New E Series 64gb card takes DOUBLE the transfer time?

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’d try the transfer with your camera to see if it goes better. Then you can start blaming the card reader.

[Dan Brockett]

I have used the P2 Store as a card reader and it was always glacially slow. I have dumped full 64 GB cards with my PB G4 in 30 minutes flat. This doesn’t explain the difference in times that you are experiencing but I would find a faster way to dump your cards anyway. A cheap PC or used PB G4 for $300.00 would probably alleviate all of your issues. USB is extremely slow when dumping P2 whether through the P2 Store or through the camera.

Dan

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[Chris Li]

Dan,
My G4 Powerbook 1.67gh downloads a 16gb in about 16min. or 1 gb/min. FW800 to a 7200rpm HD.
How can I achieve 2gb/min or about a half hour for a full 64gb dnld? It takes me almost an hour to dnld a 64gb P2 card.

thx,

chris/wash. dc

[Dan Brockett]

Hi Chris:

Hmm…not sure why your setup is so slow compared to mine. I have not yet tried a 64Gb P2 card but my PB can definitely do a 16Gb in less than 8 minutes and a 32GB is about 15 minutes.

I am not even using a 7200 RPM drive and am using FW400, not even 800.

1. How full is the drive?
2. Which OS version and how much RAM are in your PB?

I have never done anything special to the PB, I don’t even use it anymore, it is now my wife’s computer and I only use it when I shoot since my MBP and the Duel stopped playing nice when I updated the MBP to Leopard. PB is, of course, still running Tiger.

Dan

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[Chris Li]

Dan,
I use Leopard,HD Log and verify. I use FW800 bus powered 7200rpm 2.5 drives with nothing else on them in the field. Ram upgraded to max. Perhaps you skip the verification stage? That would save some time.

chris/wash. dc

[Dan Brockett]

Yes, that must be it, I just copy over the files and manually open them to make sure that they play.

Dan

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[Giuseppe Fedele]

The P2 Store P2 Card 64GB reads? Thanks

[Paul Anderegg]

Old thread, but I just tested a 32GB E-Series card against an old 4GB A-Series one.

I rolled 5 minutes of color bars in DVCPRO50 on both cards, then transferred from my camera via USB.

4GB H-Series = 20MB/s
32GB E-Series = 7MB/s

WTF?