What kind of transfer speed are people getting with this reader?
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The manufacturer does not specify. But I personally had one and used it to transfer large amounts of data from my camera memory flash and it worked pretty decent for me. So well in fact that we were putting them in all of our media machines until just recently, hence the fact that we are selling them on amazon. :) Good Luck
1776246
It's really cheap, so it won't be that great, but it is really fast, however you can only use one card at a time
1776247
I haven't measured the rate, but it seems to go pretty quickly, downloading raw picture files.
476513
Strangely, I've noticed no difference in transfer speeds between them. To me that means that the smaller buffer isn't the weakest link in the transfer.They also removed the blue circular status light from the front of the drive and now it lights up by the USB port.Both 5200 RPM as far as I know. I think the Elite has the slightly faster drives and more buffer size.
640381
I have both and I notice a big difference in both transfer speed as well as loading speeds. Get the 1000x
1233833
I got about 300 MB/s, which is about half of the max speed but it was plenty fast. If you are connecting the USB 3 wire to an external USB 3 hard disk, and not doing hard disk intensive work on your main OS drive, I think you will get about the same rate of transfer speed while moving large files. Good luck!
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I have been transferring upto 15 Gb on the NAS. Frankly, the speed is slow compared to the USB interface. However, considering that it is connecting over the Wi-fi network to the NAS connection might make the transfer longer. However, so far I am not thrilled with the speed of the device. However, since I have the unit only for a few days, more testing is required.
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It claims 3.0 but the read speed is determined by the card you put in it more than the 3.0 USB. I get similar speeds on either bus.
771713
Previous to this I was using a terastation by buffalo. The disk station is a marked improvement over the terastation in transfer performance. I can't tell you a specific transfer rate off the top of my head but it should be only limited by the throughput of the wireless access point which would in this case be the bottleneck. On wired connections I get better than usb2 transfer rates.Good purchase. I found no better device in this price range..
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It appears that the Writing speed is about 5.60 MByte/s and the reading Speed is about 7.37 MByte/s. This is based on some of the tests I was able to run on my PNY Attache III 16 GB USB 2.0.
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Yes. I have a Sandisk Extreme Pro 128GB UDMA7 card rated at 160MB/s. On this reader, I'm getting a whopping 50MB/s. junk.
760880
I think you'll get faster transfers with Gigabit ethernet switch; depending on the write/read speeds, I get even more than 100MB/s via ethernet connection. Also I'm not sure whether one can connect two Macs for file transfer via TB/firewire; I've only tried connecting Macs in this manner for target disk mode and for that it works well.
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Something is not right there. On a wired 1Gbps connection with a single copy I would expect at least 400Mbps, with speeds over 700Mbps on faster switches (efficient internal packet forwarding). That is from testing when I first received the unit (tested with 4 x 5200 RPM Toshiba 160GB in RAID 5, prior to 4 x 7200 RPM Seagate 750GB in SHR I have had in it since then - but I haven't tried that on a fast switch, my home switch seems to max about 500Mbps). For comparison, I've seen speeds close to single line speed (~900Mbps) on a DS713+/DX513 combo. If you are on WiFi, I would run hardwired tests for comparison. Then start troubleshooting your WiFi.
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this will take some time 50 Gbts will take 10 min due to the early 2011 macbook probably having 5400 rpm hard drive so will not get max speed out of the transfer rates still the fastest way probably 3 to 3.5 hours
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I have it hooked to my 2012 macbook pro USB 3.0 and have the card in the laptop off. IT is FAST! 80211.AC I get 117MBps download and 10 mbps upload. I pay for 105/10. That is all wireless.I'm running Mavericks 10.9.3
76290
It is rather confusing. On the link I provided, scroll down to the "Technical Details" part of the page. It reads "Minimum 20MB/ sec sequential read/write speeds." Best of luck!
469158
Appreciate the feedback. What does 30mb per second read mean? Is that from the disk to camera? Or camera to PC? And if I do go lower what will i lose out on? i.e. what potential wil lbe untapped? Sorry...newbie here and appreciate your help.
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I'm not 100% tech savvy, but I think the major difference would be speed, if I'm not mistaken. 3.0 is the latest standard, isn't it? I think the transfer speed makes the difference, in which case I don't mind this one because I don't have any 3.0 USB items....I'm not much help in this matter, I just needed extra ports because I've downsized from a desktop to a laptop temporarily, so when I saw this I just grabbed it. It works quite well for what it's worth. I'm sorry if it this doesn't help.
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SpeedOut_0.5 This little free app will tell you. I used it with this usb 3 express card, and a PNY 128 gig usb 3 flash drive. I only got read speeds of about 70 MB/s and average 45 MB/s, the external power to USB must be plugged in to get this transfer rate (or you get worse than usb 2 transfer rates). In comparison on the same dell E6500 the same usb flash drive gives 25 MB/s read 15MB/s write. So my Renesas uPD720202 based express card is only 3 times faster than usb 2. I am trying to find drivers that might improve this. I understand that this my not be the card itself but the bottleneck may be the nature and version of the expresscard slot on my machine. SpeedOut_0.5 This little free app will tell you. I used it with this usb 3 express card, and a PNY 128 gig usb 3 flash drive. I only got read speeds of about 70 MB/s and average 45 MB/s, the external power to USB must be plugged in to get this transfer rate (or you get worse than usb 2 transfer rates). In comparison on the same dell E6500 the same usb flash drive gives 25 MB/s read 15MB/s write. So my Renesas uPD720202 based express card is only 3 times faster than usb 2. I am trying to find drivers that might improve this. I understand that this my not be the card itself but the bottleneck... » Read More SpeedOut_0.5 This little free app will tell you. I used it with this usb 3 express card, and a PNY 128 gig usb 3 flash drive. I only got read speeds of about 70 MB/s and average 45 MB/s, the external power to USB must be plugged in to get this transfer rate (or you get worse than usb 2 transfer rates). In comparison on the same dell E6500 the same usb flash drive gives 25 MB/s read 15MB/s write. So my Renesas uPD720202 based express card is only 3 times faster than usb 2. I am trying to find drivers that might improve this. I understand that this my not be the card itself but the bottleneck may be the nature and version of the expresscard slot on my machine. « Show Less