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Greg Schneider
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p.1 #1 · Troubleshooting slow card reader speeds

Recently purchased a Transcend 1000x card. Noticed that with my Lexar Pro USB3 reader that write speeds are great (75MB/s or so), but download/read speeds are terrible, to the tune of 5MB/s or so. My Sandisk cards are perfectly fine, and my Extreme Pro runs at 75MB/s for both read/write.

Any ideas on where to begin? With components from two manufacturers it's unlikely either will be overly helpful.

Feb 19, 2013 at 08:44 PM

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p.1 #2 · Troubleshooting slow card reader speeds

Never mind! Apparently card readers actually have firmware updates. Nice and zippy now. Hope this helps someone else.

Feb 19, 2013 at 08:57 PM

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p.1 #3 · Troubleshooting slow card reader speeds

My Transcend 128GB CF 1000x cards work with very good speed in my Lexar Pro USB 3 reader

Feb 19, 2013 at 10:07 PM

Greg Schneider
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p.1 #4 · Troubleshooting slow card reader speeds

Mine does too

Once I updated the reader's firmware.

Feb 19, 2013 at 10:08 PM

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p.1 #5 · Troubleshooting slow card reader speeds

I have a Kingston USB 3.0 reader and I couldn't even get it to read either my Lexar 1000x or 800x. I actually had a new reader ordered when I realized it had a firmware update and that fixed things. Who knew?

Feb 27, 2013 at 04:34 PM


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