera full size SDS cards with the Tablet. Id like to save the photos onto the device and view them.
Also does the Z2 read RAW file images
thanks

Hi and welcome to the community! Since you're new please be sure that you have checked out our Discussion guidelines.
This should be possible using any standard USB SD card reader and a USB OTG cable.
The tablet doesn't have builtin support for RAW but i see there are 3:rd party apps in Google Play that can open them.
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When will PayPal have Chip and PIN card readers? (EMV?)

Does PayPal plan to have a card reader that will be able to accept the new chip cards and comply with new EMV standards?

As usual, it is impossible to find out things like this on the PP website but apparently they announced that they are coming out with one for the US soon. Check out http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7682-paypal-here-emv.html I noticed that when you are logged out you can go to https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader and voila! you can order one now... but it requires that you set up an another account. Of course, this doesn't seem to be available anywhere on the website when you are logged in. Doesn't Bezos ever hire people who think logically and systematically to implement this kind of stuff or does he only hire crazy guys like himself? His craziness is great for starting things but he needs better people to manage the implementations of his crazy ideas.

SD Card Issues and Sound Issues

Hello all,
I bought my Xperia Z2 probably 2-3 months ago and I have to say I do love this phone.
However I have come across a few issues that seems to be, not so common as I cannot find any solutions online (Which is why I'm here).
I am having 2 issues:
1st Issue:
SD Card Issue, this is a funny one as I have not been able to identify what actually causes this issue. Now this all started (or when I started to realise the issue) when I changed some settings in the Camera App. I saw that it was saving photos to "Internal Storage" and since I specifically bought a new SD card for the Xperia Z2, I wanted to store photos on the SD card instead.
So I changed it to SD Card Storage and all is well (At least, that is what I thought).
After taking some photos one day, I got home and wanted to preview them, in the photos app and Album (Sony's Photo Previewer) it shows that the photo is corrupted or missing (Depending on which app I'm using). This really annoyed me as the photos I took seems to be all lost and corrupted. So I tried to use a file explorer (Including File Commander) to find the actual file and open it, but it seems to have the same problem. I get this grey background with a picture of a mountain with like a thunderbolt sign (Broken sign).
Following this, I have also tried to copy some video files onto the SD card and it has been giving me troubles too. I tried to copy videos onto the SD card in 2 ways, first way is to take the SD card out, connect it to a SD card reader and plug that into the computer. After it finished copying onto the SD card, the files would just disappear (I use computers a lot and this was very surprising and new to me... It's like the SD card deleted the files right after it was copied, or maybe even 'hid' the files).
So since that method didn't work I thought I would try putting the SD card back into the phone and connect the phone to the computer then use Sony's MediaGO (Computer App) to transfer the videos and it sort of worked this time. I copied 14 videos over and only the first 2 videos are working, the others are all "Media is missing" or of some sort. I checked the video's format and they are all either .avi or .mp4 which I don't think is a problem as the first 2 videos are in .avi so surely other .avi videos would work too? Guess not...
So it seems like I am having troubles with Video and Photos on the SD card as music is working 100% fine. Used Media GO to copy the music on and it's all working wonderfully.
Some of you might suggest formatting the SD Card, I will say I have... I have tried the above methods before formatting AND after formatting (Formatting using Xperia Z2, or shall I say "erase").
The SD card I have is Sandisk's 64GB Ultra (I bought this to anticipate 4K or at least 1080p video recordings).
If the issue here is SD Card compatibility and I was silly enough to not have seen that prior, then I would gladly admit it's my fault and be happy that the solution would simply mean to buy another SD card.
But that said, I highly doubt that would be the issue due to the fact that the SD card is made for performance (Not the best performance as the Extreme and Extreme Pro range are a lot better) and the card is new.
2nd Issue:
Now this issue is not as bad as the first issue, it's something to do with the sound. I understand the phone has 3 sound controls, one for the Ringtone for when you get a notification or/and phone call, one for Media and one for Alarm.
What I do is I have the Ringtone volume sitting at around 50% and Media will be dependent as I change it when I open an app but the issue I've been having is this:
If I open an app (Mainly games that has sound/music) and I change the Media volume to say 70% or even 20%, whenever I get a notification whilst in-app the notification volume seems to be at 100% no matter what I do with the media volume. This is weird as my default Ringtone/Notification volume is sitting very low at around 50% or even if I change it to 20%.
What am I missing here? Any thoughts?
With the above 2 issues, last resort would be to factory reset my phone but will be willing to do it if there's a high chance of the issue getting fixed.
Your thoughts will be greatly received as right now I'm just lost and not sure what to do with the issues. I'm slowly getting the feeling that I should just give up on the phone and use it for phone calls, music and forget about the whole photo/video taking which is very sad as I love the phone's photo/video taking features.
Solved!
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Hello Rickard,
Thank you for the link, I have started the test and 10 minutes into the test the speed for writing dropped. Anyways I only managed to get through in writing 8GB of data then I gave up. I then started to verify that 8GB of data that was written on the SD Card.
I have to say, it does seem like that SD Card is defective
Thank you for providing the link, what I will do now is get another SD Card and see if the problem is still there.
If the problem goes away I would consider my 1st issue being solved
However I am still not sure about my 2nd issue as this is not related to the SD card. Even without the SD card in the phone I seem to be experiencing this problem.
It's frustrating sometimes as if I'm trying to keep the volume down and play a game I can't because any notifications that comes through will be at 100% volume.
Perhaps there's a setting I'm missing?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.

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My USB CF Card reader is not mounting on my 2.5 GHZ Intel Core i5 iMac anymore. It was last week and worked fine to get pictures from my camera. Now it won't mount. I have tried another card reader and the same problem exists. Also tried different cards..

Hi
My USB CF (Compact Flash) Card reader is not mounting on my 2.5 GHZ Intel Core i5 iMac anymore.
Last week it worked fine to get pictures from my camera but now it won't mount at all.
I ejected it in the correct way rather than just disconnecting it but now i cannot get it to remount!
I cannot even see it in the disk utility or system profiler.
I have tried another card reader (a brand new one bought today) and the same problem exists. I've also tried different cards to see if that made a difference and they still arent being picked up on the Mac.
I have done all the usual things like rebooting, unplugging all other USB devices and then trying but nothing has worked.
I'm a photographer and I'm at my wits end here. I know the cards are fine as i have been using them without issue and they are also new.
Note: If I plug the camera in directly to the Mac, the Mac picks it up just fine as it always has done. Its just the card readers that it wont pick up anymore.
If anyone has any ideas at all other than the following (my so called friends advice) you'd earn my undting love:
Buy a PC
Use the camera (Thats why i bought the reader in the first place - importing RAW files from the camera is SLOW!)
Replace your CF cards (I have three 8GB cards two of which i had never used til today and they dont work either!)
Buy a new card reader (this is the 5th one in two days - none work on the Mac)
Many thanks in advance!
LIsa

OK, restart in Safe Mode, this will clear some caches. It's possible one or more is corrupt. To restart in Safe Mode when you hear the start up tone hold down the Shift Key until you see a progress bar. Let it fully boot then restart normally and test.
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