Very Slow Data Transfer via SSD

[Chet Pope]

Working on a feature shooting 4:3 2.8K 2880 X 2160 for 2K Anamorphic @ 23.976 fps.

Production is using Samsung T5 SSDs for shuttle drives. When I copy the sound files to my RAID in WIn10 I see the speed at 300Megs Sec. or so. When I copy the ALEXA Mini footage it slows down to 22 Megs Sec. So it is taking close to 4 Hours to offload 450 Gigs. Also very slow on the Mac.

At first I thought perhaps the drive is bad. So tried to copy to a different SSD FROM my fast RAID storage and got the same 22 Megs Sec speed.

Is there something I can do to speed up data transfer? The footage was transferring faster from an old usb drive.

thanks

[Jan Heugel]

Dear Chet,

which card reader are you using on which machine?

Sounds like an USB-2 port, are those still around thsese days ?

Best,
Jan

[Chet Pope]

Hi Jan

Problem Solved!

Turns out the new cables I got from Best Buy are crap! Don't but the Insignia branded cables!

I switched back to a cable that came with the Samsung T5 drive and was back to 430 Megs Sec. That one is pretty short so now I need to find a 1 meter cable that has the speed I need.

Onward!

[Jan Heugel]

Hey Chet,

easily sorted, I'm glad.

Cheers,
Jan