Apple Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter test

[phila]

I just bought the adapter thinking it would speed up transfers from a Lexar FW800 card reader to my 2011 MacBookAir. Unfortunately it is slower than using my existing Lexar USB2 card reader! 

A quick test with a 16GB Lexar 300X CF card with 2.8GB (133 CR2 files) of images:

FW800 = 80 seconds

USB2 = 95 seconds

Still it does give me a separate backup "system" in case something goes wrong with the USB side of things...

[kers]

80 seconds is faster than 95 seconds..I think (?)

still it should be 2x faster at least- with this 50MB(?) card