One exception to that rule is if you can find one of the Minolta CD-10 SCSI card readers that are currently being liquidated by many different vendors. I have it plugged into my Windows PC using an Adaptec AHA-1510 SCSI controller I had for an old tape drive. This is the same unit as the MicroTech DPA-P external SCSI reader but it sells for less because Minolta is clearing them out. Minolta had bought them to sell as an accessory with their RD-175 ActionCam but never really sold many of them. It will transfer files from the memory card to your hard drive as fast as you transfer files from one folder to another.
Nothing beats a SCSI device for speed, it is many times faster than a parallel port device.
It handles all sizes of PC cards including Type III hard drives. But the CD-10 is getting difficult to find however, because it is a closeout item. Steve's Digicam Online, Inc.