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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

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

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!

Hey Chet,

easily sorted, I'm glad.

Cheers,
Jan